I legitimately did not believe it was possible for this to happen. There’s always a hateful minority but I believe people as a whole are good. How did this happen?

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    An outsider perspective of someone who cares a lot about US politics mostly because of Ukraine war:

    Turns out actively insulting potential voters rather than giving a positive plan for the future doesn’t work very well. Somehow in the last months Harris managed to be even more racist and sexist than Trump, which is amazing.

    Add to all of that complete denial about real economic problems most middle class people are facing, even going so far to say the country is doing well economically.

    As I said, my personal concern is 1. Ukraine, 2. global state of LGBT rights. EU needs to step up it’s military game by a lot. But I completely understand why Harris lost. Her domestic policy is a complete failure.

    • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      Its a Good Thing Trump didn’t insult ANYBODY during his campaign and Promised his voters Economic Hardship!

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        11 days ago

        Uh… Harris’s goal wasn’t to convince voters she was better than Trump. That much was obvious, and also not nearly enough to win her the election.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Somehow in the last months Harris managed to be even more racist and sexist than Trump, which is amazing.

      What the actual fuck are you talking about?

      • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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        11 days ago

        The Harris campaign sent a constant message that gender and race are the most important thing about a person and must determine their status in society.
        For example black and latino people were told they must vote for Harris because of their race, women were told they must vote because of their gender. And insulted by Harris supporters if they showed any doubt.

        Lemmy crowd is extreme in that regard. A lot of people here don’t even see the problem with that train of thought.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          No, the Harris campaign pointed out that Trump would continue the racist and sexist policies from his first term again. She wasn’t saying women should vote for her because they are women. She said people should vote for her to peotect women’s rights.

          The whole ‘you don’t hsve to let your husband know how you voted’ was a logical response to conservatives making women afraid their husbands would know who they voted for.

          • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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            11 days ago

            The whole ‘you don’t hsve to let your husband know how you voted’ was a logical response to conservatives making women afraid their husbands would know who they voted for.

            “your husband is secretly your enemy, lie to him”
            I like to believe that most people at least like their spouse. And now you have a campaign trying to convince you your husband is an enemy. I understand it was aimed only towards those in abusive relationships, but it didn’t sound like that. Tone deaf at the very least.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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      11 days ago

      I don’t get what you mean by Harris being more racist and sexist, but I agree that the campaign failed to change perception of failure despite how much they succeeded.