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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (35 children)

Don't worry guys. We'll run another centrist in 2028 too. But this time it'll work.

[–] skeezix 39 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Being a centrist is not Harris' problem. Harris' problem was being non-white and a woman in a nation of fickle uninformed voters.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Sure, that didn't help, but she also was a "more of the same" candidate (she's rhe current VP!)

As much as I wanted her to win, she was always a stupid choice in at a time where voters can essentially all agree on one thing: they want change.

Status quo politics is dead, the dems just haven't realized it yet. As braindead as Trump and a most of his policies are, people like that he doesn't give a shit about disrupting things to achieve his goals.

[–] skeezix 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You're right, I agree with you and I think his goals are both damaging and stupid... but at the end of the day his strategy is winning and we will obviously have to adapt to beat it.

[–] Ensign_Crab 6 points 2 weeks ago

we will obviously have to adapt

Democrats would rather lose and blame the left.

[–] skeezix -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We ran a centrist in 2020 and it worked.

[–] Snowclone 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Biden wasn't really a centrist in the same way Harris was. Biden ran on a progressive-ish platform, and mostly backed it up with action. He sure as hell didn't run on fracking and locking up immigrants like Harris is.

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

... What the fuck are you talking about

The difference is she is a woman. Denying it won't change a fucking thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh honey. Its not that. Some of it is that... But 20 million votes are missing from the left; its not because shes a woman that they didnt vote.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

The Dems should definitely move more central on social issues, as the US election system has a huge built in rural bias.

Then focus on more broad-reaching progressive economic topics. Less focus on legislation targeting specific marginalized groups and more on policies which would impact everyone directly. As a potential example, Universal Basic Income ("Freedom Bonus" or whatever it was called) was one such policy which was floated a couple elections ago.

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