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Tim Walz says ‘we wouldn’t be in this mess’ if it wasn’t for him and Harris
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The voters deserve a lot of blame here.
You can lead a horse to water....
Any ADULT can easily see that politicians are going to be imperfect, and no single candidate is going to align 100% with your stance. Demanding that they do, or else you'll vote for literally the worst possible option, or sit out, or vote a "protest" vote, all so that someone, somewhere will "learn" something is just fucking childish and stupid. And this will be continue to be true no matter how many times the Tone Police show up to admonish people about blaming voters. Sorry, not sorry: I blame the voters.
Tim Walz explained it the other day at SXSW.
Politicians are like teachers. If it's Tim Walz's job to teach kids about geography, and then test them to check if he taught well, if the outcomes of that test show that half the class passes and half fails, then the blame for that is on the teacher. The teacher could have taught differently, teaching in different styles to adequately reach out to students where they're at in life and according to their specific learning styles. He might teach the same topic 5-6 different ways to capture as many people as possible.
The Harris-Walz campaign didn't do that. They had terrible messaging as soon as the DNC hit. When Harris brought Walz on, there was actual progressive momentum. But then Harris bent the knee to establishment Democrats, and they lost the election.
I will not believe that it's the voters' fault for the election outcome. If Democrats were sober enough to realize Trump's threat and wanted to really fire people up, they would have may the necessary changes to do so.
Defeated Democratic candidate: accepts responsibility in the lightest possible way
Liberal fanboy: Noooo, it's not your fault, it's the children who were wrong!
I didn't say Walz, Kamala, Biden or the Democratic Party in general have no blame.
Yeah, us voters are children, and we need politicians to baby us
It means you never have to listen or change in any way, so of course you do.
LOL, I am a voter. Are you under the impression that I have any direct influence over the Democratic Party? 🤣
According to your comment, voters are to blame, not the infallible holy party. So good work electing trump. It's all your fault.
says the guy, responding to the guy who literally voted for that fucking party.
Nobody demanded that Harris align 100% with their stance; they demanded that she not be an absolute pile of shit of a candidate. That distinction matters.
she was actually pretty ok? The one thing that was bad about her was the israel stance, which is like maybe 5% of the voter base that ACTUALLY cares about that enough.
So first a lot more than 5% of the Democrat voter base cares about Gaza. I won't get into the weeds, but there.
No? She would've won at least two or three swing states if that was the case. Her economic policy (or lack thereof, more accurately) was horrible. She dedicated the final two months of her campaign almost exclusively to "Trump bad" rhetoric while not promising to do anything for her constituents. I mean this woman was asked what she'd do different from Biden economically and she said "nothing comes to mind". Status quo politics just won't cut it in this day and age.
i'm talking about the voter base that actually cares enough to influence their vote over it. I'm sure if you polled the public it;s like 90% or higher who care about it at all, like 40% support israel, 60% against israel, and like 5% of those is "fuck israel i hope it burns to the ground and that palestine re conglomerates into israel" type of people.
"her economic policy was bad" bro, did you see ANYTHING that trump said? Literally an irrelevant argument. Especially now.
I remember her talking about a lot of things she and walz were going to do, that was like a pretty big deal. Was their entire plan, not all of it was great, but it existed, unlike trump.
yeah and? Biden had pretty good economic policy? Aside from the whole covid thing, but you have no choice there, unless you want a global recession, more like a depression. Again, trumps economic policy has been an utter disaster in comparison.
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling
Don't move the goalposts. Here's what you said:
We're talking about Harris on her own merit, not about Trump.
Like? Give me something specific she clearly said she would do for the working class and a link of her saying it in September or October.
He did well on the economic recovery front, but he or example didn't go after price gouging. His economic policies were a step in the right direction, not an end state to campaign on.
Again, that is literally not what we're talking about.
