hate to “BURST” your bubble, but Trump is destroying america and destroying the Republican do nothing party! and Democrats are winning hands down!
I’m not sure who she’s gonna actually end up hurting this time. I gotta imagine anyone who falls for the Jill Stein shtick is likely to fall for Trump’s too.
Preemptively rolling out that “Democrats losing is the fault of everyone except the Democrats” narrative, again.
Must have seen the MN polling numbers…
Jill Stein has my vote! Seriously, she took it. Can someone help me get it back?
This gives big “RFK Jr. will steal votes from Kamala”
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Don’t be shy lmao
It was nice to see the World News community finally realize that the DNC has been doing nothing but shooting themselves in the foot for a year.
Maybe this community will finally catch on and connect the dots between a random ass 3rd party getting blamed for stealing votes away from the Democrats, and Democrats not actually meeting the core demands of their constituency.
Or maybe not…
Yes, the party that gets 1% of the vote represents the will of the people, not the one that turns out record numbers of voters and routinely takes the national majority.
Maybe someday we’ll have people blame the DNC for choosing to back unpopular opinions/policies losing the popularity contest against “Literal Evil Fascist with the Playbook of How To Do Evil 101, but Fox News said it’s cool”.
But instead we need a new scapegoat for when Greens come in 4th place to the Libertarian’s “I just wanna date this 14 year old with my rifle and say the N-word out loud without backlash.”
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Maybe someday we’ll have people blame the DNC for choosing to back unpopular opinions/policies losing the popularity contest against
the DNC is choosing unpopular policy? Brother this is a representative democracy. If harris wins, it’s because it was the popular policy/stances. There is literally no alternative here unless you thing there is a deep state rigging the elections or that the majority of the american populous isn’t real or something lmao.
the DNC is choosing unpopular policy? Brother this is a representative democracy. If harris wins, it’s because it was the popular policy/stances.
Uhh… No. Fracking isn’t even popular as a majority position in PA where she’s pushing it. But she’s gonna anyways cause for some reason the minority is the “better” place to scrape votes from?
And in a 2 party system if one side is “literally evil” the other basically knows they have a blank check to run on as long as it’s not the same policy as the evil side or else why would voters swap sides when evil wasn’t a disqualifier?
We have polls that literally tell us what the popular positions are. Harris is not listening to those so whatever the reason is its not popularity.
Uhh… No. Fracking isn’t even popular as a majority position in PA where she’s pushing it. But she’s gonna anyways cause for some reason the minority is the “better” place to scrape votes from?
oh im sorry i didn’t realize kamala was running for the federal presidential role of PA specifically.
And in a 2 party system if one side is “literally evil” the other basically knows they have a blank check to run on as long as it’s not the same policy as the evil side or else why would voters swap sides when evil wasn’t a disqualifier?
this is sort of true, but a substantial chunk of US voters believe that kamala harris is the “evil” not donald trump. so this isn’t exactly a bull in a china shop situation here. This is more like a bull vaguely around a china shop.
We have polls that literally tell us what the popular positions are. Harris is not listening to those so whatever the reason is its not popularity.
i mean that’s a fair statement, but she wouldn’t be running on fracking if she thought it was detrimental, so it’s either not a huge concern for most voters, or there is something more than being let on in the rhetoric here.
At the very least we know kamala will more than likely support a real EPA, so maybe the idea is to push environmental concerns from fracking into the territory of the EPA and local areas, rather than doing a federal ban on fracking. Which i would be fully in support of. The EPA should absolutely have more power.
i mean that’s a fair statement, but she wouldn’t be running on fracking if she thought it was detrimental, so it’s either not a huge concern for most voters, or there is something more than being let on in the rhetoric here.
You’re begging the question here. If Democrats paid attention to their voters we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Generally, critics of Dem strategy believe that they are too beholden to wealthy donors.
Democrats blame Jill Stein for Clinton’s loss. But Dems can’t force her not to run again, or people not to vote for her. If Kamala doesn’t win, it will be because she didn’t convince enough people to vote for her, not because Jill Stein is running.
If Kamala doesn’t win, it will be because she didn’t convince enough people to vote for her, not because Jill Stein is running.
dems absolutely can’t handle this
You’re begging the question here. If Democrats paid attention to their voters we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Generally, critics of Dem strategy believe that they are too beholden to wealthy donors.
are you proposing that a candidate should work to appeal to 100% of their voter base, rather than the most broad constituent beliefs of it? The wealthy donor thing is a problem, over party lines, that’s an interesting one to solve so i’m not really surprised there.
But to be fair, if we did stop fracking, it might be detrimental to the oil market right now, considering the position that the global oil industry is in, is, less than ideal. So there is also a reason to push for fracking given the current global market at the moment.
