as a Canadian I don’t really feel it’s my place to way in on the American election however since I have to see MAGA hats when I go out I think I can have an opinion. America really doesn’t understand how much their election effects the geo political climate of other countries, America’s devolution into facism is going to have consequences for literally every other country in some way shape or form.
i’m already seeing people blame third party voters and as disappointing as it is Kamala has no one but herself to blame, she sees that a huge chunk of her voter base refuses to vote for her because of one big issue and she refused to make concessions which is her job as a politician. Centrism/moderate politics have no place in the current political climate and I think that’s what a lot of people don’t get especially liberals, they think they’re catering to a larger voting base but they’re just alienating potential supporters, maybe the dems with learn from this for next election but i doubt it.
Sorry for my ignorance, what's the "one big issue" that she refused to make concessions for?
it’s wasn’t just one thing but her stance on Palestine and the fact that she was often unwilling to address it in a genuine way was a huge factor in many being unwilling to vote for her. her stances on the military and the police turned off many potential voters from the left.
I am having trouble confirming that any of that is actually true. I know that there's been a lot of internet discourse about that and that some people were saying not to vote for her for those reasons, but I'm not actually sure there was any real impact on the votes she did or did not get because of that. Based on what little I found about that, even in the aftermath where everyone is picking apart the results and trying to find reasons that she lost, I don't think those issues were big enough to enough voters to actually impact the final results.
I originally replied to this post because I think it's a bad take and I think I stand by that. Yeah, we lost, and yeah things are going to get really really bad. I think this is the exact time that trying to make the democratic party out to be unyielding monsters is a really bad idea - the only thing gained at this moment by infighting is gained by the right. We win nothing over fighting against ourselves.
A Trump presidency is going to be worse for everyone than a Harris presidency would have been, especially given Congress and the courts. Not voting for her for really any reason would have been quite stupid - Palestinians are not going to be better off for her losing, the only people who feel better about that may be the ones who smugly chose not to vote for her out of a messed up sense of what political action means. But right now the best thing we can do is work together to fight the right as much as we can. If they split us into splinter groups of leftists and progressives and single issue groups focused solely on Palestine or abortion or trans issues at the expense of all other issues, so we're just left fighting each other as the right destroys the world economy, women and minority rights, black bags and deports people by the thousands, we are doing nothing to make the world better, we're only - at best - making ourselves feel better for taking a principled stand. But principles don't mean much in a gulag, survival does.

















