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ruthmarx 5 hours ago

> So that was there whole platform - “we aren’t Trump”?

No, but frankly if it was that should have been enough.

> Do you think the population got more ignorant in 4 years?

Yes, obviously. Or at least more ignorant people decided to vote this time.

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iugtmkbdfil834 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I long maintained that there should be a minimum level of 'something' required to vote. It used to be land, but anything that effectively makes one have a stake in the country would do. If possible, would you accept a restriction on the right to vote based on such a criterion?

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scarface_74 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And this is why Democrats lose. They are completely out of touch with what the mainstream wants.

Any other Democrat could have distanced themselves from Biden. But his own VP couldn’t.

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ruthmarx 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> And this is why Democrats lose.

Democrats lose due to significant ignorance in the population and successful propaganda by hostile entities. It's not an accident that the reddest states at the least educated and least literate. If you doubt that I'm happy to support the claim, but I think we both know it's true.

> They are completely out of touch with what the mainstream wants.

Democrats are the only party actually offering to give the majority what they want, but due to ignorance and propaganda the majority have become emotionally hostile to the means necessary to accomplish implementing what they want.

Despite Trump's promises that gullible desperate people fell for, his policies are likely to make things much harder for hid voters and not only not give them what they want, but give them what they explicitly don't want. Well, they'll still get bigoted policies, at least.

> Any other Democrat could have distanced themselves from Biden. But his own VP couldn’t.

There should have been no reason to. Trump is a rapist felon who literally advocated for injecting leach as a cure to a pandemic. That people voted for him at all shows just how bad things are.

Democracy can't function with such a gullible population. At the least I have a front row ticket to the fall of a modern empire though. That's something.

	▲	iugtmkbdfil834 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		<< Democrats are the only party actually offering to give the majority what they want << Democracy can't function with such a gullible population. I am trying to be charitable in my interpretation, but you are not making it easy. One could easily argue that given that Trump won, majority got what they want already. Please tell me that you understand what I am telling you now. I did manage to hear some people drawing appropriate conclusions from this cycle, but I am not certain you did. << Trump is a rapist felon who literally advocated for injecting leach as a cure to a pandemic. Yeah.. a felony in this case being the equivalent of a parking ticket in business; not to mention national level politics. It is hard for me understand why people have a hard time grasping that and/or why this was not a useful label for this election cycle. Hell, the moves taken ( including mug shot ) did the exact opposite of the desired effect. << At the least I have a front row ticket to the fall of a modern empire though. That's something. Enjoy the ride man. It is gonna get wild.