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I"m convinced that if she ran the same campaign, but had a dick, she'd be the president
It's a lot more complicated. They didn't even really tried to ratify Roe v. Wade after it got repelled. They just tried to play the moral high ground.
If the democrats had any bravery, they would have at least tried to put it out to vote, then if failed, smear any republican in their way as a "creepy pedophile that wants little girls pregnant", and "killers of mothers, whose pregnancy went wrong". That sways moderates way easier than moving to the right, step-by-step. My mother is actually a moderate Fidesz voter, and she's having second thoughts about her support every time she sees people posting "cry lib"-style gloat, or that the only children the "child protection" laws are protecting are manchildren having meltdowns from seeing "gay" series on the sidebar of Netflix. The common people are swayed by emotions way more than reason. Even I'm more emotional than reasonable. They want to hear a story, not a nerd-talk how your new tax system will improve the economy.
This, it'd be very easy to sway the public... Fuck just have Stephen Colbert write your campaign speech, you'd win in a fucking landslide.
This is a big problem and you've identified it correctly: When Trump says "They're coming for ya, but I'm in the way. We'll make America Great Again and defeat Sleepy Joe before Kamela eats your dogs!" people say "He's a friend of the common man, standing up to the elite.", when Kamela talks about how her comprehensive new debt plan is working actually and the chart says...... Well no one gives a shit what the chart says because they're falling asleep.
Talk to the voting public like they're children, Democratic Policies are literally too smart for anyone dumber than me to pay attention... and I'm pretty fucking dumb.
The Democrats do some "Appeal to feels", but they do it the wrong way. They talk about how they're going to take all the bad stuff sitting down because they're the "Bigger man", and they'll "Maybe look into thinking about doing something about it I reckon!"
No one's fooled by that, it's surrender at worst and apathy at best.
When Trump says he's gonna kick some ass, he's both acknowledged the problem and at least pretended to give a shit about it.
This is what people are talking about when they say Trump "sympathizes with the suffering of the common man."
Certainly. That doesn't make it a decent campaign tho
This is just misogyny but with more steps
Not really, it's an admission that America is a deeply sexist country that will never allow a situation where the majority of people stand up and say "We want the qualified woman over an unqualified male"
A man would have lost too, with the campaign she ran. We all saw this coming. You're just looking for a morally superior reason to doubt the political capability of a woman, simply based on the fact that she is a woman, and to be just as hateful and presumptuous as MAGA towards fellow Americans whom you disagree with.
Just look at Michigan, they swung for Trump but elected Elissa Slotkin for the Senate. There are plenty of women in politics who ran against men. It's about the campaign, not the sex of the person running it.
Stop playing politics like team sports, stop avoiding even the smallest bit of reflection on the Democrats' campaign, and start pressuring the Democrats to vocally support popular policies that get people out to vote. Writing this off as racism, sexism, or "a voter problem" in general, is not going to solve the problems in your party that made this the most predictable and overwhelming loss in recent history.
Doesn't change the fact that America is a deeply sexist country.
Doesn't negate literally anything that I said.