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And the sad thing is they're right.
No they aren't, and with that attitude we will continue to repeat this mistake over and over and over.
The people want change. A lot of change. You can work 40 hours a week and barely scrape by paycheck to paycheck, and it's been like that for years. Housing is even more unaffordable.
Nothing has changed for years.
People are angry.
Donald Trump taps into that. That is his whole message. That he is an outsider, he is not the status quo, he is the one who shakes things up. He does not listen to PR people. He says what's on his mind. He is the closest thing to a Bulworth candidate we've had in quite some time.
I personally think he is a liar and a criminal, but not everybody shares that view.
What does Kamala have going for her? She is the vice president, next in line of a succession. There is no radical reform there. It is status quo. And let's not forget that before Biden dropped out and Kamala was crowned successor, she was pulling very low even among Democrats.
The problem is not that America refuses to hand the country over to a woman. The problem is that the DNC keeps putting forward the wrong people as candidates, and expects the whole nation to vote for them simply because they're not Republican. It doesn't work that way.
My point is though, as long as you blame sexism or racism or whatever for Trump's win, you hide the real problem and thus prevent it from being fixed.
It NEEDS to be fixed.
For the good of the country, we (Dems) cannot expect people to just vote for us because we're not Republican. We need to offer them something better. Obama did that. That's why he won. Hope, change, yes we can. That was something better. And so he defeated a real non-crazy Republican.
Whoever is the next Democratic candidate, they need to do that. Offer a real message and a real plan. Not just 'I'm not red'.
No. People wanted Michelle Obama but nobody was given a choice.
You have to want to run for president. I don't think she did.
Who knows? What is she suppose to say? There was never a primary. They just pushed a genocide co-pilot on us when it could have been an easy W. That's their priorities.
I mean she literally said she didn't want to. And that was long before Harris was the nominee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/michelle-obama-former-first-lady-not-running-president-2024-rcna141767
In fact, she's been saying it repeatedly since 2012.
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-michelle-obama-has-said-about-running-for-president-list-2024-7 (You can put 12ft.io in front of the https to get around the paywall.)
Now you can claim she's been lying since 2012, but I don't think that's desirable in a candidate, do you?