For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.

I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.

No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

all those articles from months ago that were like "it's really strange how Americans seem to think the economy is bad when it's actually really great and awesome. what could possibly be the explanation? republican media? brainwashing? have they just not been told that the economy is good? are they spoiled from all the money we gave them during the pandemic?" are extremely funny in hindsight.

political analysts spent years of their lives in the best universities; now baffled at the fact that the area under the curve of an inflation graph is more important than whether the curve is going up or down, and whether wages outpace that inflation. calculus makes fools of us all, I suppose. so as much as I wish that Harris would have lost solely on the basis of pro-Palestinian voters (this would be the best possible timeline out of all the horrible ones where Trump wins), it might in fact just be the economy, stupid

[–] djphdk@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On NPR this morning, there was a story on Latino voters. The guest opens the spot saying, "the top issue for Hispanics was actually the economy" and "most said that they were worse off financially compared to 4 years ago." The guest and host then spend 5 minutes talking about how the problem with Harris campaign's outreach to Latino voters was that they used the terms Latinx and progresista.

Absolutely nothing will be learned by liberals.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The economy was definitely the most important factor by far, but I'm guessing a large majority of Latino Trump voters do take issue with the Spanish language-defying term "Latinx".

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