Elijah Manley was still a teenager when his frustration with President Trump pushed him to get involved in politics. Today, he’s finally old enough to run for Congress. Upset with how his own Democratic Party is responding to Trump, he’s decided to do just that.
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Harris didn’t lose because she was a woman; she lost because she was a bad candidate. It’s that simple.
As a non American, I keep seeing this excuse and I’m always gobsmacked.
Bad candidate compared to… Trump?
You lot sure know how to pick them (or not, as it were).
“As a noN amEricAn” last year i had to sit with my wife as she called her windowed friend in Lebannon.
She was a fucking genocider and if you would have voted for her You’re a piece of shit
But America has been doing this, funding wars etc, for decades. Vietnam, Iraq, South Korea. Taliban, Saddam, Bin Laden. List goes on.
Is it because you’re personally affected now that your view has changed on the involvement of your country in another’s?
And had the way you voted, or lack thereof, made any difference to the situation? From what I can see, it’s made things so much worse, not only for you and your fellow citizens, but globally. Not only is the genocide continuing to be funded (now with fervour and the promise of developing the stolen land), American citizens and foreign travellers are being unlawfully detained.
I don’t know about you, but from the outside looking in, it was extremely obvious to me that KH was the better candidate because she could be reasoned with. Of course, you have many other better candidates but your system only allows you to choose from two.
Honestly, the American voting and political system sucks; I empathise with you there. If you’re going to be angry at something, be angry at that and force a change to get in a candidate that represents you and your values. You got great politicians like AOC and Bernie but with the current system, they’ll never be up for the top job.
As another non-American, comparing her to Trump is very reductive, because fundamentally she and Trump were trying to appeal to completely different sets of people. Yeah yeah lesser evil and all that, but that doesn’t work in the real world.
According to the data the women thing seems to be the major issue
whered you hear that? not trying to sound confrontational just wondering
It’s fine. I mean a lot of it is interpretation but if you look at the places where people came out to vote in drove compared to the last election it’s mostly states known for not being favorable to a black women being in power.
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The DNC sucks and all, but they aren’t a cult and don’t run people who lost again.
They do run people who lost the primary though
If they got picked as VP, true!
Except VP isn’t a position that is elected, so its pointless to pick them for president.
It is elected, but as a package deal. If they’re popular it’s not a bad idea to choose them as a nominee, but…yeah, Harris was not.
Its not elected, no one votes for VP. In the olden days, sure, but if the VP is elected than so is any family members of the president, making the trump kids political appointments the explicit will of the people, and no one wants that to be true.
The ballot has the President and Vice President on it. You do indeed vote for VP, but as I said, as a package deal. None of Trump’s kids were on the ballot.
This conversation hurts my head… Yes you vote for the vp (it’s on the damn ballot) but I’d wager most tie their vote to the actual president.
Not a troll, just a male chauvinist
Is no criticism of Democrats allowed without being called some form of bigot? I voted blue but I’m not going to pretend that the candidate I voted for represented basically any of my problems. I’m not in the group of people that her campaign claimed to serve.
You’re being called a chauvinist because of your statement that a woman can’t win.
It’s because you said something misogynistic/chauvinistic.
Criticism is allowed and welcomed.
What you did wasn’t that.
Hope this clears things up!
Excuse me ?
You seem like a sexist separate from your criticisms
When your base doesn’t care about anything but checking boxes, leadership does just that.