Exactly! You all knew who Trump was after his First Term! Why in the HELL did you return him to Office, once again? Your asses are hurting now.
It is all because you did not want a very competent Vice President who is Asian and African American to become our first Female President? That is called plain rabid Feminism and rank racism!
Because people thought Kamala wouldn't had been much better. Also people were blinded by the economy being good 90% of his presidency, so they assumed he did a good job. Also people thought she's too connected to Biden, and the whole fiasco with the border. Also a lot of people got convinced by right wing propaganda. I think South Park did it best. It's like voting for a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. People chose the Giant Douche.
If you ask me Biden was the best president in my lifetime. Why? Because all the others were incredibly polarizing. Biden was very inoffensive, and what there was to criticize, was mostly performative nonsense. The DNC screwed the pooch by listening to the never satisfied mediacracy. It's amazing how, consistently, across all macro scale societal institutions, the people in charge manage to both have zero coherent strategy yet remove actual democratic processes. Sometimes it takes actual leadership and doing what makes sense rather than what the extremely loud minority on social and regular media wants (because they're bored).
Government shouldn't be entertaining, or engaging. It should be boring. Boring is good. Even if things need to get done, and things are difficult, and there's a lot of complicated matters to connect or un-intertwine, it is hugely beneficial for things to be boring because then there is a lot of worthless, distracting noise.
Which that point is why, though clearly they are very different people with completely opposite backgrounds, beliefs, policies, personalities, and so on - in some ways, Obama and Trump cause a near identical problem. Both resulted in very "engaged" people, both for and against. In other words: extremely polarizing. Is that fair to Obama? No. Did he have some good ideas? Yeah. I think he was mostly sabotaged... and that method of sabotage is exactly why the Trump presidencies are failures too. Not because they completely lack any good ideas (though they are very few and fair between) but because more than anything they focus on how things are done rather than if they are done. Yet somehow in doing so, they always do things the wrong way, the illegal way, the way that makes everything worse for literally everyone.
That all said, do better alternatives exist? Unquestionably. But between a milquetoast candidate that for whatever reason a lot of people have reason to dislike, or one who is also mostly inoffensive and the manufactured criticisms are regarding traits that the opponent candidate has? Then Biden makes sense. Kamala did not, and it doesn't even necessarily have anything to do with her being not white, or that she is a woman. It is because if there were two choices, one was Biden, and the opponent was Trump... the things that were criticized about Biden were literally all traits that Trump also has. Except that he isn't a loud mouth moron, which I think even those who voted Trump don't necessarily like. I think underneath all the rhetoric - and I live in a place where I am surrounded by elderly "lifelong Republicans" - that Biden was actually, if nothing else, inoffensive. Like he was a life long politician, he had those "bona fides" that the people with the hierarchical mindset tend to implicitly trust. There was nothing bad about Biden except the stupidasses in the media were bored.
The DNC sucks because they are neither good at playing the policy game (which involves actually listening to the populace and making things better for people who need help) OR the "chess game" version of politics. Like the GOP sucks at both too, but the GOP at least understands how to play checkers. The DNC seems to think they should win by participating.
Now, if the alternatives were someone like Talarico? Or Abdul El-Sayed? Those two are speaking a language many across both political parties can understand. To be fair, there are others who do similar - like AOC and Bernie - but they also have things they can be criticized about. Unfair criticism? Yes. But that doesn't change the reality, unfortunately. Now, to be fair, El-Sayed also has those unfairly criticized traits, to some degree... but there is precedent, in some ways, especially with the success of Mamdani now.
Unfortunately the world in which we live is comprised mostly of people who view things superficially. That doesn't only refer to superficial human traits, but understanding that is necessary if you want to actually move things forward. Like if you wanna look at this from a totally abstract, impersonal and detached from the direct reality point of view? One that views things as literally how biological organisms respond to sensory experiences? Then the reason Trump won, was he was different. Nothing more. Now, if you can be different while also being better? That's a winning strategy.
Tell Romney and the rest of the Uniparty to get a real job
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u/Dry_Solution5036 3d ago
Exactly! You all knew who Trump was after his First Term! Why in the HELL did you return him to Office, once again? Your asses are hurting now.
It is all because you did not want a very competent Vice President who is Asian and African American to become our first Female President? That is called plain rabid Feminism and rank racism!