cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30986085
Poor one out for all your LGBTQ+ homies in America, they're about to be hunted for sport.
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They should've, yes. And yet more than half of this country did not.
I urge you to think more critically about why this happened. The margin by which we lost cannot be attributed to a few leftists making memes.
The margin lost by, along with the strong campaign run by Harris (the people complaining are the people voting Dem), and Trump's DISASTER of a debate, makes me think nobody could have beaten Trump.
Centrists have flocked to Trump as the "strong" candidate, they're low information, they have short memories, and they just want someone they can easily trust/blame for their economic issues.
Not only that, but trans "issues" are in Republican favor when they use scare tactics and not just a questionnaire. They went hard on that in ads because they know it works.
No, 2008 Obama ran a strong campaign. Inspiring voters with a message of hope and change is strong campaigning.
Going on the View and saying you would do nothing differently than Biden, when Biden was so unelectable he had to be replaced immediately before the convention and when 60% of the country thinks things are on the wrong track, is not strong campaigning.
She never differentiated herself from Biden, she ran immediately to the middle, and she campaigned with unpopular Republicans. She chose to represent the status quo and voters rejected it.
I would urge you to remember that this post itself is a meme. Of course "a few leftists making memes" isn't the root cause, it's just one that I personally witnessed swaying people and that particularly pisses me off.
And yes, the Dems could've and should've done better, but I would like to be able to believe that people are smart enough to not commit suicide by apathy, and I feel justified in being pissed off at those who dragged the whole country down by failing to show a little self-preservation instinct.
I feel justified in being pissed off at people whose first reaction to all of this is to blame the left. Because y'all do this after every election we lose, and learning nothing is how we go on to lose the next election.
Blame the people who voted for Trump. Think for a minute about why they did, and then think about what we can do differently next time.
Not learning is what will drag the whole country down.
Why do that when we can blame nebulous leftist memes they 0.005% of voters saw? Obviously that's the cause of a massive failure of messaging and policy making.