Posted on 11/18/2024 11:37:51 AM PST by DallasBiff
n the aftermath of Kamala Harris’s loss, many pundits and politicians are turning to a familiar scapegoat. Critics like Adam Jentleson, a former aide to senators Harry Reid and John Fetterman, claim that “woke” advocacy groups made Democrats adopt extreme policies and drove voters away from the Democratic Party, sealing Donald Trump’s victory. But the truth is simpler—and more uncomfortable for the Democratic establishment. Despite the noise, voters didn’t reject Harris because of leftist rhetoric or activist slogans.
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America rejected wokeness.
Some mass media types think in rigid categories which lead to dumb conclusions.
Fallacy 1: The issues are what the Democrats say they are.
Fallacy 2: The Democrat speeches and public statements define the issues.
Fallacy 3: If “issues polls” do not identify an issue then it is not an issue.
All are totally false because:
1. Voters can vote because of any reason or reasons they want. Voters decide the issues that matter to them.
2. Nobody believes Democratic candidate talking points any more. They are raw sewage, lies and totally irrelevant.
3. When you start censoring, canceling and banning “hate speech” then don’t expect folks to tell you what they really think about issues in “issue polls”, particularly if what they really care about is considered “hate speech” by the Democrats and therefore cannot be on any “issues list”.
Women were telling me they outnumbered men in voting participants and they were going to absolutely swamp the Republican vote.
HmmmmpF?
How would that be possible since we are nearly evenly divided on what form of governance we choose?
The only way to win is defeat the other side by demotivating them, which results in fewer voters.
Women let down
Ms K
WNBA
and
LPGA
It was all about wokeness! Americans just got tired of this LGBTQZ++++++ crap pushed on us by every DEI Hollywood weirdo and educational expert!
This is pure BS. The deluded leftist children at The Nation are lying to themselves.
Harris lost because she is an unlikable, inept, incapable, DEI idiot. She was a phony, liar, incoherent, nonsensical, babbling drunk/stoned moron.
Americans expect excellence in their elected leaders, it doesn’t always work out that way, but she was so far below the bar, no one took her as a serious candidate.
Their radical platform was part of it, but Obama & Biden managed to carry it out. Not so, the radical Cali. AG.
Oh puhleeazee… it absolutely was leftist talking points that sank the campaign.
They even tried to sneak in “coz Democrats are raaciss!” Lines
I love that Waleed is selling this drivel. I hope the left buys it hook/line/sinker so the Democrats slip into a 50 year electoral winter!
Proggies proclaiming that it wasn’t their fault. Consider the source.
Her leftism didn’t help but she was sunk before she started.
Less than 30% of the voters believed she country is on the right track and that number has been that low for years.
You don’t get promoted for being a abject failure
Your last item (no.3) is dead-on. If I was a moderate democrat (perish the thought) I would want to tell the progressives that their transgender positions are segregating them from mainstream Americans. There are plenty of 70’s feminists who fought for Title 9 and don’t want actual men competing in women’s sports and using the women’s locker-room. This is a very valid, common-sense position that a wide range of political people can take.
But because the “progressive” position is so indefensible, they just call you a name (fascist, Hitler, redneck, etc.) or say it is “hate speech” just so they don’t have to logically defend their position. Classic “ad hominem” argument.
Well, religious people were removed from her concerts and pep rallies. Jesus and his Catholics weren’t allowed.
Shahid is like George Soros— another billionaire leftwing cancer. His diagnosis is that the democrats didn’t go far enough left, soon enough to suit him.A fun read, if you want to see a guy making a parody of himself. In reality he is mightily po’d because Harris absconded with his millions of donations and didn’t come across.
The Dogma Block is very strong in the Nation Magazine. It goes back to some notable examples of them shilling for Stalin in the 1930s and for the Khmer Rouge of Killing Fields infamy in the 1970s,
He makes an excellent point, but I’m still going with misogyny and racism. I can’t think of any other reasons why people wouldn’t vote for her
What Did = Her Stupidity and Ignorance
Some things you just can’t hide no matter how much you giggle.
Biden sunk her for revenge. He knew she couldn’t win so he endorsed her before Obama could bring in Big Mike.
That’s pretty much it, Fireone.
The bottom line is I refuse to vote for any candidate whose IQ is lower than mine
Three hundred word excerpt limit, right?
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