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I would be curious to see the numbers but I don't think the pro Palestine protest voters cost the Democrats the election. It definitely didn't help, but the Dems shat the bed in way more ways than just the Palestine situation.
Pro-Palestine protest votes didn't cost the Dems the election, but that a single group was not the deciding factor in a contest does not absolve them of responsibility. IE single-issue pro-Israel voters probably were not the reason for Trump's victory, but they still deserve a portion of the blame in voting for Trump.
And many of these selfsame pro-Palestine protest vote types are continuing their dumbass games even as Trump greenlights fascism both at home and abroad - like everyone fucking told them he would.
Because the effect is the same. Sorry, again, you might finally experience what others have been.
Well said. I really wish people understood that blame can be shared because they really don't seem to understand that and haven't since November.
And many of these selfsame pro-Palestine protest vote types are continuing their dumbass games even as Trump greenlights fascism both at home and abroad - like everyone fucking told them he would.
The dimbass games are posts like this instead of arguing for civil disruption and actions beyond elections. The protesters entire point was the election won't stop the genocide either way and further action is needed. Trying to bait them into an argument about an election that's already fucking over serves nothing. Unless you don't care about the issue in the first place and just want to be divisive about it.
Pretty much. They didn't offer anything their constituents wanted except for escape from DJT.
Unfortunately "We aren't Donald Trump" wasn't a winning strategy two of the three times they tried it.
I wonder what two terrible choices we are gonna have in 2028. Watch it be like fuckin Nancy Pelosi with an exoskeleton holding her up vs Dan Crenshaw who will have replaced his eye patch with a gun by then.
I question even that: Did they really? Where did the party articulate a cohesive plan (or hell, even just an enthusiastic promise) to counter the rise of oligarchy?
They promised an escape from him stylistically, but the majority of citizens who aren't political junkies weren't sick of it, because they weren't exposed to it, because they don't pay much attention to political news. What did they promise that the non-informed voter would notice in they're day-to-day life?
You'd think that would've been enough....
It wouldn't have been a landslide, but it certainly assured the worst case scenario, MAGA sweeping all 3.
Who knows how it would have gone down otherwise, maybe the Democrats regained the house, maybe held onto the Senate. Maybe Trump would have lost, but Republicunts held onto Congress.
Who knows, but any of those would have been 10000x better than letting Drump get a hold of all 3.
Now everyone is screwed in some way.
What do you mean don't blame the brown people for White America's problems/identity crisis?
Id say anyone with half a brain, paid attention and was an informed voter knew exactly this is what we were in for - but it's clear most Americans are not informed because of the huge number of people who didn't participate (for whatever reasons)
Highly engaged voters voted overwhelmingly for Kamala. Not because they liked her, but because they knew the alternative was dog shit. This is not an ideal situation.
Bullshit. I voted against my conscience because I knew orange would harm people I love. It wasn’t enough.
Dems didn’t offer anything compelling because they are a failed party that can only drive votes with threats of even worse. It’s pretty easy to not fund a genocide and lie and say it isn’t happening when it clearly is. Dems can blame only themselves for poor turnout.
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What the fuck are you saying?
both sides are the same
That I didn't vote because I knew trump was worse? I voted.
the threats didn’t come from the dems. they came from the magats.
"We're fighting fascism," or whatever they were saying. They didn't convince enough people to vote for them.
you make it sound easy but agreements between nations are anything but that. last time I checked both the dems and repubs were running the government…how convenient of you to forget that.
Regan called the head (premiere, president, I don't know) of Israel to tell them to calm down and the did. I'm not forgetting things. You don't know history.
Again:
agreements between nations are anything but that
Wait did I forget how he took us out of the Iran deal to limit their nuclear program?
Grow up.
There were no "threats," just pointing out real shit...
I voted against my conscience because I knew orange would harm people I love. It wasn’t enough.
So what? You still did the right/smart thing.
