Summary
Gender bias played a significant role in Kamala Harrisās defeat, with many votersāoften womenāexpressing doubts about whether āAmerica is ready for a female president.ā
Some said they ācouldnāt see her in the chair,ā or questioned if a woman could lead, with one even remarking, āyou donāt see women building skyscrapers.ā Though some voters were open to persuasion, this often became a red line.
Oliver Hall, a Harris campaign volunteer, found that economic concerns, particularly inflation, also drove voters to Donald Trump, despite low unemployment and wage growth touted by Democrats.
Harris was viewed in conflicting ways, seen as both too tough and too lenient on crime, as well as ineffective yet overly tied to Bidenās administration.
Ultimately, Hall believes that Trumpās unique appeal and influence overshadowed Harrisās campaign efforts.
Are you suggesting this movement only exists in peopleās minds? I think Iād agree.
A couple of national pseudo celebrity politicians are not going to personally organize the type of movement youād need to make any actual progress on anything in this country.
They keep telling us we need to build it, and then we keep deferring to celebrities and politicians at the top because we donāt want to build it. So we lean on the dnc. You get who shows up. Iām in CA and I looked during the pandemic for some mutual aid whatever in my area. There was one and as far as I could tell it shut down before I even knew about it.
All movements only exist in peopleās minds, until thereās something for them to set in motion, a plan for them to execute.
The thing we need to build is a political movement. As you pointed out, very few people have any idea about anything, let alone politics. I think the movement is bigger than just 5 million, thatās just the nihilistic partā¦ Iād think maybe 15-20 million are truly onboard to some degree in their minds, and even more to a lesser degree, they just donāt know what their supposed to do because they arenāt politics experts. Also whenever a true leader emerges they end up getting elected, (and apparently later they then get pushed back out by big money and Israel, who knew?) but once theyāre elected theyāre legitimately too busy to lead anymore.
People lean on the DNC because the DNC leans on themā¦ The DNC demands loyalty from people whoās loyalty they could get by actually doing what they want, instead theyāre chasing after loyalty from people whoās loyalty they could never possibly get. Itās insanity, and itās insulting. And the more they do it the more the lines between them begin to blur until theyāve moved so far to the right that the group to the left of them starts to look big enough to go without themā¦ If someone could unite them. But, the same people who own the media companies pay for the Dems campaignsā¦ the Dems control all the levers of political organizing on the left and like 6 companies control all the levers of mass communication, so the politically illiterate group kinda need the Dems apparatus to be able to make their thing workā¦ And the more the Dems refuse to cooperate, the more it starts to seem like maybe theyāre truly just not on the same team.