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Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib defeated her Republican opponent in Michigan's 12th congressional district election on Tuesday, securing a fourth term as the only Palestinian-American woman in the US Congress.

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

Tlaib secured 77 percent of the vote, defeating the Republican Party's James Hooper who received just 19 percent of the vote.

Her victory comes amid the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians so far and has been diplomatically and militarily supported by the Biden-Harris administration for more than a year.

Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the war, calling for the US to withhold weapons from Israel. Her opposition to the war on Gaza and support for pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses have drawn harsh criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dont expect the Democrats to learn anything from this because their Billionaire donors would rather they lose by promoting policies that don't threaten profits than win and cost the donors money.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their billionaire donors don't lose, that's the point. Reps are following the same main purpose of allowing barely restricted capital accumulation.

To know what happens in US politics when the donors are seeing even the distant possiblity of losing one day, ask Black Panthers for example.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who could've guessed that appealing to far-right republicans — who are going to vote republican anyway — wouldn't be a winning strategy?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, Democrats are always doing Republican-lite, then they're surprised that doesn't peel off voters on the right that will just always vote for the real thing anyway.

[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But if you point this out on Lemmy, you're a MAGA Trumper with six Trump dildos shoved up your ass and a fetish for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got called a Russian bot multiple times for calling out the blue Maga people. Criticising the Democratic strategy is apparently the same as wanting Trump to win.

[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh it's an absolute joke. The most recent is a guy speaking to me like I'm a misguided child who was fooled into spending my fun money on a rock.

No, dude, the Democratic Party isn't progressive, and I'm tired of them demanding my vote while giving me the finger and making no progress. I still voted Harris, begrudgingly, but I've been "had" and "need to go rest and come back when I feel better."

She ran a shit campaign and lost, and her policies offered little to the average American beyond "not fascism," I'm not misguided, her and the Democrats fucked up. Like they always do.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Don't forget you're also a secret ~~jew~~ Russian

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is actually worse. It confirms the right wing standpoints and thus leads to a general societal swing to a more right-leaning worldview. This is basically what framing is. You can see this very well here in Germany, were basically the whole political spectrum nowadays presents views that would have been considered far right just 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They also make the mistake of thinking that in order to appeal to conservative voters they have to be conservative. I have more often gotten through to conservatives with socialist economics and anarchist political philosophy than I ever could when I was a liberal trying to sway them on cultural issues and basic welfare.

And after getting through to them they started to come around on the cultural issues too.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Fucking learn from this, DNC.

[–] Anticorp 19 points 1 day ago

DNC response:

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

We need to go more to the right!

— Democrats, every time they lose

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

They will not. They will do what they always do:

  • rely on people being pissed off enough after four years of Rep rule to vote for the Dems no matter what
  • rely on a few select 'free' topics (abortion, LGBTQIA+ rights etc) to show how different they are, when they are mostly exactly the same when it comes to topics that matter to most voters daily (ie topics that affect them personally, like their own economic situation)

I recon the only thing that could actually make them shift to the left is strong opposition from the left, basically a left Ross Perot, if you want. One that collects all the votes of the people who were too disillusioned this time around to actually vote, and then basically says "Shift to the left enough, be a real alternative, and you can have these". Without someone or a party like that, no, they will not change. They will continue to further the interests of billionaires, just like the Reps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, I'm just pondering here, but it seems to me that it's a bad Idea to run an unpopular presidential candidate because when voters choose to stay home, they also take their down-ballot votes with them.

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[–] IndustryStandard 75 points 2 days ago

This means not endorsing Harris was the correct political move for Tlaib.

Tlaib correctly understood that she needed to appeal to her voters to win. Donors have a lot of money but it turns out they do not get you elected. Getting votes does.

[–] reddit_sux 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Democratic party is not a left leaning or even a centrist party. Most of right wing policy of Republican presidency is continued by the Democratic presidency.

[–] Hugin 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have a conservative party and a very conservative party.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

We have two very conservative parties with one trying to shake their branding of being otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do not support genocide. It is that easy!

[–] grue 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not that easy. Democrats have to go a lot more left than just "not genocide." They have to actually give a shit about the conditions of the working class if they want the working class to support them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That is true but Tlaib won by an overwhelming majority of 77% against 19%. Indicating most voters did not blindly pick D or R.

[–] grue 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I need you to understand something: Gaza is not the only reason somebody might have voted for Tlaib.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

That is undeniable. Her other progressive policies also appear to be very popular. 77%!

[–] AidsKitty 25 points 1 day ago

She knew how to keep her job.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (49 children)

This makes me glad. I obviously wasn't hoping for much from this election to begin with, but I've been finding a lot of silver-linings since the news started coming in. Shout out to Nebraska ~~and Florida~~ for their cannabis legalization ballot measures.

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[–] njm1314 4 points 1 day ago

What was the breakdown of the district's vote in the presidential election? I'm surprised that wasn't included in the article. It seems extremely pertinent.

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