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Go look at the polling for why people voted the way they did.
People voted for change. Trump offered it with lies. Kamala did nothing. It's really that cut and dry .
Between genocide and a refusal to speak to economic needs she lost. End of story.
Sure there are people who didnt vote for her because her intersectionality of a black Indian woman but that isn't what lost her election no matter how hard to try to spin your cope.
Its interesting to me that your argument is that things completely different to what you are saying is the primary reason you lost, is why she lost but are trying to poorly link them together.
It can't be both. Either its the change or its the genocide, and its obviously not the latter because the other party is worse.
Even then, your reasoning falls apart because you are refusing to acknoledge that instead people didn't turn out for harris when they did turn out in normal numbers for trump. For republicans they fall in line, for democrats they fall in love.
Just because you want something to be cope as a cheap dismissal doesnt mean it is.
No you're not getting what I am saying at all because you are knee jerk defending identity politic bullshit.
What were the two biggest issues for people going into the election? The economy (stagnate wages, inflation, cost of school, medical, housing etc it's all wrapped up an affordability crisis) and the genocide in Gaza.
Which do you think was the bigger issue?
Wrong it was Gaza. The biggest reason for people not voting was the refusal to stop backing the genocide. The economy was actually second.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll
There's only more polls that support this out there since.
Now to clarify my point on change. This was the primary difference in the rhetoric of the two campaigns. Both campaigns were pro genocide, pro deportation, pro cracking down on immigration, and pro corporate deregulation (biggest example coming to mind here is the unnecessary flip flopping on fracking). Not to mention anti trans (lest we forget Kamala wanted to "follow the law" in a year where over 200 anti trans laws were passed around the country many in effect today).
Kamala Harris offered Biden 2.0 as her platform. She said there would be no sunlight between her and Biden and that we should expect more of the same. She offered no change that people were desperately crying out for. Housing credits for first time home buyers? Like cool but what problem does that structurally solve? None.
Trump on the other hand ran on a platform of changing the country and restoring economic prosperity and man he was a liar but at least he cared enough to tell people what they wanted to hear. I don't agree with Trump at all but surely you can see how this dynamic played into how people voted.
You can scream identity politics til you're blue in the face but the numbers simply do not support you. The people who did not vote for her due to her race or gender were a drop in the bucket compared to those she lost by refusing to move to the left on a single issue or condemn the live streamed murder of children (which remember she ran cover for with Biden for 2 years unapologetically).
Not even close. You live in a tremendous bubble.
The first absolutely. The second not at all.
You starting off with some identity politics nonsense claim just means I dont care to fully respond to the rest of this. Its also old, because so many people on this site are clearly insufferable, bots or so idealistic they flip around to actually fighting against the causes they pretend to care about due to purity testing.
The numbers simply do not support you. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll
Sorry! Who lives in a bubble? 🤔
Also do you know what identity politics are? I was not making any arguments like that. My only mention of idpol is in calling it a cop out excuse lol