• FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Harris was popular when she first announced.

    I don’t think she was popular when first announced, rather the fact that not-Biden was popular.

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      15 hours ago

      I’m convinced that Biden would have won.

      I personally believe that this is not Biden’s or Kamala’s fault. It’s the old-school Democrat establishment’s fault. They did Bernie dirty in 2016. And then they did the same to Biden in these elections. Lichtman predicted a Biden win, bad debate performance and all, and the dems fucked it up.

      To be transparent, I still believed Lichtman when he said Harris would win. I will never believe in his stuff again, unless he adds new keys or something.

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        14 hours ago

        I personally believe that this is not Biden’s or Kamala’s fault. It’s the old-school Democrat establishment’s fault. They did Bernie dirty in 2016. And then they did the same to Biden in these elections.

        Yes. Every time, even in 2020 when the mood of the country was very different, they are afraid to run anything other than center-right candidates because they “aren’t electable”. Guess what - your corporatist center-right candidates are consistently priming people to receive the protectionist messages from the fascists, Maybe fucking try something different some time, fucking DNC!

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            14 hours ago

            In the words of my boomer mother, “Things aren’t going to get better until the boomers die off.”