I think centrism can win elections though. In my country, the UK, elections are usually won by whichever party captures the centre ground. Keir Starmer won in the UK this year by being centrist. Previously David Cameron and Tony Blair were pretty centrist, and both won multiple elections.

I guess ideally Biden should never have run for a second term, and they could have had proper primaries.

Realistically perhaps Britain just needs partners, with the US of course being a major partner (Five Eyes for example).

If we weren’t so closely tied to the US then maybe Starmer could be making a statement similar to that of Macron and Scholz today:

Germany, France vow close cooperation after US election… “We will work in this new context for a more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe…”

Fair points. Biden won enough men in 2020 though. Maybe Kamala was just seen as too leftist or too focused on women’s issues or something… I’m not saying she was those things, but maybe some people saw her that way.

Fair. Maybe voters cared about personalities though. And they thought Kamala was partly responsible for rising prices under Biden’s term, so maybe they weren’t as bothered by other policy areas.

Trump holds grudges so maybe he would insist on only meeting Starmer and not Lammy. Who knows.

True. Maybe Harris should have focused more on working class endorsements, union endorsements, etc. I dunno.

Perhaps these two factors contributed to this:

1. Harris is a woman and maybe some Americans just don’t want a female president
2. Harris maybe leaned too hard on celebrity endorsements, at a time when Americans are feeling worse-off financially, which perhaps made her seem out of touch to middle America

Maybe something that hurt Kamala was her use of top music stars… maybe average Americans feel those celebrities are out of touch with average people. I saw this on BBC News:

a Republican at one Trump rally… said their candidate had completely “reimagined” the Republican party from its country club voter stereotype to appealing to working class families, while the Democrats had become the “party of Hollywood”

And of course the people who run Lemmy.ml are the people who made Lemmy.

On the websites of many open source projects over the last 2 years there have been messages of support for Ukraine, but I guess that’s unlikely to occur with Lemmy.