Summary

Kamala Harris’s political skills have transformed a potentially disastrous 2024 presidential election into a competitive race.

Despite initial skepticism and a challenging campaign, Harris has improved her public image and closed the gap with Trump on key issues. Since Biden stepped aside in July and endorsed her, she has shifted from an unpopular vice president to a viable candidate, even matching Trump in polls on economic issues.

Her leadership has given Democrats a chance to prevent a Trump landslide and halt the rise of American authoritarianism.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    The fact that the election is a toss up shows to me just how dumb America is.

    The choice is an average politician or an orange wannabe fascist … and a good percentage of the country can’t decide? Or they choose the fascist?

    The fact that it is even a close race just displays in big giant signs just generally how stupid the country has become.

    I normally don’t like being that blunt or unkind but these people are literally holding the future of the world in their hands and they have no freaking clue what they are doing.

    I’m not American and it is completely frustrating to sit outside as we watch a bunch of idiots being indecisive about either choosing normalcy or insanity. It’s such a hard question for America that they need to have a never ending debate about it.

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      Being susceptible to fascism isn’t exactly an American invention. It’s a failure of liberalism that leads to this, as democracy is eroded by capitalists.

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      The problem is those of us who want a better life for all. For people to be able to live and not just exist, who strive for kindness. Our problem is always that we are too willing to turn our collective cheek. We are too willing to be kind for too long, be too tolerant, too understanding. Meanwhile, the angry and intolerable, and the malicious and evil, stand high atop shaky foundations yelling loudly serious threats.

      This election cycle is a representation of where our own anger has gone. I just fear it has come too late.

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      It’s sad how uninformed people have become. They get their news from Facebook or TV. Literally zero research done so everything they base their vote on is anecdotal or just assumptions based on their own life experiences.

      We need to do better about getting information to the people. The government shouldn’t have to jumó through hoops to educate the public on basic shit

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      Dude the right is full on talking about anyone they disagree with being a demon. Literally a thing that’s never existed, and they at on top. If you’re not in a state that’s entirely unwilling to put you in a concentration camp, you might consider moving.

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      I mean if she really wanted to guarantee victory all she had to do was to stop sending weapons to Israel. Great job by her to keep the genocide and her chances of election going.

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        Guarantee a Trump victory, that is.

        I agree it’s horrible that Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians for every person killed in the Hamas attack, and Harris needs to find a way to rein in Netanyahu if she becomes President. And that may be by withholding all weapons. But if and when Trump takes power, he’s going to help his buddy Bibi nuke Gaza into a wasteland as a Final Solution to the Palestinian problem. Harris needs every last vote, even from those who support Zionism, but have other reasons for voting against Trump.

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        You’re very uninformed if you think that Harris coming out against Israel (which is how EVERY news network would spin it) would lead to anything but a Trump victory.

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      need to have a never ending debate about it.

      It’s not a debate at this point. The Trump supporters stopped living in reality a long time ago. I’m still friends with a couple on FB, and the shit they post is complete lunacy. They won’t look at anything that comes from NBC, ABC, or even CBS. Fox is hit and miss…if it’s remotely critical of anything conservative it’s an MSM conspiracy.

      The Russian / Chinese social ops did their job to perfection. These people only watch X, Newsmax, Britbart, and OANN these days.

      They’re regular people outside of the internet, but they’ve walled themselves off from anything that might put a dent in their world view.

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      how dumb America is.

      Not to mention how dumb the UK, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic are…

      By the way, what country do you live in?

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      Imagine how bad it feels to have those idiots as neighbors. I moved to this neighborhood around two years ago and I was really happy that there were no visible trump flags/signs around. It’s nice that everyone can keep their politics to themselves. In the last year, somehow that changed and there were a few signs put up here and there, but in the last month, they’ve multiplied and now they’re on multiple houses on every block. I don’t understand how anyone can see what’s going on and still feel compelled to go get a sign and put it up…unless they’re just trying to put up the scariest Halloween decorations. Now the nice neighborhood I moved to two years ago looks like election headquarters for someone who tried to overthrow the government four years ago.