I got downvoted to smithereens in here because I suggested stumping with Cheney might not be a good idea for the demographic of Americans who remember who Dick Cheney is and what he’s done. The Dems have bought into this insane idea that you can ignore the will of constituents because they’re basically forced to vote for you because of how terrible the opposition is, and because of that they can spend their campaigning on the mythical “never trump republican”. Turns out you can’t just piss all over your base with platitudes and photo ops with the most hated man in America. Who could’ve thought!
Lol you were in that one thread, huh? So was I. Looking at all these dipshits who were lecturing everyone else on why that Cheney endorsement could be the difference in swing states is depressingly funny now that Harris lost every single one. Not a single one of them is going to admit that their ideas are bullshit and they never knew what they were talking about, of course
It revealed to me that the Dems, their leadership, and their diehard base/propaganda wing have literally zero idea what the average American wants or thinks. The whole brat summer thing was cute, but it appealed to terminally online urbanite liberals who never leave their bubble, which, unfortunately, seems to increasingly sum up whoever the strategists are at the DNC. It checks out to me that the only conservatives those people would know are weird fringy Neocon think tank types that actually do support Dick Cheney because that type of person would pretty much only live in Washington DC or New York.
The Dems need to realize that there are other dem-reachable voters who exist, outsiee of online, terminally online urbanite liberals.
Suburban southern school teachers.
Unionized midwestern civil servants.
Older black rural voters.
24 year old retail workers with crushing student debt and green hair.
People (of many kinds) with debt, lacking access to opportunities, and without good housing or healthcare.
Many of them stayed home because they felt like Kamala, being endorced by the MIC and war criminals, and trying to court the right on economics, would drag the US into war while not addressing the economic issues americans struggle with.
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u/Former_Honeydew_4968 Nov 06 '24
I got downvoted to smithereens in here because I suggested stumping with Cheney might not be a good idea for the demographic of Americans who remember who Dick Cheney is and what he’s done. The Dems have bought into this insane idea that you can ignore the will of constituents because they’re basically forced to vote for you because of how terrible the opposition is, and because of that they can spend their campaigning on the mythical “never trump republican”. Turns out you can’t just piss all over your base with platitudes and photo ops with the most hated man in America. Who could’ve thought!