Democrats blame Jill Stein for Clinton’s loss. But Dems can’t force her not to run again, or people not to vote for her. If Kamala doesn’t win, it will be because she didn’t convince enough people to vote for her, not because Jill Stein is running.
i consider this a voter skill issue, rather than a candidate issue, just vote for the better person lmao. Voting for stein is like voting for a brick wall, except one that wastes money.
a candidate should work to appeal to 100% of their voter base
Less a proposal and more of a fact: People won’t vote for a candidate who does not support the issues that they support. You can’t expect a voter who is against fracking to vote for a candidate who supports fracking.
If Kamala supports fracking and the majority of voters do not, it is up to her to change, not the voters.
i consider this a voter skill issue
Yeah… Democrats want to blame the voters so they can continue to court wealthy donors. If everyone in Michigan promises to “Vote Blue No Matter Who” then they can continue arming Israel without losing any Muslim votes. Unfortunately that’s not how things work.
Democracy, where you have freedom of speech except if you speak about Israel, or your own country war crimes, or your own country foreign policy, or trying to run for office if you are not Democrat or Republicans.
It seems no one is keeping Shill Stein from exercising her freedom of speech.
If Trump wins it’s not Jill Stein’s fault you psycho.
Technically you’re right. But it absolutely will be the non-voters fault, and considering that a vote for Shill Stein is the same thing as throwing away a vote for no good reason…
It’s say it’ll be her supports fault.
Or its an easy group to blam a cause they are visible and with same fancy logic and math you can pretend their votes belonged to the Democratic Party. You can’t just assume they would have voted that way. They can even write in. Non voters are an issue but blaming another group is liking blaming Jews because they work at the bank you think took your house.
Its crazy conspiracy and emotional logic at best.
Jesus fucking Christ. You win by getting more people to vote for you! If Harris loses, it will be her own fault.
Yea because of Biden and uhhhh the country on the other side of the globe killing its neighbors.
That’ll show her
🤡
Maybe they should stop sending unlimited bombs to the psychos air striking refugee tents?
It’s not about Harris losing, it’s about Trump winning. You’re either pragmatic and know that Harris is the only chance we have to prevent that, or you’re privileged as shit and know that you’ll survive the rise of Fascism if he wins. You definitely know you won’t be one of the millions of people he oppresses if your priority is anything but keeping Trump out of the White House.
If Kamala loses it will be her fault. The fact that we’ll all suffer for it is beside the point. You might think it’s irrelevant, but establishment Dems lose over and over again by ignoring what the left tells them, then they turn around and blame the left. Continuing to indulge their delusions just leads to more losses.
This really isn’t about Trump anymore. The Republican party has been transformed, and every single Republican candidate for the foreseeable future is going to be just as much a threat to democracy as Trump, if not more so.
The Greens hurt Democrats far less than the libertarians hurt Republicans, and neither is going anywhere. Democrats need to focus on being better candidates, not finding someone else to blame.
So Harris should pander better. Otherwise she’s clearly not taking the seriousness of a Trump win seriously enough. Pander better.
If Kamala loses of course it will be everyone else’s fault. Fucking race/class traitor neolib cop.
Yawn….
Typical.
Exactly. That’s why I yawned.
I blame your parents. You never had a chance little one…
Ahhh. The pure-as-a-dove civility of a far leftist when they have no argument.
Gotta love it.
guys it’s not that hard, all we have to do is to not vote for still jein.
… there were people voting for stein?
Apparently enough people are voting for her to inspire the Democrats to spend mone on ads against her.
i would hope not, but idk why else you would be running lmao
If you want to vote third party but don’t like the greens, the party for socialism and liberation is running de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood!
The two state solution has been the platform of most of the world for decades, I think Democratic president Bill Clinton most recently undertook a major effort to make it happen, but the two parties of course couldn’t agree and started fighting instead.
PSL and Greens, due to their unpopularity and belief in ideology over consensus, will never actually be in a position to broker internationally impactful diplomatic efforts.
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Sorry buddy, I’ve lived through enough presidential elections to know that you’re absolutely wrong.
“Both siders” do
A lot of them don’t even live in America, and a portion of those that do, aren’t old enough to vote. Those that remain are probably such a small percentage of the total so as to not really be relevant.
And we know for certain that there are quite a few “both-sides’ers” here on lemmy that have no legal vote because they’re foreign. As far as the age, that’s just a theory of mine.
Note: Jill is literally paid to run as a spoiler, and if you look at her actual policies, lot of transphobia, ablism, and support for pseudoscience
This shouldn’t surprise anyone considering her source.
