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New bill would allow Rubio to strip US citizens’ passports over political speech
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Their ideas aren't popular, Trump won because the economy sucks the Democratic party sucks and the media sucks. Fix any of those three problems up a bit and they lose.
All easier said than done, but let's define the problem properly. It isn't that people on average are bad and can't handle democracy, it's that our systems are bad and manipulating people into supporting bad things.
He also rigged the election
Xenophobia seems pretty popular.
Eh. Trump was able to make a very specific and tangible case to his voters for how he was going to directly improve their lives. Kamala was completely unwilling to do that. That's why she lost.
Trump's plan was evil, but it was clear and direct. His message was "I will deport a bunch of immigrants and slap up tariffs. This will make it easier for you to get a job and buy a home." It's a cynical, evil, and short-sighted plan, but it was actually a plan to directly improve the living standards of working class Americans.
What was Kamala's equivalent? Nothing. She had some vague language about a tax credit that would just inflate the housing bubble higher, and she took the usual idiot liberal approach of attaching dozens of strings that made it so only select marginalized people would qualify for it. Kamala offered nothing. People were hurting, and she offered them nothing. She didn't lose because of Gaza, no matter what Republican trolls on Lemmy like to say. She lost because she was unable to make a clear and specific case about how she was going to help the people that voted for her. Her only real core message was the defense of democracy, but it turns out that people see little reason to support a democracy that will do nothing to actually advance their interests.
Kamala failed in every way, imo, except wooing the farther-right. DNC sued to keep Claudia off the ballot in swing states --they knew they weren't going to win against her! And now they're suing to keep a Green mayoral candidate off the ballot. Lemmy libs act like South Carolina libs, which is pretty left except they "wisely" want conservative Dems on the ballot to win, and that hasn't worked since Clinton. The only reason Biden won't was because he wasn't the other guy, and failed the lower middle and underclass so badly, "not the other guy" will never win again, for less conservative libs of either party.
Hate to break it to you, but the green candidate is never winning within the 2-party fptp system. The last chance was Bernie 2020.
Certainly not with the DNC spending to keep her off the ballot.
And why is xenophobia popular? Seems like a problem with the systems still.
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