Dems didn’t offer anything compelling because they are a failed party
A failed party with a history of voting in favor of the middle/lower classes, who have provided affordable healthcare, strengthened worker rights/unions, lowered prescription drug costs, banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports, invested in clean energy, placed regulations on companies harming our environment, etc etc etc?
When are you going to stop blaming Dems and start accepting that an amoral party was able to convince a terrifying number of stupid Americans to vote against their own interests utilizing propaganda? It's not like it's the first time in history that's happened.
When are you going to stop blaming Dems and start accepting that an amoral party was able to convince a terrifying number of stupid Americans to vote against their own interests utilizing propaganda? It’s not like it’s the first time in history that’s happened.
Both are true at the same time. She failed to condemn a genocide. Are you telling me that you think all those students protesting didn't matter?
Coworker: "I hate trump, he should never be president!" Me: "So you're voting Harris?" Coworker: "I don't know if we're ready for a WoMaN president"
Asking for a friend, where is the nearest cliff? He would like to go jump off of it.
Maybe the political party should have conformed to the pressure of the people who vote in its party. Just saying.
Dems would rather lose than appeal to what americans actually want.
Also funny to imagine protest voters being powerful enough to sway the election but not powerful enough for Dems to listen to
Dems would rather lose than appeal to what americans actually want.
Lol. If we changed our foreign policies to win elections every 4 years we'd have exactly ZERO allies.
Israel is America's most important ally in the middle east. We ain't giving that up for a single election.
Edit: Ruffled some stupid feathers. Proud of your protest vote?
Who? People go on about how if we just told Israel to drop dead, voters would turn out in the millions, but what actual numbers are there to back it up? The majority of people willing to left the world burn as protest are young and statistically, they don't vote, the issues be damned.
The simple reality is that this "Silent majority" of far leftists Internet pundits want the Democratic Party to appeal to does not exist. Biden didn't try to appeal to these people, because they were never really going to turn out.
These numbers
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling
By a more than three-to-one margin, Biden 2020 voters who did not vote for Harris say they would have been more likely to have voted for Harris if she “pledged to break from President Biden's policy toward Gaza by promising to withhold additional weapons to Israel” rather than less likely.
There is no reality in which America jeopardizes its relationship with its most important ally in the middle east.
Simply not an option.
So now we get to watch Dipshit Donny give Netanyahu free reign to turn Palestine to dust.
But if you're implying that Dems should have lied like Republicans lie and told their constituents that they'd stop supporting Israel in order to get re-elected, then yeah, they absolutely should have done that to prevent what we're about to experience.
Israel is not an ally to the US.
Allies don't need to spend millions in donations to Congress and presidental candidate.
Allies don't launch and support campaign to attack (anti-apartheid) protesters and candidates.
Allies, don't attack US military and blame it on Arab.
Allies don't protect pedophile and refuse to sign a extradition agreement.
Trump claiming credit for ceasefire and then destroying the region was always Bibi's plan. The propalestine protestors were against the administration for refusing to acknowledge that the israeli's were not negotiating in good faith. Had they played hard ball things might have been different.
Good thing they got rid of Genocide Joe to pave the way Death dealing Donny
In general, let’s gently redirect anger away from protest voters.
First, I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the volume of protest votes would have impacted the Electoral College. Harris would have likely won Michigan, but that seems to be the extent of what would have happened if all protest votes had flipped to blue. (Please feel free to correct me with evidence if this is inaccurate.)
Second, you’re directing your frustration at the wrong group. The Democratic Party ran a campaign that was basically center right and fostered mass apathy at the polls. That’s the real issue. You can continue to direct anger at non-voters, but all this infighting does little to hold the Democratic Party accountable for running a campaign that encouraged people to literally stay home.
Nah, they get lumped right in with the people that stayed home. They knew they were throwing their vote away because they knew there was zero chance of their party winning the election.
The real issue is that all the protest voters and protest non voters enabled this guy, on purpose, and they know it:
Kilmeade then asked Trump: “Are you on-board with the way the [Israel Defense Force] is taking the fight to Gaza?”
“You’ve got to finish the problem,” he said.
