But what I can’t stand is commenters saying that anyone and everyone possessing as much money as him is equally evil. Basically the equivalent of so many school “Zero tolerance” policies.
The existence of billionaires while millions of people are starving and homeless is the evil those commenters are pointing to.
Almost as if those people are upset about a system that valorizes and encourages immense wealth inequality, and not, like, which people get to be billionaires.
It’s not a rhetoric that was used before that much. Electing republicans was always a little bit correlated with stupidity but not like: Go full Trumpler/Hitler, full on conspiracy
You must not be old enough to remember the 2008 election, then. People were accusing Obama of being the literal antichrist, and was among the first to prominently feature conservative conspiracy theorists on national news (Don was calling in to talk shows to accuse Obama of being a Kenyan Muslim and demanding his birth certificate, then his long-form).
Maybe in hindsight it's hard to make a comparisons, but every election since then has represented the same choice between 'sane' democrats and 'crazy' conservatives. You can only have so many of those before they start to feel like the norm.
It's because the democrats simply cannot fund-raise on the kind of populist progressive policy Americans actually want.
Democrats are up schitt's creek without a paddle - they can't fund-raise without the support of the large donor-class, and their increasingly populist progressive base are simply not satisfied by the kind of economic policies those donors are desperate to preserve.
If democrats stay this course they will never hold more than 45% of congress again and only win the white house maybe once every 3 or 4 terms.
This was one of, if not the easiest, election we’ll ever have in our lives
If you honestly believe this then the next 50 years are going to be a WILD ride for you
The bottom line is America isn’t going to jeopardize their allegiance with Israel. They’re our most important ally in the Middle East.
Liberals will never, for an instant, ask themselves why Israel is such an important ally - not even when confronted with a choice between standing behind them literally committing a genocide and allowing a felon rapist take office.
'We can't abandon our ally' is the most lazy lie the state department has ever successfully sold their citizens completely unchallenged right next to 'we're looking for WMD's'
Biden had been sitting below 40% approval basically since 2022, they had plenty of time to realize they needed a stronger candidate (OR he had plenty of time to address the concerns of protestors). Instead he waited until the last minute and he pressured Harris to keep his platform.
If you want someone to blame, i'd start there.
It’s sad that people rather don’t vote, and accept the fact that the states drift towards an autocratic system, than just vote for the lesser evil (or engage themselves politically).
Maybe it's sad, sure, but it's far from unusual. In the US, average eligible voter turnout fluctuates between 50-65%. In 2020 it was 65.3% (the highest ever recorded), and in 2024 it was 63.5%, the second-highest. Eligible voters end up not voting for a bunch of reasons, but the biggest reason is usually because they (rightly) feel like the choice has little actual impact on their day-to-day life. Even if you're relying on the 'most important election of our lifetime' motivation (the same rhetoric that's been used for the last 5-6 elections at least), many of those people are white middle-lower-class adults - those people don't believe they'd be the ones targeted by mass deportations or political imprisonment anyway. Granted, that's a short-sided reason not to vote, but let's not act surprised by low-income americans having a bit of an optimism bias (since they are consistently the largest pool of eligible voters).
You simply cannot expect every eligible voter to turnout for you if you aren't giving them compelling reasons to do so. But even in relative terms, the 2024 election was still only 1.7% behind the highest-ever turnout for a presidential election in our lifetime - american voters certainly did turn out, and many who abstained from voting were engaged. The problem is that they no longer believe the democrats actually represent their interests, and so went shopping elsewhere or didn't vote at all (or split their ticket). Blaming those voters without asking yourself why there were more of them this election is nothing more than political masturbation.
And just a reminder that the democratic party does actually have members in its caucus that have a higher than 60% approval rating nationwide, but for some reason they chose not to run those candidates
Maybe not, but instead they actively avoided their constituents
If they had run a primary, there would have been far more air time on the issues voters were upset about instead of the neutered politics they ended up running on
No, there should have been a primary.
Democrats' inability to address what voters were actively demanding is why not enough people turned out for them.
Even in political terms, snubbing the Students for Justice in Palestine at the convention and refusing to let them speak was possibly the worst campaign decision of the last decade.
Right, Harris was a good candidate, that's why her primary campaign lasted all the way to december of 2019.
China is very much a socialist economy