Reading how Harris couldn't convince the people she's anti-establishment, because she's not, in the Guardian. I don't understand why the Democrats have to jump through all these hoops and Trump just lied about the election and blathers about nonsense and grievances, and he gets in, I mean that's hardly a brilliant tactic, but democrats have to figure out how to beat that nonsense? That's what democrats are guilty of, not transcending people's ability to be duped by nonsense? They're guilty of having a coherent plan?
Some guy on Reddit was writing about the feeling of economic disaster people feel from inflation and people actually somehow were persuaded that Trump would be the solution?! To me that's just the population being stupid. I'm sorry to be so judgemental, but everything I read said that Harris' plans were much more likely to address inflation.
Here's my analysis of the elections. Unthinking dopes thought Trump would be better. He's not going to be, and they made a mistake. Sure Trump will, like a broken clock, be right twice a day, but he's not got a vision, he's out for himself, and his appointments to the cabinet have been exactly the opposite of what is needed. It's going to be painful to watch this shit show, and the faith that American institutions are going to be so robust that we'll be OK, isn't something I share.
American voters aren't likely to catch they got the best possible out of the worldwide inflation problems, and that rebelling against that is just going to be worse. For me that's not democrats not figuring it out, that's just Americans being stupid. Now political people should figure out how to pitch their message given that, but they were trying things. They had Liz Cheney.
How Americans were so ignorant about Trump's downsides and basic inability to really understand what is going on, that's not the democrats failure, that's just dumb luck.
The way people spin the "lessons" is just more self promotion and saying, see, we should have never abandoned the workers, or whatever agenda and then blah blah blah. Nobody really understands why Americans are so attracted to the just break everything, except perhaps as Freud's death instinct.
This article by Michael Bérubé has a similar theme, more on Gaza and Sanders. Here's an ending:
"We are now left to live with the bitter irony that many of those long-term investments in American manufacturing and infrastructure will bear fruit during Trump’s second term. Sometime in late January 2025, I suspect, we will begin to hear how Trump tamed inflation and reinvigorated the American working class simply by taking office. And we will continue to hear, as Bidenomics takes root and Trump takes the credit for its successes, that the Democrats lost by turning their backs on that working class."
America voted for Project 25, inflation and worse government. Honestly it makes me question democracy, but I'd rather fix it than abandon it. And that means it has to be a crime to lie in public forums. But that's a problematic notion because bias and perspectives create truths. If there's one thing Trump is really revolutionary about, it's his realizing the political potential of lying.
I think if our democratic systems were robust enough, he would have never gotten to the election. Judiciary and the press failed. He exposed their corruption. The rise of social media contributed. Education can't completely solve the problem either. Something new has to emerge ins response. Perhaps it's greater political involvement, resistance to evil, to wake people up.
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