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Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?
Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.
Consider this a mini-effortpost aggregator. This is not for shitposts, but humor is completely acceptable if it helps make the point.
Harris did not lose (primarily) due to her gender or race. I feel that people who are operating under this assumption need to examine the dialectic here a lot more closely. Kamala’s major L is not a testament to Trump being any degree of magnificent but rather a demonstration of how God awful she is. Liberals need to garner far more awareness. If your answer to the question, “Why did Kamala lose?” has anything to do with assuming that it’s mainly the fault of reactionary, sexist, and racist white men, you are cutting out a whole bunch of very important factors from this equation. Plenty of marginalized people feel utterly disappointed in the bourgeois, imperialist machine that is the Democratic Party of the United States.
We’ve seen that they will truly do nothing to further our rights or even maintain them as they currently stand. They don’t care about economic equality, and the most we’ve gotten from them is lip service. Democrats and Republicans are two heads on a vicious and malevolent double-headed fire-breathing dragon. One of these heads breathes fire of its usual color, and this head will explicitly warn you that this fire is there to kill your ass. The other head, on the other hand, will breathe a mesmerizing, astonishingly flashy rainbow-colored fire instead. On top of that, this head will tell you that if you get touched by this fire, you’ll heal from all of the wounds that the other head’s fire has given you, but in actuality, it just exacerbates the damage.
This double-headed dragon has wreaked havoc on marginalized communities, and these marginalized communities know, be they oppressed on the basis of race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, religion, or anything else, that the rainbow fire actually has zero healing properties, so stop acting like they do not know because we do. In addition, stop pretending that you care about us because you liberals have constantly demonstrated to me, a poor neurodivergent transfem of color, that you do not care about my view on bourgeois electoralism. It’s clear that I am nothing but a pawn to you, and you seem to want to dispose of me the moment that me being your pawn stops working in your favor. If that were anything but the truth, you’d listen to me on how to be a better ally to the marginalized, but you never do. If your outlook is that you want to hurt marginalized people while pretending that you care about them, it’s no wonder that KKKamala HarriSS seems right up your alley.
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.”
I’m Canadian and Trump hysteria is only gonna hurt the conservatives and helo the ndp, the lib party is dead in the water as far as public opinion goes. This is gonna make things easier for the NDP cause we can literally point to America and say ‘look where it got them, we have a viable third party’
Did the NDP make big gains under the last Trump presidency? I thought it was still Trudeau the whole time.
Not so much, but also it was covid and the government was matching our paychecks to not work for the last year. Hard to lose during that. The NDP has more recently cut the political ties they had with the libs do to their overwhelming corporate ties publicly but more importantly they won’t be helping out a genocide if elected and that’s helped a lot lately. Tbh, it’s probably gonna be a tory win for the next one but NDP seems to be looking better than ever for a 2nd place and a shot at pm for the election after next. If they pull it together instead of the cons that’d be cool, but seems unlikely
I think we can use this to put the nail in the coffin of arguments about stalling or harm reduction. I think even people who find that convincing as a concept would have to concede that they’ve ridden that horse as far as it can carry them. It seems self evident that this is not a working strategy at this point.
So if you’re talking to a progressive/lib ask them what their plan was once they stalled as long as they could. Because they have.
Texts with my lib dad
trumpism has its roots in disaffected working class people
is that true?
nazism wouldn’t have taken the same hold in germany if their economy was [ ?wasn’t? ] destroyed post-WW1
is that true? it’s certainly what we learned in school. but basically zero of what schools have to say about nazis is true.
your dad seems unconvinced by the walls of text
-Can’t blame third parties, the margins are too big and they wouldn’t have mattered in a single state.
-Can’t blame non-voters, voter turnout was relatively high.
-Can’t blame the Electoral College, Trump won the popular vote by almost twice the difference that Hillary has in 2016.
-Can’t blame it on people being ignorant of the ramifications, Trump had already been president for 4 years, he was the presumptive nominee all along, and throughout election season he actually polled higher than his favorability when he left office.
-Can’t blame corruption or voting machines, the last week of polling had Trump ahead, and the exit polling lines up with the results.
The only thing the Democrats have to blame is themselves, for running a bad campaign with an inferior candidate and striking out on a softball.
A close friend of mine was remarking in the last few weeks how the Democrats had pivoted from the “weird” messaging, which seemed to be working, back to the “he’s dangerous and unstable and a threat to democracy” messaging, which they knew from experience did not have much of an effect. In fact, from exit polls, out of people who said “democracy in this country is threatened” or prioritized a candidate’s capacity to do the job, a clear majority supported Trump! This is yet another damning piece of evidence that suggests that Democrats were actively not doing what they could to win the election. Either they prioritized fundraising at the expense of outcome, or they actually threw it.
Also, Allan Lichtman BTFO.
Can’t blame non-voters, voter turnout was relatively high.
Wasn’t turn out significantly depressed compared to 2020?
What are you suggesting we blame it on? My gut impulse has been to say it was a bad strategy that didn’t mobilize the voters Dems won with before, while Trumps turnout was static. Which I think is kinda a turnout based argument but if that’s a mistake I want to catch and stop that now.
