Why she deserved to lose: Gaza genocide
Why she actually lost: voters inappropriately blaming democrats for the high inflation in 2021-2023
- (it wasn’t really Biden’s fault or the democrats’ fault, it was a global issue and pretty much every country has dealt with high inflation in the last few years. The US’s inflation has been about average internationally, maybe even a bit lower than average.)
Why this sucks:
- since Gaza protest voters weren’t actually a difference maker, there’s not as much opportunity for us to agitate about it as we would’ve liked. Liberals will probably be dismissive of the argument that Harris lost because of her position about Gaza, and they’ll be right; it just doesn’t really hold up.
- the liberal smugness about ignorant voters that we’re surely going to see in the next few weeks is… actually kind of correct.
Let me know if you think I’m wrong about any of this. I’d kind of like to be wrong, honestly.
over half of inflation was corporate price gouging.
they could have gone after that. guillotined a few CEOs who exploited covid to jack up prices and squeeze more money out of everyone. if they had clawed back the excess profits and sent everyone refund checks from the seized profits of price gouging. they would have won in a landslide.
people love getting a check of free money.
Or hey, even just telling people truth behind the inflation, as you explained. Instead they told people everything is fine, we’re going to bring decorum back. What a compelling message!
The problem is actutally they said inflation’s a big issue and they’re going to fix it….as if they’re not in power right now and it’s, simultaneously, beyond their control.
I think it’s pretty irrefutable she lost Michigan’s large block of Muslim voters over the genocide.
since Gaza protest voters weren’t actually a difference maker, there’s not as much opportunity for us to agitate about it as we would’ve liked.
Liberals don’t really care if the stats aren’t obvious. Just enough to make them sweat. Simply assert they would’ve won if they hadn’t doubled down on genocide.
The stats aren’t even necessarily wrong on this. People not voting are the primary cause of Harris’ defeat and being uninterested in a soulless genocider is a good reason to stay home.
It’s a mistake to treat these issues as disconnected. People saw the Biden administration writing blank checks to Ukraine and Israel when they were struggling to make ends meet. Foreign policy had both a material effect and a perceived effect on the economy, and people might not have a correct understanding of exactly how or why but I’m inclined to believe people made some connections there.
Obviously it’s disappointing that more people aren’t opposed to genocide on principle, but there are people who blame it for interrupting their treats, or who are upset about treat disruption resulting from it but don’t connect the two.
I would probably also add on that they did nothing to seperate her from and the average voter probably hates him now even more than they hate her.
Also if they continue to insist on running on being diet Republicans they need to run a ticket with a white man as the president and probably a man as the VP too. At this rate Ivanka is probably gonna be the first woman to be president of the US.