It's the fault of these idiots. Not the Democratic party.
fault doesn’t matter. what matters is influence. the democratic party has SO MUCH MONEY to use for influence, and they used all that influence to basically make the perfect case to voters to conclude that they might as well stay home.
their conclusion was wrong of course, but to the working class american, that’s the image that was successfully projected into their minds.
Can vouch for Michigan, writing was on the wall as far back as 2023 when the Gaza thing started.
Although I think it still would have been close, Detroit auto was not happy with Biden handing out free money for layoffs.
First, I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the volume of protest votes would have impacted the Electoral College.
Doesn't matter. They voted not knowing if they were going to be the deciding factor or not.
all this infighting does little to hold the Democratic Party accountable for running a campaign that encouraged people to literally stay home.
They ran a cleaner, less hateful campaign which focused way more on policy than the Republican's campaign.
It's not the campaign that's the issue. It's stupid Americans voting against their own best interests because they fell for propaganda and because they always hold the Democratic party to a higher standard. The brunt of the blame lies squarely on the American electorate. Our government is a reflection of our ignorant electorate.
Hey Kamala, just say Genocide bad ... just once, you don't even need to action it, we all know politicians lie as easily as breath. Just once and you make history.
The walking special K ad throwing salutes is the result of protest votes not the continuing genocide. Palestine would burn under either administration.
Netanyahu wanted Trump to win, that should tell you ALL you needed to know
Exactly what freaked me out in the later months of 2023. He wanted to tank Biden, the guy sending billions, because the next guy would be worse.
Maybe, maybe not, but either way now we have a situation where anyone who's not a white+male+cis+het+christian just got a big target painted on them in no small part due to those protest votes and the push to have democrats stay home.
Yes, keep blaming the voters and not the democratic party and candidate who repeatedly refused to give them a reason to vote for them. Blaming the voters will definitely win us the next election.
refused to give them a reason to vote for them
If stopping fascism isn't enough of a reason for you to vote Dems, that's a you problem and not a them problem.
definitely win us the next election.
How quaint, you think there's going to be a next free and fair election at this point.
What do you mean "next"?
America has never had free and fair elections.
As evidenced by the cases of Bush v. Gore, Wilding et. al. v. DNC Services d/b/a DNC and Deborah “Debbie” Wasserman Schultz, and the lack of a viable anti-genocide candidate during last year's election.
By not voting for genocide, they cost us the election! /s
If only they'd put this much effort into getting one person to change her mind on the issue, instead of trying to get 10 million people to change their morals.
It appears especially ghoulish now after it came out that even her campaign's polling showed that it was a losing position.
Morals are morals, but they shouldn't be completely uncompromising
In this case we had the status quo on one side and on the other, someone who was itching to throw the dial to 11 across the board.
At this point, any blood spilled as on their hands just as much as the DNC.
They ignore it because they never cared,
A friend of mine died in Lebannon.
Dem cheerleaders are blue maga.
Nah.
Personally, I'm someone who accepts that for the foreseeable future only two parties matter and has been paying attention for multiple decades and actually bothered to look up both party's voting history and know, as a fact, that Dems frequently vote in favor of the middle/lower classes, that our economy is always healthier under them, and that our rights are more secure.
So when it comes down to voting I always champion them because the only other viable option is fucking awful in comparison and I'm not stupid enough to waste my vote on a fantasy scenario that simply won't happen.
The Protest Vote Paradox™
As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:
“We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”
-Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:
Wether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
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• Obnoxiously tell everyone “We told you all what would happen!”
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• Claim there is “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”
As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:
Something, something, something Ted Talk.
You forgot that they will also claim that it is the fault of the opposition to fascism party that they didn't "convince them to vote for them" even though they had already made up their mind ages before the election even started that they would never vote for the opposition to fascism party because they don't actually care about [popular single issue] or stopping fascists. They just want to feel like special little snowflakes who are part of the "revolution" and want to see the whole system destroyed and the violence that goes along with it because they're simply bored.
