Political Memes

1. People are busy with more important things than social media, YouTube’s, podcasts, and news.

2. People will vote with their communities to retain membership: MAGA, church, the family unit (sometimes).

3. it’s not uncommon for 60% of people not to vote.

4. Kamala didn’t distance herself from Biden. “They’re isn’t anything that comes to mind” was a coffin nail.

5. DEMs don’t sell it well. The story told has to be big enough and potent enough to pull in 1, 2, & 3.

6. What is the point of beating this dead horse? It solves nothing.

Both can be true

Fault is on everyone

• Non-voters and trump voters

• russian propagandists

• "useful idiots" telling people to not vote harris for perceived evil

• democratic leadership for not having a better platform

• Kamala Harris, who just cant stop getting pulled towards cheneys like a magnet

• Joe "I don't wanna quit yet, even tho I'm old as fuck" Biden

• republicans, who just want to destroy democracy

Everyone is at fault

Pug its only been a month

Go back to sleep and enjoy the last month of Biden doing fuck all about any of the core problems that Trump is about to expand a thousand times.

This meme even contradicts itself. If its already known there's a limit to reason, why didn't the Democrats utilize this like the Republicans did? Obama lied about a ton of crap to get votes and everyone was still happy. All of a sudden the DNC has moral compass that prevents them from properly pandering to voters but full send genocide is worth losing all three branches of the federal government over.

1 ) public ignorance is a widespread social force not a personal character fault that happens to individually affect the majority of the population.

2 ) This attitude of moral contempt is actively repellent to the people we need to reach out to, who do not subscribe to your premise. A lot of people don't think they are fascists - they are wrong, but they'll still look at you funny unless you can do a damn good job of making the argument. The Dems couldn't, the media couldn't, and nobody is watching it anyway. WE have to do it. Make better arguments and reach out to people instead of circlejerking and making our opponents arguments for them.

PROTIP: Dems being spineless, brainless cretins does NOT absolve anyone who said that sitting by and letting fascists take over the country was preferable! And yes, you CAN blame the voters for that!

The voters did not magically come to the 'correct' decision to sit this out by the spirit of democracy whispering in their ear; they did so because they believed that fascism won't be 'that bad' to them, personally! And no amount of blaming Dems for being gutless corporate weasels can change that being an accomplice to deliberately driving fascists deeper into power is not a forgivable offense!

As a Brit I'm not immersed in American politics day to day. My (unqualified) take from a million miles away went:

"Oh, Joe Biden got elected thank god"

"Oh, he's promising to only serve one term, good that's completely sensible"

"Joe's running again? What? Could they not find anyone better? This isn't going to go well at all..."

"(during that debate) Oh well, looks like Trump's going to win.."

"Hey, Kamala looks like she would have won if this had been the plan from the beginning, not a sudden fumble when Biden's brain melted beyond repair on live TV.."

Seems like - from my point of view- the main culprit was hubris on Biden's part ever attempting a second term. And the inexplicable failure of the whole party to not force him out of that self destructive choice. Other candidates besides Kamala likely could have won, just seemed like any Dem candidate would be fatally undermined by starting a late campaign.