Why she deserved to lose: Gaza genocide
Why she actually lost: voters inappropriately blaming democrats for the high inflation in 2021-2023
- (it wasn't really Biden's fault or the democrats' fault, it was a global issue and pretty much every country has dealt with high inflation in the last few years. The US's inflation has been about average internationally, maybe even a bit lower than average.)
Why this sucks:
- since Gaza protest voters weren't actually a difference maker, there's not as much opportunity for us to agitate about it as we would've liked. Liberals will probably be dismissive of the argument that Harris lost because of her position about Gaza, and they'll be right; it just doesn't really hold up.
- the liberal smugness about ignorant voters that we're surely going to see in the next few weeks is... actually kind of correct.
Let me know if you think I'm wrong about any of this. I'd kind of like to be wrong, honestly.
As much as there's some segment that didn't vote for her over the economy, I'm sure there's a lot of folks that just didn't like her and probably weren't too happy about the fact that there wasn't a primary. The Biden admin shit on every marginalized group out there for the past 4 years and then she went on a Iraq War Neocon Tour. Like there were a lot of reasons to not vote for her and I'm guessing the BIG disparity in voter turnout between 2020 and 2024 is primarily that people turned out for Covid. Her loss is just us getting Back to Normal.💁
people all got mail in ballots in 2020 because of covid and it boosted turn out.
democrats learned nothing from that and let mail in voting get rolled back. idiots.