See the other reply for a perfect example.
What opposition? The Democrats helped pass the Laken Riley Act. Schumer is calling for bipartisanship. Biden told Trump, "Welcome Home." The only people who didn't go to the inauguration and clap like seals are AOC and Bernie Sanders, and one of them isn't even a Democrat. They're not opposition. They're collaboration.
Wow if only there were something the candidate could have done to attract those voters. Guess we'll never know.
Why are you so concerned with "protest voters"? If every third party vote went to Democrats, Harris still would have lost.
It's way easier to blame a small amorphous group of people, but why don't you focus on winning? Harris got 6 million fewer votes than Biden. Do you think all those people stayed home because of Palestine?
Take this energy and put it towards something useful. Ignoring all the facts so you can punch left is pathetic.
It's more about the people who didn't vote at all.
Those aren't "protest voters", are they?
Again, Harris got 6 *million" fewer votes than Biden and lost by 2 million votes. If you really believe that's because of Palestine, then you should be asking Harris why she didn't support Palestine.
But no reasonable person could think that Harris lost because of Palestine. So why is this such a big focus for liberals, instead of something that matters?
If winning in 2026 and 2028 doesn't involve punching left, are you even interested?
Isn't that just non-voters? Not voting is viewed by literally everyone as "don't care", not a protest.
It's more about a trash system with trash candidates where most people's votes don't matter at all.
If every third party vote went to Democrats, Harris still would have lost.
Lol. This argument is so stupid.
Those fools voted not knowing if they would make the difference or not. And in other elections, it has.
They don't get a pass because their idiocy ended up not being the deciding factor.
Yeah. You're right honestly, it was too much to ask the Democrats to stop funding and arming a genocide. It's not their fault at all, no sir no way. It's the fault of the Palestinian Americans who refused to vote for people committing genocide against their communities.
Youre so smart. So principled. You know exactly who's fault this situation is. It's those damn Palestinians not wanting to vote for people arming genocide against them. How dare they.
The democrats had no choice. They HAD to keep committing genocide against Palestine. Poor Joe, he felt so bad for the Palestinians whenever he signed off on the next missile shipment to Israel. :( He even shed a little tear each time. The poor boy he just had no choice he had to keep arming genocide. He really felt so awful about it the whole time 😔 he'd sometimes even forget that it was happening at all and then remember and feel bad all over again.
It's so normal that you blame the Palestinian Americans who wouldn't vote for people arming the genocide of their people. Yup. There's NOTHING the Democrats could've done differently. You should just keep on defending them forever. You know what, you should do one even better and support them as they continue to slide to the right. Instead of fighting for the party to change, you should continue to blindly support them even as they support the indiscriminate slaughter of starving Gazan children.
I should hope the /s isn't needed here. I'm so fucking tired.
It’s the fault of the plaestinian Americans who refused to vote for people committing genocide against their communities.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that by doing so they made the situation WAY worse. Like a kid that gets mad and just ends up making things worse for themselves.
There is no reality in which the U.S. gives up Israel as its most important ally in the Middle East.
So the options were to minimize the damage, or go wholesale on letting it get worse. They chose the latter. Not very smart.
But hey, at least they can feel vindicated in their heart of hearts as they watch Palestine reduced to ash from the comfort of their homes in America.
Yeah mhm you're so right. Demanding that the party that's supposed to be progressive stops committing acts of genocide against their people was so childish of them. How dare they. Yup. It's totally not the fault of the democratic party for continuing to commit genocidal acts, nope no not at all never they're always in the right, actually. We really need to defend the poor leaders of the democratic establishment 😔 they only had a whole 13 months to stop committing acts of genocide by arming and funding genociders. Those damn Palestinians, it's their fault that the democratic party had to keep committing genocide against them. If only they hadn't complained so much about being genocided. 😡
/s though again I should hope it isn't necessary
Yeah. I don't think the democratic party would have stopped arming the Israeli military if they had won the election. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. Gaza is so utterly destroyed it is hard to comprehend.
