• @UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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    106 hours ago

    There was an election between an independent union leader and a career politician in Nebraska and the career politician won by a landslide. How do you explain that?

    • @dontgooglefinderscult
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      65 hours ago

      The career politician ran a better campaign and lied more believably.

      Also not all union leaders are left wing, paradoxically. There are legitimate reasons that Americans distrust unions.

    • @niucllos@lemm.ee
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      25 hours ago

      One example does not a rule make, and in the US electoral system money (and the party affiliations that bring it) speaks loudest of all. Maybe going further left wouldn’t work, but going further right certainly hasn’t. When Harris first emerged as the candidate she had such a swell of support, as she moved further right she lost it.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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        32 hours ago

        One example does not a rule make

        Missouri voted to overturn abortion ban and voted for republicans.

        Florida nearly voted for abortion ban and voted for republicans.

        Americans have shown they want change but they also don’t understand how that can be achieved.

        Apparently Biden/Harris chose not to push ‘make things better’ magical button in the Oval Office so they’re getting the boot and the guy who shat the bed earlier is now getting the opportunity to burn the house down.

        • @niucllos@lemm.ee
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          33 minutes ago

          Sure, but if she had spent her few months promising to tax the shit out of Elon Musk and other billionaires I bet people would have been more excited and actually showed up to vote than when she promised to keep the course and also appoint a Republican

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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          32 hours ago

          And non-voters didn’t get to have an opinion or seat at the adults table because they enabled fascism.