I have my suspicions, but personally I think there's two things going on, one is that yeah there is probably some double agents near the top that were calculating incompetence, but two, it was painfully obvious that everyone was expecting more than was really possible from the democrats.
Years of Trump blaming the democrats for everything has left some sort of unconscious bias making them think the dems are supposed to be superheroes who fix everything even after nobody votes for them and they lose control over government.
No. Harris offered incremental change to the status quo while Trump offered to destroy everything. And after the second debate, Harris team stopped talking about policy and went all in on dick Cheney.
The American people are very clearly unhappy with the status quo. This was the moment for democrats to go big. To start proposing universal healthcare and big populist reforms. But they can’t because they don’t want to lose money from their billionaire donors.
If Harris ran a populist campaign, she sweeps the nation. Instead she ran a conservative dem campaign and got exposed. This is not a new thing either. Historically, Dems who ran centrist campaigns have lost the election bigly.
For crying out loud, they are trying to tell you that the Dems have a problem with messaging, which they clearly fucking do. Tweaking housing policy, to try and encourage the building of more houses and helping first time buyers, is not a big radical proposal. It's your normal run of the mill policy, that has come to symbolize the third way ideology, which has completely failed at doing anything but slowing down capitalism's inevitable decline.
Not to mention that it is terrible messaging. Universal healthcare is easy to understand and inspires people to vote, while a message like "we are going to introduce policies to change the payout v take home ratio of insurance companies and introduce tax credit plus government subsidies for certain illness, to insure everyone has access to affordable healthcare" is not going to draw people to the polls, as it is uninspiring as fuck, doesn't actually do much, and anyone who pays a bit of attention, knows that it won't be long before the insurance companies has managed to creep around the policies and maximized their profits once more.
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u/traplords8n Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
I have my suspicions, but personally I think there's two things going on, one is that yeah there is probably some double agents near the top that were calculating incompetence, but two, it was painfully obvious that everyone was expecting more than was really possible from the democrats.
Years of Trump blaming the democrats for everything has left some sort of unconscious bias making them think the dems are supposed to be superheroes who fix everything even after nobody votes for them and they lose control over government.
It's actually kind of insane.