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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Trump won in spite of being a convicted felon, fraud, and adjudicated rapist who nearly destroyed the country with his mishandling of the pandemic during his last presidency. The problem wasn't Harris's campaign.

It's nice to think that voters will bypass a shitty campaign to find the relevant information themselves, but it's hardly realistic.

That is literally the basis of democracy.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

There is no "the problem". Societies and elections are too complicated for that kind of reductionist reasoning.

Take value judgements out of it, and the fundamental truth is that the Trump campaign attracted and energized more voters than the Harris campaign. What knobs and switches could we have played with to get a different outcome? That is all I care about, and I don't know how we are supposed to get better voters in less than four years with Republicans in power.

That is literally the basis of democracy.

Which is why democracy and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible, but that's a much deeper conversation.

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