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According to the Democratic Party, the election they just lost in a humiliating landslide was the most important election in anyone’s lifetime, a last-ditch effort to protect democracy itself from Trump’s incipient authoritarianism. Out of the entire population, they could only choose one person to be their champion, to go head-to-head against Donald Trump and stop his new fascist cacocracy from becoming reality. The lives and welfare of millions—billions!—depended on their making the right choice. And who did they pick? One of the least popular politicians in the country, the goofy cackling woman who says things like ‘It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day,’ who seems mildly but permanently xanned, who moves through the world like a pat of half-melted butter. For the Democrats to lose one election to Donald Trump by nominating an obviously terrible candidate is an honest mistake. Two, and something’s up. The question isn’t why Harris lost to Trump—why was she ever in a position to lose to him in the first place?
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The reason Kamala Harris lost is the same as the reason she was the candidate to begin with: the Democratic Party is allergic to democracy. It’s the instrument of a particular form of class power; its role is basically disciplinary. When it comes to an actual crisis, all it knows how to do is coil in on itself, breathe in its own fumes, suck itself off until completion. The party knew that Joe Biden’s brains kept running out of his nose and into his morning coffee, but they kept pretending until it was far too late that he was running laps around the White House lawn and solving new problems in theoretical physics in his spare time. They really seemed to think that people wouldn’t notice what was right in front of them, or maybe they simply didn’t care. And when people did notice, when Biden stretched his arm too wide at the first debate and all the stuffing came out, the party made sure his overthrow and replacement went as smoothly and as seamlessly as possible. No messy primaries, no ideological bickering, just a slick, stage-managed show. They’re very good at politics too. -
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But these words have meaning separate from the political spectrum of the nation in which they are operating. Take Harris and regard her policy platform (what little there is of it beyond 'the other guy is bad') and it is not a left platform.
In fact, we don't even have to talk in abstracts here we can just run back to 2016 to see what the concrete differences between a left candidate (Bernie Sanders (who would've won)) and a centrist (Hillary Clinton, loser) look like. At which point it becomes apparant that the left, as distinct from the centre, has more to offer than:
'it will be better trust me bro' or broad philosophical concepts like 'democracy is at stake'
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Clinton also went for a broad church approach despite going hard against the right wing of the Republican party. She intentionally tried to appeal to an imaginary subset of Sensible Republicans. She, like Harris, is a classic centrist and can't help but try to appeal to both sides. Which means all they have is vibes, and can't really meaningfully appeal to anyone.
As a side note: Biden didn't step down, he was pushed. If you're going to push your current candidate to their death, maybe have someone lined up who isn't a shoo-in for the same kind of hiding you got 4 years prior. Getting rid of Biden was an act of blind panic with zero strategy behind it. Not saying that retaining Biden would have been any better, but maybe someone in the party should have thought about this shit in advance given the stakes involved.
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This.
Fuck the Democrats. A bunch of losers who have nothing to offer. Already had one shot across the bows with the first Trump presidency, and their response to that was to do nothing to meaningfully improve the lives of normal americans. This is on them.
Saw the win coming from a hundred miles away but doesn't make it any less depressing this morning.
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This is good #content
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Garmin: searching for phone
Phone: connected to garmin
One of you cunts is a liar and I don’t know which one of you it is but get fucked