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DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In hindsight, I think the big issue with her campaign was simply how little time they had. We should have done an actual fucking primary, or Biden should have bowed out sooner, or at bare minimum she should have simply been as inescapably in the headlines as humanly possible because apparently there's a contingent of dense enough motherfuckers out there that people were searching who was running on election day.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno, I think it was mostly that they wanted joe to step down later on in order to justify not having a primary, and dispelling a populist candidate, like tim walz may have been, a populist candidate which goes against the interests of the donors, and could've still probably gone through with a ton of funding and a groundswell of support regardless (see: kamala getting 1 billion dollars), from the running. Then, they can run kamala by default, and it doesn't matter whether or not she really wins or loses, as she's still campaigning on basically the platform that the republicans of 2016 were running on. I dunno so much if the time was the problem, other countries have full elections in as much time, I think the real problem was the electoral calculus that runs everything the scenes, as it has always been, and I think a lot of people got their brain cooked by brat summer and coconut memes into believing this was somehow going to be any better than 2016.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Democrats deciding there is no point marketing themselves towards most of the country and only to specific counties in states they think they have done the math on for exactly the policies needed to get their votes is a strategy that needs to stop.

Thinking it's smart that they have "gamed" the election while still rolling in more donations than ever before is ridiculous.

Time is not the problem but message absolutely is.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

contingent of dense enough motherfuckers

I believe you could have shortened this to "America".