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Again long post on this is why the party was failed, it can never be failed.
Harris, dems and Biden made massive mistakes and miscalculations after barely being trump last time then doing almost nothing for the country. This is why they lost.
They did nothing to inspire they'd actually be better than trump or at least not able to convince enough people they'd be better.
But yeah keep just blaming people
Barely? They won by a huge percentage.
I don’t know what country you live in, but in America they did some really good things. Many good things. Not that I’m going to get that list for you again.
What they didn’t do was disown all relationships with Israel and that’s all the GRU needed to get 60% of us to stay home and fart our way to fascism.
Let’s now return to your apparent idyll in trumptopia.
"Sure, they were committing a Holocaust, but they made the trains run on time!"
Huge in popular vote but as we live in a country where land means more than people in presidental elections it was super close
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/did-biden-win-little-or-lot-answer-yes-n1251845
No please list his accomplishments. It's fun seeing what others consider them.
They totally helped people which is why he won in a landslide
You may google them yourself and then explain how they didn’t help.
Healthcare, unions, student loan forgiveness, and a huge move to renewables and cutting down big oil among them. Are you actually a progressive or do the things that matter to you not apply anywhere in all of it?
We didn't get Healthcare improvements, and he let what little was gotten from covid expire.
Unions is debatable on what he improved after using his powers to stop rail workers. And not doing anything when fed decided to use interest rates to remove any workers wage growth.
Ah yes student loans, totally did that not drop it once courts said no.
He drilled more but may be green deal would have done something if not cut to the bone before trump just kills the rest.
Oh and now we're to the if you don't like the dnc you must be on the right
No, you just seem to be incapable of seeing anything good in the DNC. Which, considering *gestures to everything* is some kind if accomplishment.
“Bah”
“Feh”
“Meh”
“Whatever”
All of which have been fed into the shredder to feed billionaires more money they won’t even notice because “Harris loves genocide” ffs.
Yes things either watered down to nothing or did good then not extended like the child tax credits that massively decreased child poverty until allowed to expire.
The jobs act was cut up after 1 spoiler forced then to take it to pieces anything meaningful due to the deficit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan#American_Jobs_Plan
Student loans he allowed to restart interest on in capitulation to the republicans after doing nothing to help out those with the loans after his militoast forgiveness plan was thrown out by the courts.
This is all perfect examples of doing nothing but hand outs to cooperations, not people and then dems wondering why no one liked what they did.
I disagree (obvs) but your political party isn’t even in existence is it? Like, if it’s not to make the Dems better, what’s your angle?
The dems want to be better republicans, there's no saving then
So "no plan". Okay.
Well hey if something comes along, let us know!
Til replace the dnc is no plan
No that’s a plan, but - y’know - how . . . is that happening? Is there . . a website or something?
Ah, I get it so we can only be critical when there's a published plan. Got it
Howabout ANY plan? Ffs just make up one right now. How far down in there are you? You realize there’s a time element at work here right.
Why? Seriously why is this always the response to the dems are shit.
We can't do a different party because of the wonderful election system in this country. Anytime that's brought up to just vote for another they're called a trump supporter.
Can't do it from the inside because either purged by leadership or kicked out to show not like the dirty republicans see Al Franken.
Can't do it as DSA.
Can't do it as grassroots like netroots because just ignored.
All that seems allowed is blaming voters for realizing the system is fucked.
You’ve certainly got the reasons why it can’t be done sewed up. So kudos there. And yet I feel there must be something else to do to reform an electoral system, defeat fascism, and implement progressive policies.
Oh! Duh. T-shirts. That’s what you missed.
We can't be so forward thinking saying but Harris genocide those poopy voters everytime.
Yeah if it wasn't for those darned trump voters she would have won