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"A jewish black trans woman would have won Alabama in a landslide, but only if she was a really outspoken socialist" - Half of Lemmy users
I think a lot of left-oriented people are in denial that Trump made no secret of who he was the past eight years, and Americans got exactly what a majority of them legitimately wanted. Trump voters know he is a bigot and that is why they chose him. There is no degree of populist social welfare rhetoric Kamala or the Democrats could have said that would have moved the needle when for most voters, electing a bigot was the priority over all other issues.
I mean, nearly half the country just didn't vote. Had Kamala actually offered good policy it probably would've mobilized a lot more people. Voting against someone doesn't feel as good as voting for someone. Kamala never offered many reasons to vote for her. Trump just offered a lot of reasons to vote against him.
That was enough for me to vote against Trump. But then again I'm in a group that's in Republicans' cross hairs.
This "both sides are the same" bullshit took root too hard. And now, due to voter apathy, the biggest military in the world is about to be in the hands of an outright fascist dictatorship.
I feel like there's enough blame to go around. Fuck the Republicans for a laundry list of things. Fuck the Democrats for letting this happen. Fuck the non voters for their apathy. Fuck all the dipshits who voted for the orange fascist.
Some people are trying their best to avoid politics outside of election season, and a lot of them are taking them in good faith.
When I first voted for Fidesz in 2009 and 2010, I didn't know about the "Székház ügy" (Hall Controversy - Fidesz sold a hall given to them for crazy amounts of money, which they dumped into media to attack the MSZP government of 1994-1998), and my mother to this day does not want to acknowledge it. People just saw that the MSZP-SZDSZ didn't do a lot of good, tried to sell our hospitals to for-profit corporations, etc.
Most voters aren't politically savvy terminally online weirdos, but weirdos that want to hear a story, a narrative.
We need a left-wing populist narrative! Not economic jargon, and also not the kind of leftist rhetoric that terminally online tankies on lemmygrad and hexbear are spouting (most destructive thing that can happen to leftism), but someone who will translate it to the language of the common people.