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Harris only received five percent of Republican votes — less than the six percent Joe Biden won in 2020 when he beat Trump, as well as the seven percent won by Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to him. While Harris won independents and moderates, she did so by smaller margins than Biden did in 2020.

Meanwhile, Harris lost households earning under $100,000, while Democratic turnout collapsed. Votes are still being counted, but Harris is on pace to underperform Biden’s 2020 totals by millions of votes.

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 103 points 2 weeks ago

The Republicans had their little tea party a few years ago. The Democrats need a Guillotine Party to properly represent us.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 43 points 2 weeks ago

The Tea Party forced the GOP to rebrand and restructure itself around the most extreme right wing ideas possible

Occupy Wallstreet tried to do the same thing, and... were savagely beaten by the police over it.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 weeks ago

Because the Tea Party was useful to just make the Republicans more unapologetically anti-government (something rich people like) while Occupy was demanding that Democrats become unapologetically antagonistic to rich people.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

The police choose who they will protect and who they will serve.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

the police have no choice. They are owned by the billionaire and exist to protect wealth and privilege.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 27 points 2 weeks ago

They had the billionaire Koch's to fund that. We're never getting a billionaire to fund the leopard party that will eat their faces.

:(

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago

The guillotine party knows how to deal with the second estate.

[-] nxn@biglemmowski.win 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, there should have been limits set on campaign costs, lobbying, media, etc. It's at a point where it doesn't seem like it's even possible to have a middle-class focused campaign that can openly say its basis is on taxing the fuck out of the top 1%.

But all I know is this: the second Trump term will make the standard of life in America far worse for most people. There will be hunger in 2028 for someone to simply say "We'll fix the middle class, and we'll make Musk, Bezos, etc pay for it". Hopefully by then what's left of twitter will not be as relevant as today, so that the message can at least have a hope of spreading through social media successfully.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I want to be hopeful but I can't find a logical progression to that stage knowing what the Republicans plan to do and their stranglehold on popular social media. The population will continue to be brainwashed into thinking Trump gives a shit and see him helping while also being told right wing Democrats are communists...

No one else stands a chance when we have corporate media or right wing social media as our options. I know there was a socialist candidate this cycle and Lemmy was literally the only place I saw her.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

2028, I'll be campaigning on Squeeze the Billionaires Until the Pips Squeak.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Actually, the Guillotine Party sounds like a great idea.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Literally with that name. 😍

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