Sample Online sample of 604 voters fielded from December 20 to January 07, 2025. Margin of Error ±4.5%
thats uh, a really small sample size. Especially for a sample that's supposed to consist of multiple swing states. Not to mention that organization is clearly either deeply embedded into the arabic culture, or arabic itself (didn't look that hard) obviously that's not an issue, we have things like AIPAC here in the US, it's just, probably very biased. Which is why they exist in the first place. That's kind of the whole point.
What's the other available option? Voting for jill fucking stein? Who cares what i said, the facts are plainly evident, you have one really bad choice, and one decent choice.
and if we're talking about her own merit specifically, i'd say she's still a pretty competitive candidate, the voting numbers seem to agree with me on that one.
she ran for a bunch of shit, notably the child tax credit, the housing crisis, the food crisis, corporate taxes, capital gains tax, there are a number of other things, those are the ones i can remember off the top of my head.
the price gouging one im not sure on, there was only really significant price gouging of medical equipment and consumables in the early pandemic months, which was quickly shut down, as it was deemed illegal, beyond that you're talking about things like food, which struggle with inflation, and are also affected by things other than the economy, notably the avian flu for eggs. Consume electronics have gotten more expensive in some capacities, the GPU market specifically, but that's obviously due to AI. That's about it, everything else is probably going to be related to inflation.
Who else are we comparing it to? Fucking god? IS the heavenly father himself going to come down and run our government for us? What's the frame of reference we're holding here?
Short answer: Learn statistics. Slightly longer answer: 604 people is more than enough for a normal distribution to appear, so if the sample size was "really small" it'd be reflected in the margin of error.
Biased towards... Palestinians' rights? The fuck are you talking about?
Uh... If you don't care to have a conversation then you should say so from the start. If you do care to have a conversation, then what you said quite obviously fucking matters. Also you ignored everything I said to claim Harris is a "decent" choice.
What voting numbers? The ones where she lost all seven swing states? Also I quite distinctly remember a whole lot of "hold your nose and vote for her", which isn't what you say about a "pretty competitive" candidate.
Quotes for those things from September or October?
Again, the fuck are you talking about? Grocery price gouging during recessions is a widespread and documented phenomenon, and if you don't understand that then you really are in no position to discuss the November election, because you don't understand the people's grievances that Harris failed to address.
"Good" doesn't need a frame of reference; it's an absolute judgement. "Better" is a relative judgement that does require a frame if reference. Most people can judge whether something is good without being offered a specific frame of reference, and to most people a candidate that doesn't even acknowledge a problem exists (again, "nothing comes to mind") is not good.
centrists think "second worst" means "good".
in the context between shooting yourself in the head with a 12 gauge slug, and stubbing your toe really badly. I think most people would agree with me when i say that stubbing your toe is the best option. Comparatively, a good option.
Of course if you compare it to things like, randomly finding a billion check on the ground, nothing compares to that, but that's an unreal comparison, you literally cannot base a reference point on them.
I mean, if you're comparing finding a billion dollar check on the ground to democrats being willing to field a candidate with redeeming features beyond "not trump," I think the check is more likely.
I agree, I'm also happy that people like Walz seem to want to give people a better option, making a protest vote even less appealing.
Harris could have aligned with 99% of what I wanted, but that 1% was OK with genocide, and that should have been a red line for anyone.
So, the alternative was little d, because that's so much better?
The alternative in every instance is always no Democrats. We already have a right wing party, we don't need two.
There were two viable options only.
When your two options are both right wing reactionaries, there are not two options.
The best I can do is fall for blatant Russian propaganda and then get mad when someone calls me out on it.
TRUE I LOVE TAKING UP ONE SIDED POSITIONS LIKE FUCK ISRAEL I HOPE EVERYONE IN THAT COUNTRY DIES A HORRIBLE AND PAINFUL DEATH
~~this is satire, hi hello, im doing political satire~~
It sure is convenient how all criticism comers from russians so you can ignore it.
Kind of like anyone that finds faults with other leftists is a "centrist", right?
Don't you have voters to blame for your party's decades of complete incompetence?
You'll have to try better than that comrade.
You're being mean to me! I hate you mean liberals! You're always picking on leftists who just want to let fascists become president
based and true, thank you.