• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    They saw a woman was running for President and decided they didn’t care. It’s as simple as that. Sexism gave the election to Trump

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      17 hours ago

      We can point fingers at demographics, and certainly that may have been a part, but its reductive to say just sexism. If we accept any single reason, there will be no reason to improve our platforms.

      You’ve got Democratic leaning media blaming the dems for being too woke… and more than half the country just didn’t vote. We need a platform that argues in favor of worker and individual rights alike while not capitulating on either, because as soon as you do capitulate to the right, you lose support, plain and simple.

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        15 hours ago

        When the only voters who sat out were white and hispanic men then what would be the logical reason?

        Why didn’t women sit out this election at the same rates? Why not any other groups besides white and hispanic men?

        What other conclusions can you even draw for these specific groups that have masculinity issues than not voting for a woman?

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        16 hours ago

        Latinos shift to Trump won him the election. Harris had the white and black support she needed

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          16 hours ago

          We cant split hairs on demographic turnout if overall turnout is way down from 2020, I mean we can make Latinos a scapegoat, but again we’re completely subverting critique that could actually help win an election.

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              13 hours ago

              The fact is those margins in the Hispanic community would barely make a dent on overall turnout? Hence, scapegoating.

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                10 hours ago

                If every white and hispanic man who voted for biden also voted for harris then she would have won

                Acknowledging reality is not scapegoating

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                  8 hours ago

                  7,000,000 less votes than Biden has is beyond any single percent margin in minority populations. Even if… what are you going to do? Harp on said demographics foe making the wrong choice for 4 years? Self righteousness ain’t gonna solve the lost vote. Ask why things happen once in a while.

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      12 hours ago

      53% of white women voted for Trump. Your “America won’t vote for a woman” argument doesn’t hold water.

      Americans won’t vote for specific women, sure. Namely Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. The fact that they are women is not why they lost so cataclysmically; they ran platforms that were deeply unengaging to Democrat and Independent voters. Worse, they tried to appeal to Republicans, which only underscored how out-of-touch and unprepared they were to hold the office. Moreover, neither of those specific women, nor the DNC that backed them seems to have learned anything from their continual failures, which, again, only deepens the divide among Democrats’ necessary coalitions.

      Their failures are a function of being bad at post-Obama politics, and bad at running for the highest office in the land. It’s not because they are women.