Ah, yes, the fallacy where the Republicans are the de facto winners and the election is only up to what the Democrats do.

I mean, yeah, they ran a mediocre campaign, but there is a difference between "critiquing our leaders" and literally campaigning against them, and leftist in general have a hard, hard, HARD time with that one. Critique is for when you're in power. You analize, you apply your newfound political power to create pressure, you postmortem what went wrong. Campaigns are for winning.

didn't she also illegally sabotage Bernie?

I mean, Trump won prettily handily against the other Rupublican's is my recollection. I can agree that Clinton and her campaign wanted to face him, and helped, but I think it still would have been Clinton vs Trump regardless. I think blaming Democrats for Trump is similar to blaming Trump for Covid: Yeah he made the US response worse, leading to unnecessary deaths, but Covid was still going to affect the nation and people were going to die regardless.

I mean there's an increasingly muddied line between critiquing the potential president, and supporting their opponent. Russia is almost certainly trying to push the latter here in Lemmy and everywhere else. It worked amazingly well in 2016 and they're hoping they can repeat that for this election. With so much of that propaganda they're pushing, people do get defensive about critiquing Biden. Sometimes rightfully so ("Biden is supporting genocide in Gaza, we need to vote 3rd party or Republican so the Democrats can change") other times its not warranted ("Biden needs to fix his response to Israel to not turn off voters to him").

Critique all you like. You're allowed too. But I feel a lot of people draw the line at encouraging voting 3rd party, not voting or voting for Trump for this election. There may be a D candidate that's more favorable than Biden, but statistically, the incumbent has better odds at winning reelection than losing. I'd much rather ensure that Trump doesn't get reelected, rather hoping a new candidate is not only better than Biden, but also able to beat Trump.

Regardless of your opinion many of your responses are abusive and break community rules.

Anger and frustration over the political climate in the US is understandable but for someone who’s almost 50 you still need to work on your self control.

If you can’t engage in civil discourse then don’t reply to people, you only hurt your own cause.

This is ignoring the iceberg that sunk the titanic and focusing on the shoes of the lookout man for being too comfortable so the guy wasn't as uninsurable aware as you think he should have been.

"I literally do blame the lookout guy's shoes for the boat sinking, and if you don't, you aren't paying attention"

So that presents an interesting perspective. All this shit is happening, then, because some arrogant Republican state officials were miffed Hilary snubbed their state entirely (another profoundly arrogant move, admittedly) and used that and their naive 2015 perspective to essentially doom the entire fucking world to this incredibly horrible shitshow we're all being treated to round 2 of as though it was their right to put it on the schedule.

"Democracy".

Sounds like everyone involved has had their job for entirely too long, no doubt decades too long in some cases.

Trump won because he embraced the "fuck it all" voters.

.. and there are a lot of those.

I'd like to see Biden address them, and he probably already did, we just didn't hear about it because the media turned down his microphone years ago. He needs to show his balls on TV to get attention.

People attribute a lot more competence to the DNC then they've really demonstrated.

Like yeah HRC might have legitimately thought that way about Trump, but if her own campaigning didn't win the election for herself suggesting it's what put Trump over the finish line or even that it was of any significant contribution is pretty disingenuous.

Not to mention how the DNC and HRC aren't able to mind control voters, like 99% of attempts to make Trump into the DNC boogeyman's fault ignore the choice voters made to vote for him or to just not vote for Clinton, and the "shoved Clinton down our throats" narrative is pretty racist since it basically casts Clinton's primary win through significant support by the black and poc vote as illegitimate.

We almost had a double down on that shit in 2020 but the "low information voter" dog whistlers just decided to blame everything on Clyburn this time.

Hubris may have lead to Clinton’s loss but Trump voters made him win. If the powers that be didn’t fully understand the hostility of voters that lead to Trump’s victory then maybe they are not as smart as they think they are but not actively malicious. Trump is actively malicious and surrounds himself with the same. The Democratic Party may have tipped the scales a bit for Hillary but they also must have thought she would get the most votes and was one of the most qualified candidates from either party. I’m not going to defend the two party system but only one is pushing for ranked choice voting, electing by popular vote, and reducing voting restrictions. Not voting or third party isn’t going to make this any better