I mean okay. That's kind of not how people work. You can hate it, but it's just not how people work. I thought y'all had learned that by now.

That’s not at all what happened.

The donkey showed people the positions and the people sat at home.

The same assholes as usual voted Republican and that’s how Trump won.

People were lazy, disinterested, and not motivated to vote for the incumbent party.

American tears, so salty right now

So I completely understand why people would feel this way, given that Trump won, it must stand to reason that people voted for him more, right? Except that isn’t the case. Trump got fewer votes this election than the last one.

Let me also just add here: Fuck Trump, fuck the GOP, fuck all of the fascists that supported and voted for him. I wish that Hell was real so that they could all go there.

But the reason he won isn’t because people voted for him more, it’s because Kamala’s platform didn’t inspire democrat voters to actually go and vote for her.

You could totally say that in the two party system, choosing not to vote is the same as voting for Trump, but I think that’s not true - a large number of people who voted Biden but didn’t vote Kamala are likely to be opposed to Trump and are likely to participate in protests, activist action and organising against fascism.

You may not understand why someone would be motivated to participate in activism, but not motivated to vote - and I completely understand that too. People who are into electoral politics don’t really grasp how others feel about it.

There are a number of reasons why that could be, but I would say that probably chief among them are the fact that she represented a status quo rather than a shift towards socialism, and because she refused to take a firm position against the ongoing genocide in Gaza

Of course, you’re free to believe as you wish, and I’m not trying to change your mind really - I’m just trying to add a bit of nuance and help explain what happened.

More accurately, it's the potential voters sitting at home not voting that did it. Republican-leaning people got out and voted, as they always do.

Y'all missing the point here, the elephant in the room is that Kamala is a woman, and America is a very misogynistic place. Trump won both times against a woman, and loose against a white old dude. Both ladies were better than Biden at everything, they platforms were better. This wasn't even related to Palestine, or climate change, you americans are sexist morons, demographically speaking, and choose the rampant fascist male clown instead of the qualified female, you are afraid of women in power, and that will cost you your democracy. Good luck evicting the oversized cheeto in four years.