It is extremely gross of you to blame the outcome of the election on a minority of a minority ethnic group who refused to vote for people who were actively involved in committing genocide against their community. That's just the most wildly inhumane response to this situation possible. Nah, it was and continues to be the fault of the democratic leadership who committed themselves both to genocide and to a move to the right. You might as well become a Trump supporter if you want to blame minorities for everything. They hate Palestinians, too. You'd be right at home.
Democrats are mentally incapable of even considering the possibility that their losing to Trump two out of the three times they've ran the exact same campaign and candidate is their own responsibility. No, it must be the checks notes people who wanted them to be a little more critical of killing Arabs who are responsible. Wonder who you'll blame when Trump inevitably runs for a third term and you decide to copy/paste your campaign strategy and candidate because you've learned abso-fucking-lutely nothing. I'm betting "people who don't worship trillionaires enough", because we'll have some by then.
We told them so.
^ The entirety of the DNC's losing platform.
Yeah, but, we literally told them so.
Blame the DNC if you want if it makes you feel better.
We told them so and they still made a stupid decision. That makes them dumber than the DNC.
See this doesn't really work when they are the one's that lost...
You know, I’ve seen FAR more leftists and third party vote wasters saying this than I ever see democrats saying it.
FAFO! Big time. Bunch of idiots. They do not understand that Israel has the USA by the balls and this has been going on since the USS Liberty.
You think they actually gave a shit.
Palestine was just the latest version of "The Issue"
Someone they can make their entire personality to make themselves look good.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
Reminder that the West Bank is the one that's not even ruled by Hamas and hasn't attacked Israel. If Israel tried to do this under Harris, no doubt weapons would've been cut off and the US might have even favored sanctions.
Ah yeah she draw the line at killing the wrong kind of arabs /s so brave
You liberals through your arab people under the bus to save yourselves. You had the power to demand a better candidate and help others, but instead you put your own privileges and rights over that of the arab people. Those of us who protest voted did so while standing in solidarity with Palestine. Those of you who voted for Kamala, and are now blaming protest voters, effectively spit in the face of arabs to protect yourself. You told them that your life is worth more than theirs and you are now blaming them for the consequences you brought on yourself. You vote for the Democrats time and time again despite them moving more and more right and you expect change. Voting for the lesser evil just makes the lesser evil more evil. You reached the end where now people aren't even okay with voting for the lesser evil. You didn't push for real change and are now blaming minorities and the people who stand by them for not wanting to play your game anymore.
I do not care if you voted for Kamala. I don't think the people who voted for Kamala are bad people. I understand why you would vote for Kamala. I think you are a bad person if you voted for Kamala and are now trying to blame and shame minorities and the people who stood with them in solidarity for why Trump got elected.
Ah yes, the good old "If Israel is going to genocide Palestinians, it's only fair that America genocides ethnic and gender minorities"
Give yourself a round of applause for being a fascist supporter.
You're the kind of person that would sell out your jewish neighbors during the holocaust to save your own skin.
Why are you more angry at 1 person voting their conscious than you are at party leadership that had polling showing trump would win in August, yet still did nothing to turn approval around?
A lot of words for not having a valid point. If you didn't vote blue, you voted for trump.
Are y'all still fucking crying about a demographic that was too small to change the result?
Since y'all failed on your own and will probably continue to do so maybe try joining us next time! Our moment offers real change, honestly I think you'll like it far better.
You fucked up this bad and want us to join?
No.
They're so eager to have us join their cause, yet when we asked them to take a single day out of their lives to defend the basic human rights of minorities in the US, they said "Too much trouble."
I have no idea what this is about because it's not in a thread. Perhaps I missed how to link context.
If you mean joining .world, no. I don't want that.
What change are you offering? Real question. Because I don't see Dems lifting people up. Maybe a college loan gift, if you're lucky. Nothing else in the real world.
So you’re saying that protests votes don’t work?
Ok so attacking the people who are on your side does what exactly?
Ok so attacking the people who are on your side
Are they?
