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In reply to the discussion: Democrats don't blame Harris. In fact, many want her back in 2028. [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,213 posts)I do disagree about the VP choice.
As for losing to the worst possible Republican, what do you think happened in 2016. We had the most qualified person ever to run for president lose to the least qualified ever. But Hillary or Kamala would each make a better president than any republican that ever ran.
I think that we are proving that America is misogynistic. Even on DU and at Democratic events I have attended, you get the scent of sexism wafting about. That doesn't mean that we can't run women for the office. If we don't, the first woman president will be someone like mtg. You forgot to tell me what republican candidate would be more qualified to be president than Harris.
A primary would have put Democrats at each other's throats. In fighting that formed animosities that would have cut off large blocks of voters. No. I think we just have peak stupidity in America right now. That is why we can't ignore russia, corporates, and the biased media. We need a James Carville rapid response team. Every bot meme, every corporate connection, every samism interview exposed immediately with as loud and wide a response as possible. The complacent and connected media is the biggest problem. We need to be developing a sister system to their propaganda. I think we believe the public will see through the lies, but I think this last election proved conclusively that we are at the tipping point of stupid. Democrats like to think well of the public, but the public doesn't think well. If we are to win, we must adjust our message for a more selfish, less thoughtful, absolutely scared public. We have bread and butter issues that appeal to the general mass, but we keep burying our message in policy statements. The gibbon scares them with lies about Mexicans eating their puppies. We can scare them with the truth about billionaires taking away their health care. Generally, we play too nice. We can do what they do using the truth they way they use lies.
(For a clarification of my references to stupid, see Carlo M. Cipolla and the five laws of supidity.)