Harris's refusal to condemn Gaza genocide enraged young voters, who sat on their hands and cost her the election

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/opinion/democrats-israel-gaza-war.html

[u/Ok_Editor_710]

On top of not condemning the genocide, she doubled down on attacks Young voters, she and her party smeared them as "antisemitic". Cops were sent with blessing of Democrats to attack students protesting mass murder and ethnic cleansing. Students were expelled from Universities for having a conscience, others were prevented from matriculating on graduation day. Free Speech is under siege across American campsuses, lecturers who showed solidarity with students were suspended and fired with blessing of Democrats

In short, Democrats waged a war against one of their core constituency to defend a Fascist Apartheid Country.

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And let's not forget a few other salient points. Israel invaded Lebanon a month before the election (sorry, it "initiated cross-border infantry operations"... ugh), and nobody in the campaign said a word. There may not be a ton of Palestinians in Dearborn or Hamtramck, but there sure are a lot of Lebanese people. On top of that, the campaign actively promoted its endorsement by the Cheneys. A significant proportion of those cities in Michigan only live there because of what Cheney did. I genuinely believe that somebody in the campaign was trying to prove a point about how they could win without Michigan, because that is the only explanation for that boneheaded of a move.

And that's ignoring all of the other problems, like the Biden/Harris campaign basically arguing that they would be better at carrying out Trump's immigration policy, rather than rejecting the premise of a "Crisis at the Border."

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I can't argue with a single point you make, cause I agree with everyone of them wholeheartedly. It's as if Harris Campaign wanted to prove they can be more out of touch than the 2016 Clinton Campaign.

Everyone (I hope ) knows that Elections are a referendum on the Present. Yet like the Clinton 2016 Campaign Harris Campaign doubled down on the policies of an incumbent Democrat who has left their base dissatisfied. For Clinton it was the Bernie wing of the party. For Harris it is/was the Uncommitted/Gaza voters.Hilary ran as a continuation of Obama. Harris ran as a continuation of Biden. The two women Democrats have ran for president were hacks who couldn't chart their own course and had no core message of optimism for voters.

The embrace of the Cheneys is exactly what you think it is. Democrats thought that they could replace their 200K uncommitted muslim voters in Michigan with the 200K voters in Michigan who voted for Nikki Haley. Which begs the question: Why didn't they court Nikki Haley instead of the Cheneys?

Oops! Cause she was busy endorsing Trump!

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Disagree some on the Bernie folks thing.

Quote: "With over 74% of Sanders followers taking Bernie's lead to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, Sanders voters contributed mightily to Clinton’s popular vote win, as well as her prevailing in several swing states, that she would have otherwise lost, going down to a crushing defeat. Sanders voters were an indispensable contribution to her popular vote tallies."

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/23/end-blame-game-sanders-and-his-supporters-helped-hillary-win-popular-vote-2016?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook

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Did not realize that high number of Bernie voters voted for Hilary. I've been duped by the mainstream media in believing that Bernie voters cost her the election.

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I used to just do mainstream media. I made some progressive friends and they very gently opened my eyes.

Some of my favorites that I now frequent instead of corporate media are Secular Talk, The Humanist Report, The Rational National, Zeteo, Democracy Now.....