Man I wish I was less literate so this would make more sense.
You're cishet and white, aren't you?
The fact the other side is even worst doesn't make your side less bad...
Not standing up to worse makes it more difficult to move away from less bad because now you have to deal with worse before to can get back to dealing with less bad.
Except for all the fascism, you know?
Actually it does, if one is objectively worse, then the other has to be at least the smallest percent better, that's just simple word comprehension.
It's less bad than the other side. You do see how that works right?
And if the system makes it certain only one of those two options will win, the less bad is better, right?
And if it's better that it wins, you should vote for it, right?
Tell me where I lost you
Compared to what?
A democratic country.
So Israel is continuing what they are already started under Biden just as unopposed as under Biden? The length these types of bitter democrats will go to do their genocide apologetiks is amazing.
That is literally what people tried to tell you and others before election day. Israel would be supported no matter who was in power so don't base your vote on that.
Are you even a little upset about everything else Trump is doing right now? Like finding every way he can to oppress queer people with executive orders in less than a week? When they start getting loaded into boxcars, will you just stand there and say you told them to vote third party and this is what Harris would have done to them as well?
No, you told us it would be worse, but so far it's obviously not in Gaza. Would it be nice if Biden put his foot down in May?
They came for the Palestinians... Politicians in democracies responds to the demands of there constituency and you said that you did not care.
At the end of the day, the point is mute anyways. Gaza did't swing the vote. The loss of the democratic was so complete and multifaceted that this sort of post is just mindless scapegoating with little attachment in reality.
I would have liked Biden to have vetoed less UN resolutions. We could have simply got out of the way and let the rest of the worlds diplomatic community push for progress.
As much as the president of the United States? Way to out your self.
Good to see in memes that the devide an conquer stategy works even after the election. /s
We are divided. We should stop being divided and vote for someone who advances working class representation.
You act like this wasn't a sure thing either way but I get it blaming voters is easy.
And we can all for a second remember the fact Trump basically said they meddled in Pennsylvania, what's the chance the richest people in America if not the world could afford to steal an election.
Imagine believing, after more than a year of unfettered genocide, that the other huge zionist was any better.
Libs are really losing it, Hiding out in these wacky meme bubbles.
It's almost like the Israel/Palestine issue was completely irrelevant to the election since there were only two choices and both treated it the same. Yet only the Democrat candidate lost votes over it. Funny how they worked. It's almost like someone engineered it
Libs are really losing it
It's hard not to when you live in a society stupid enough to put an anti-democratic felon rapist insurrectionist in the Oval Office....twice.
happy Stein cicada noises
I’m surprised we haven’t sortied any B-52s to carpet bomb Palestinians yet tbh
BlueMaga is a psyop and never existed.
If we don't give the nation of Israel full control of the region, then we can't fulfill the prophecy to bring end times!
It's nice of you to leal to Israel but that's not what I was referring to.
There's other policies that the Democrats could have absolutely pushed for. For instance reinstating the protection plans under the American relief plan that they allowed to expire in 2022. You know the thing they said massively reduce child poverty only for it to go immediately back up when those protections ended. I feel like that would have been a great place for the Dems to start. We're talking basic fucking things like a Band-Aid fix on Healthcare would be enough to mobilize the base but they're not even willing to do that. Kamalas pathetic approach to Home Care was to give first-time home buyers $12,000. This is stupid because nobody can afford a house or get the mortgage for the house because the banks aren't satisfied with their debt to income ratio. Nothing about dealing with rent nothing about promising that linacon would stay on. Nothing about dealing with that internet driven rent demand bullshit from that company called real price. These aren't leftist points either just broad liberal points.
Oh look at that, exactly what literally every sane person predicted would happen is happening.
Yep all those idiot protest voters getting exactly what trump said he would do.
I know neolibs like to blame everyone and everything but themselves but even if 100% of the protest voters voted for Harris, she still would have lost.
Yes after a year+ of genocide, it's continuing unabated. People would have to be ins4Ne to believe anything else was gonna happen.