It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • @BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    244 months ago

    Yeah I read about the 70 electors in swing states that are Trump loyalists and election deniers. How these people are even allowed to certify votes is beyond me.

    • Snot Flickerman
      link
      fedilink
      English
      394 months ago

      I mean, I’m still confused as to why a guy who caused an insurrection in the capital is even allowed to run for President.

      Our country is a weak fucking joke.

      • Don_Dickle
        link
        fedilink
        84 months ago

        And its sad because kids are growing up today and have a poor taste for the US. Which is sad in itself.

      • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        34 months ago

        Because it system if government was setup with certain assumptions of the time.

        Only rich landowning white men would be voting. Those men had the time to stay educated on world events because of either slaves or staff running their day to day business.

        Certain customs were socially enforced simply as a matter of course. Scandal often meant resignation or recusal, or you would be ostracized from society entirely. If no one would work with you, your business, and wealth would die.