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It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

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[-] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

You must be young. Because Republicans will vote for a criminal before they vote for "communism". Because the Republicans attempt to destroy the educational system to keep people dumb enough to vote for them has worked. Because dispite the corporate media pandering and acting like they want Harris Because that's what their viewers want, their billionaire owners don't. They want the republican led centrist enabled tax breaks on their money. Harris has also brought in the progressives which have zero tolerance for the centrist mindset. She is in a situation where she has to dance a dance of trying to reel in the progressives even though they are going to throw a fit when she panders to the centrists and the corporate overlords.

The system is made and controlled by the billionaires. No hard progressive that doesn't play the game a little is going to get elected... right now. They will destroy anyone that threatens their billions. Everytime she goes a little too hard left they throw a fit.

Welcome to end stage capitalism.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

No hard progressive that doesn't play the game a little is going to get elected...

Poor Bernie...

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I still Bern myself, though at least Harris's votes have aligned with Bernie's more than any other congressman.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I still wonder where we would be if he won in 2016

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That's a suffering trap because we all know 1) how good it would have been, and 2) A true progressive will never be allowed the nomination as long as the DNC exists in its current form.

Better to use that time to figure out what up and coming politicians have Bernie's heart for when the future sentiment shifts.

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.

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