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Yes, now you mentioned two issues.
Want me to add a few more, and you give your takes on those?
Let's start with a few easy ones:
You make the exact same mistake, too. You let people direct you towards a singular, specific, feels-driven point instead of trying to give an informed vote. Any large-scale politics is always going to be a hybrid vote. You won't have any even city-wide, nevermind state-wide candidate of any party (over here, I know it's only two for you folks :P ) where you agree with all of their stances.
But if you let someone train you to ignore the vast majority of stances in favor of just 1-2, I hopefully don't need to explain to you how you have effectively turned yourself into a voting-drone. You can be trivially led by anger and feeling, not by rational thought and informed vote. And especially on large-scale politics, the problem is not with immediate feels, in particular if people start putting those in power that want ot actively dismantle their own checks and balances. Because then even if they later decide differently, they cannot remove them any more. It's now too late for that.
It says a lot that everybody commenting is so hyperfocused on Gaza. This is exactly what the right wing wanted. And I blame voters for so readily - and greedily - walking into this "trap" (for lack of a better word, not my primary language).
The same bodily autonomy Democrats failed to enshrine in law at any point in the decades following the initial Roe v. Wade decision? Or the bodily autonomy that Harris and the dems wouldn't have had the votes to pass anyway even had they won? Or do you mean the bodily autonomy that Biden has done nothing meaningful with since he took office four years ago?
What specific policy platform did Harris put forward and advertise to the American people regarding gerrymandering? I don't recall anything specific beyond "we need to stop it." Ok, how? How do you plan to do that when, once again, you won't have majorities in both houses, and SCOTUS is corrupt and you/Biden refuse to do anything about that, either, like pack the court?
She reversed her policy on fracking a couple weeks into her campaign, might make voters think you can't trust her and her commitment to the climate crisis, which Biden has shown to also not be doing great on.
I'm assuming this is related to housing? Yeah, Harris said she wanted to build 3 million new homes and offer first time homebuyers down payment assistance. This doesn't address all of the corporate consolidation of housing, and it doesn't prevent these corporate entities from gobbling up huge amounts of these new homes.
What has Biden done in regards to this? Have the tax breaks put in place by Trump been reversed? No? Because they have to be undone by Congress? Cool, so what's Harris's plan if she doesn't control both houses of Congress, send me 8 emails a day for the next 4 years begging me for money while not raising the minimum wage in any meaningful way?
I voted Harris, to be clear, but her policies were centrist at best, and that's why she lost. Regardless of what the stats and polls show, Americans don't feel better off than four years ago. Americans want change, and if it's not going to be progress, then I guess it'll be regress. And the Dems have no one to blame but themselves.
It's cute you think the dems give a shit about any of those issues
"feels driven point" as if I don't have coworkers and friends in Gaza who are living through the hell that Israel, and by extension the US put them through. That's why "she's not Trump" isn't a good strategy. Fuck "other stances" - I care about them right now. Saying I should stop and "deal with it" is like walking up to a grieving family and telling them they should "deal with it" that their child is dead. You call it "a trap" you call it "stupid" when in reality it is an important issue to some people, just not you. So keep going on about how people are idiots, when it is 100% on the candidate to say "we need to stop what's happening there". And when the polls came back and it turns out "oh hey that gets us votes, lemme say that!" she immediately flipped 180, two days before the election.
People like you like to quote the "First they came..." poem like the first line isn't "First they came for the Palestinians".
No, I just feel it's ridiculous to try make an issue out of Gaza while you're actively electing a fascist at home.
You know, if my neighbor is gasping for air, I sure would like to help them. Turns out, there's a good reason they tell you on planes to first put your own air mask on, because otherwise you're unconscious and can't help anyways.
Which is what'll happen now. Because apparently in a choice between 1-worse-99-better and 100-worse-0-better, the latter felt more natural to the majority.
Again, the reason I blame voters is because they let themselves get controlled into caring about such a singular issue, to the point where they have now fucked themselves over because they forgot to look at their own country even for just a second. Which is even more annoying because unlike last time, they had a lot of preparatory time in which to see just how exactly electing Trump will fuck them all up.
That's he's also going to make Gaza worse is a given, he has explictly said so. But that's not what I blame the voters for. I blame them for putting him in power by letting themselves get controlled to only see a single issue.
There is no "control", there is important things to people. Hell, some things are more important than others. And genocide of your friends is one of those things.
Explain to me - why didn't they stop the genocide (or at least the arms shipments) to Israel when they are in charge for the last four years. If you are able to do that and not sound like an absolute cynical monster, then we can talk about politics. But you can't.
Again, you wouldn't walk up to a gay person and try to convince them to vote for Trump because the border wall was "a good idea" (as Harris put it). They'd call you insane. They'd tell you fuck Trump because he is anti LGBT. That would still be "a single issue" for them. So why are you trying to come in here and be holier than thou, to a different group of people who have a similar dealbreaker about Harris?
Well you better hug those coworkers in preparation for what’s coming under Trump.
You are saying that as if I didn't have to sit in stunned silence for an entire day already, when one of them lost an entire extended family (uncles and their family) who literally lived nextdoor to them. The bombing took out the wall in their bedroom and hurt their 3 months old child.
If you ever think "I'm an empathetic person", think about this post, how you used tribal politics to basically say "that thing that happened earlier to them already? It will happen to them again, and it would still happen if 'my candidate' won the election".
Okay... And what did you do here to move the needle on the Gaza issue? Holding your breath and turning blue feels like a moral high ground sure. But what did you actually do?
Wow you're a straight up asshole. Im sorry but there it is. Not a 'how can I help' but a fuck you. Gloriously on full display. And you wanted this person's support for harris? Bless your heart. Jesus i need a drink.
@Maalus@lemmy.world heres a hug for you and the shit you and your circle have been going through this last year. I'm really sorry for everything that has happened.
Appreciate it. My coworkers are incredible people, you could write a movie about the shit they've done. I know that in their place, I most likely wouldn't be able to give as much as they have to the people around them. They inspire me every day to continue doing what I'm doing, even when it's hard and often thankless.
I work with people in need and I send humanitarian aid. I'm doing what I am able to do, exhausting my savings and putting my future on the line for them. What did you actually do?
And that's great on a personal level, but what did it do in terms of this choice where Gaza was not featured but the possibility of a second genocide on your doorstep or the death of the democratic process that protects your right to protest and send that aid at all was being happily speculated on?
It didn't give a vote to a candidate that supports a genocide.
Uh huh. I hope that continues to feel worth it.