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The problem wasn't voter turnout. I get a lot of hate for saying this, but facts bear out. The last three election cycles had the highest voter turnout and the highest youth voter turnout in American history.
This means one or more of several things:
Genocide was just a performative stance for most voters and they would have voted how they voted no matter what, it's just a validation for hating Harris so much for aesthetic or tonal reasons that they couldn't put a finger on.
The election was rigged in some way, which is very possible but not in the overt way we tend to think of. If you combine enough small-scale tactics of voter-suppression in key areas by slim margins, combined with tomfoolery in voting machines in key areas by just barely enough margins again that enough areas pushed red, and of course large-scale social manipulation thats been at play for years and years now that has given many people the validation to hate minorities and women enough that even people of color voted against their best interest.
People have let their fucking brains ooze out their goddamn ears across the whole Western population. We don't see how bad the situation really is, because the people who browse forums are NOT the people who drive to work every day listening to AM radio and working 6 days a week and only get their news from Facebook for an hour every other Sunday night. But it's bad, it's very, very bad and I am worried not enough of the thinking people see just how dumb and confused the average median voter is. They literally had no idea if there was a meaningful difference between people like Biden, Harris or Trump. There has been waves of post-election exit-polling and the number one issue people cared about was the price of groceries and they heard Trump scream about it and Harris deliver lines that "sounded like Biden, and he was the one in charge when prices went up."
The Democrat party broadly is not an opposition party and many people sense it. They are the enemy character in the WWE spectacle narrative that people are engaged with, and Trump and his band of overtly evil nazis and fascists are more "cool" and people love to hate them even as they hate to love them, because we are unevolved creatures that care more for stories than outcomes.
I don't think there's fixing this. I think we're kind of fucked for at least a generation or two, and that's assuming it shifts back towards progress at some point. Short of a large-scale disaster that literally cuts off people's food and luxuries, we have to hunker down and survive. Or leave the country, but the problem is spreading.
All those "did biden drop out?" searches the night of the election are haunting.
I don't understand how so many people are so profoundly ignorant and stupid. I guess a poor educational foundation followed by shit media would do it?
My friends and associates tend to be pretty educated, literate, and wealthy. I don't know what's going on down in the depths.
Yep. I have heard some rather "centrist" types and a whole lot of low info types ascribing blame for inflation (and the companies using it as an excuse to price-gouge) on Biden, when our country did fairly well compared to international numbers and recovered fairly quickly. Doesn't matter though - Taco said a bunch of shit about it on his campaign, and these people think Biden pulled some lever somewhere to make their groceries go up.
Doesn't help that a lot of WELLAXETUALLY types will pop up to do some bothsiderism and talk about "the status quo" and how the numbers are not really the entire picture and so on, further muddying the waters.
Voter turn out was kind if an issue. I get we had record turn out but non voting is still very large
Exactly this. Democrats basically went: "I voted for the dems 4 years ago and my life didn't get better, why bother voting"