Posted on 11/06/2024 4:25:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Her campaign pitch was moving, even high-minded. If Vice President Kamala Harris were elected to the White House, she would safeguard the ideals of a good nation. Voters had a choice, she said: democracy, constitutional rights and bedrock freedoms — or Donald J. Trump’s “chaos and division.”
On Tuesday, the nation replied. The answer from more than half of voters seemed to dismiss warnings that Mr. Trump was a threat to principles on which the country had been founded. Abstract truths mattered less, voters said, than tangible issues, like the ability to pay rent or concerns over border crossings. In a time of widespread distrust in institutions, Ms. Harris’s call to protect the nation’s norms rang hollow for many Americans.
In more than 200 interviews across the country in the four days preceding the election, voters, especially in swing states, spoke not of endangered democracy or institutions but of diminished prospects. Their words echoed repeated pre-election polling that showed that majorities of Americans believed the nation was headed in the wrong direction, even as the pandemic had ebbed, the rate of inflation was falling and crime and unemployment rates had remained historically low.
“Electric, water, groceries, my dues for where I live,” said Mary Chastain, 74, a retiree on a fixed income who voted for Mr. Trump on Tuesday in Waleska, Ga., a city of roughly 1,000 people in a rural stretch north of Atlanta. “Everything has gone up.”
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oh, I guess I was watching a different campaign than they were. Since when is “Call Me Daddy” high minded?
Obviously the Democratic party’s voters are racist and sexist.
In 2020, they voted for the old white man who had been in politics for almost 50 years instead of the strong black women of color.
In 2024, twenty million of the Democratic party voters that voted in 2020, sat this election out rather than vote for Kamala Harris, a strong black independent woman.
Who’s the racist now? Huh? Who’s the sexist now?
Nonsense. Her word salads were neither abstract nor tangible, and there was no truth to them. They were aimless fluff. A jumble of cheap banal slogans. And they were 100% insincere. The only time she spoke with conviction is when her hatred and avarice peaked through.
Democrat voters, for the most part, don’t seem to understand that their participation in the primary is just for show, as their votes don’t matter, assuming they even get to vote. In 2016 Hillary stole the nomination from Bernie through the super delegates. In 2020 Pete and Amy simultaneously withdrew from the primary to clear the way for Joe. In 2024 Joe withdrew from the race after the primaries and Kamala was anointed without having received a single vote. So I want to have Democrats explain the democratic process when their vote in the primary doesn’t mean squat anymore. Donald Trump won all three primaries through the votes he received in those primaries.
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