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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it because they were women? Are you sure it wasn't because they were borderline Republicans? Both Clinton and Harris are two of the most conservative democratic candidates to run in the last 30 years.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well keep running women and keep coming up with excuses in why they loose besides admiring America is sexist.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Democrats: Run two of the most establishment, conservative, uninspiring candidates possible from their party; each with a laundry list of controversies and shady practices.

You: They must have lost because they were women!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Maybe if we ran an actual fucking liberal for a change.

Biden actually ran as a liberal and didn't try to court the Republicans. Even though he's got a long-term track record of voting for all the things Republicans love. Not to mention he ran basically a Reagan era White House. All the while being called the most liberal president we've ever had. Meanwhile Harris ran as a super conservative neoliberal. She embraced the war criminal Dick Cheney and refused to go on record as opposing the war on Gaza. Clinton steamrolled the entire Democratic party to take to nomination by force and then walked around pretending to be nice all the while spitting out conservative talking points.

The entire Democratic party is a fucking joke. And until progressives decide to shed the Democratic party and run as progressive independents instead we're going to continue to have this shit show.