I agree with both you and the meme. You're right that everyone should have sucked it up and voted for Kamala anyway. The meme is right because the Dems fucked this royally at several stages. Yes, American voters have made a decision that I massively disagree with... But you also have to recognise the vast political mistakes the party have made that led to this point.

Thank you. Republicans did all these things and won. These posts look like a narrative being pushed to divide us further.

I voted for her. This meme is still correct.

blame the whole fucking electorate. buncha fucking clowns pissed off because eggs cost $5 or some shit. the fuck is gonna happen when there's tariffs on everything and no one working the fucking vegetable fields? what happens when the republicunts generate 8 trillion in new debt?

the fuck is gonna happen to the price of eggs?

Turnout didn't change for Trump. In fact it was less than 2020. What happened was a repeat of 2016, this is the third time they put up an establishment candidate, when it's been glaringly obvious Americans on the left and right are tired of that. The DNC is going to eat a lot of the blame this time--if not the majority, there are hardly any excuses this time.

They'd rather have Trump than a non establishment candidate they can't control.

This election has a remarkable ability to make people forget about the magic of Multiple Causes ™️

But it's of course overwhelmingly the nazis' fault, yes.

3 groups of eligible voters. Trump voters. Harris voters, and 3rd party/abstainers.

Yes, the first group to be upset with are trump voters. But largely they arent here, so discussion and memes focus on the other group, the abstainers.

There's plenty of blame to go around. One thing a politician needs to do is effectively sell themselves to the people who will be voting. Harris spent a lot of time selling herself to Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/kamala-harris-progressives-democrats.html

The people who voted for the fascists were always going to vote for the fascists.

I have no need or desire to argue with you about it. There is no end to people smarter and more eloquent than I who are explaining the exact same thing in more detail than I could, from Bernie Sanders to Rolling Stone.

Blame them and the fake leftists trying to pretend democrats lost for not being left enough. Both are responsible for the impending fascism.

So when we burning it down? It'd be better to start now, not 3 years from now.

People were stoked when she stepped in for Biden, but that was largely a result of Biden's unpopularity. Then she spent her campaign not building any distance between herself and him

People were happy she's at least coherent, but she didn't exactly impress when she ran in the 2020 primaries, in fact, there were some stories after the fact about how badly that campaign was run.

Harris was an improvement over Biden, she wasn't Bernie or AOC, but miles ahead of Trump. I'd take Biden at this point, hell Biden with dementia would be better than what we got.

Lmao I voted Kamala Harris but she fucking did worse than Hillary. Hillary at least won the popular vote.

"Stoked" is definitely a word. "Mildly relieved but a little pissed" is a more accurate phrase.

in the same way one is stoked to find out it's herpes and not full-blown aids, yes.

Stoked, lol. Relieved is more like it. Biden and Kamala were a fucking embarrassment for Democrats. The DNC annointed a geriatric and a wildly unpopular VP for 2020. It's a fucking miracle they won.

Then she started up with the “drill, baby, drill!” and the “build the wall!” and the “genocide is fine”…

Speaking only for myself - sure - until she abandoned all progressive stances and sprinted for the right, then allowed a Cheney (and other Republicans) to speak at the DNC while also refusing to give even a minute of podium time to anyone with a pro-Palestine viewpoint.

She turned right the moment she announced the candidacy and just kept moving further and further, as if somehow 1) All D votes were in the bag so it didn't matter if they were pissed and also 2) R was going to give any D candidate the time of day.

Didn't work out so well. It turns out that trying to become the watered down version of your opponent doesn't win a lot of good favor among the folks who put you in that position in the first place.

Aye.
People are upset, I get that, that's perfectly fine to acknowledge one's emotions.
Now what?
The next step is reflecting on the failure.

That's how you learn from errors, not just in elections, but literally anything. It's certainly more useful than pretending everything was perfect and there's nothing that could've went differently, that's just defeatism.
Criticizing and reflecting to be more self-aware of flaws and strengths, to grow.

Then you can make new goals and strategies for the future and kick future's butt.

Well that's the problem, innit? The orange shit heap will get a good chunk of votes from the idiots no matter what. So the other candidate needs to be an A grade to attract the rest of the votes, otherwise the pile of feces will win. At this point it's obvious the diarrhea puddle can do whatever he wants and still get his share of votes, so asking why he can do and say whatever and get away with it is pointless.