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This is what happens when the left doesn’t show up to vote because there aren’t any candidates far enough left in their opinion. The people that actually vote will be further right on the ideological spectrum and the right most candidate gets elected.
Fuck off with that. That's what happens when people in the centre sacrifice everything to keep the liberal agenda going, even if it means fascism is the next step.
Liberals always make compromises with their right, and never with their left. That is the problem. The left is warning of the problem for decades.
In a democracy it is the voters who decide. If leftists want to stay home because Kamala isn’t far enough left then we all get fascism.
As if the party and politiciens who scheme, organise and communicate had absolutely no responsibility whatsoever. This is a fraud: liberals are never going to admit their responsibility in the rise of fascism because their whole philosophy is about denying their responsibility in anything. Fuck that. Liberals had all powers for so long, and yet they still refuse to see their own responsibility and in the US are blaming the leftists for the Trump victory.
Maybe don't make all your strategy relying on leftists voting against fascism and sacrificing everything else next time.
It’s a politicians job to cater to the people who actually vote. Moderates vote so democrats cater to them.
Republicans took voters from democrats by running ads that blamed “radical leftists democrats and their progressive policies” for inflation and every other problem under the sun.
Along with the leftists that didn’t vote this was enough to give the win to facists.
This is how US politics ratchets to the right.
Because leftists don’t vote for politicians that must cater to more than just leftists to win.
Give me any reasonable source other than your ass that shows registered voters left of center stayed home instead of voting. I'd wager much more undecided centrists did, because they didn't care which of the two right wing parties won. It would be an asspull as well, but mine at least has some reason behind it, while yours just blames the left for being bad and stupid and stinky.
It is based of the posts and comments here on lemmy from leftists claiming Harris lost because ‘the DNC wasn’t left enough’. Also all the leftists here on lemme leading up to the elections claiming that both sides are the same and that we should vote 3rd party.
Most people said that Kamala went right due to her and Biden capitulation of the border topic, that she attempted to outflank the GOP from the right, which polls show was a losing strategy. This is very different from the accused left wing purity testing, which barely happend this election cycle, because most outspoken people on the left absolutely supported voting for Harris despite not agreeing with her. I don't know how tuned in you were on this side of the media landscape, but the messaging from the left was that Trump is hitlerian and will most likely want to imprison or kill people from the left, as all fascists in the past did once they took the power. The left in USA was never this alarmist and geared up to fight for their continued existence, so the idea that they instead stayed in homes as a show of protest is frankly unrealistic.
What I saw on lemmy past those few months was a shit ton of posts like this one - antagonizing the left and claiming that they won't vote because of the Gaza genocide. Also a lot of other kinds of voter shaming or blackmail. I don't know if it was maliciously botted or if DNC strategists actually thought it was a good idea - which I doubt - but continously mentioning the worst looking aspect of potential Harris presidency worked in Dems favour. And there, again, leftists argued that it was a losing strategy and that it will cost Harris voters more. They wanted some pressure to be put on Harris, so she would divert from this cataclysmic collision course. Barely anyone even spoke against voting for her at all. If your analysis of the sentiment in months leading to the elections pointed to that, you most likely had your head up your ass.
The left had everything to lose in those elections. They went and canvased for Harris despite not agreeing with her message. They tried to course correct the disastrous campaign she led, and often was met with unrelenting arrogance of the center claiming that nothing can or should be done with Dems messaging about Israel or the border. Topics of price gouging or feeding children, despite being popular with voters across the line were dropped almost immediately, and instead pro-corporate and business-as-usual messaging went out. The left repeatedly said that Dems would lose if they wont change, and now they did lose because they refused to do that.
I'm not even from the USA, so I wasn't that exposed to the mainstream USA media, but I know this anti-leftist propaganda was also constantly droned in TV. I know however how the internet side of left wing media looked like, and it was almost unanonymous that everyone needed to go vote for Harris or else the democracy will die. And that's why I'm fairly sure that your accusations of the left causing the Harris loss are bullshit - if anything, they were the people most concerned about it.
As for anyone actually calling to vote 3rd party, you surely do realise those were bots or paid shills, right? They never even went beyond in explaining the Jizz Stain policy the point of "unlike Harris she hates Jews", and overall their attempts to convice anyone were very uninspiring. She did get 0.4% iirc, so someone did fall for that, but come on, you know that's bullshit. The left absolutely did not support or endorse her.
The voices of "you should not vote for Harris" were very sparse, so you would be hard pressed to claim that they represented a significant portion of left wing users on lemmy. Those people complained instead about Harris fucking up, which she did, and now you're blaming her loss on the left based on those aformentioned sparse voices instead of learning from the criticism of the vast majority of the people from the left. What you're basicially claiming is that those 14% missing voters were result of leftist activism against Harris instead of the ineffective campaign, but I bet you also believe at the same time it would be dumb to listen to the left (that had apparently this much political power to sway so many voters) because listening to their advice at any point would weaken the DMC. So even if I was somehow wrong with my assesment of the internet left willingness to vote, your point that Dems lost because of the left would still be wrong, because if they could have possibly bridged the gap of 14%, then they absolutely should have been the target audience of the campaign, and Harris should have instead done everything the left asked of her instead of alienating them. I don't believe that was the case, as again, the left was very motivated to vote for Harris, but if it was, it would only show how bad the Dems campaign was.
My legs got numb and I'm long done pooping so cheers, sorry for the long comment, I need to eat more fiber.
So you’re basically telling me to not believe my own eyes and that the leftist spreading FUD about Biden/Kamala leading up to the election and afterwards don’t exists.
Don't mistake criticism for spreading fear, leftists did commonly and openly agree that Trump would be far worse. Dems had time to change their messaging in accordance with that critique and they didn't. Claiming that their campaign that leftists critiqued for being ineffective failed because leftists pleaded for Dems to change it is trying to have the cake and eat it. Again, if leftists proposing different campaign direction could possibly have enough political momentum to actually discourage 14% of voters from voting, then it would absolutely be a critical error from the Harris side not to listen to them. As "the left" isn't unified block that speaks in unified voice, while the DMC is, the fault in that case would lie on the Dems side. And again again, assuming that was the case would be very naive. The wide consensus on the left was that voting for Harris was absolutely the only option to stop fascism from taking hold. People who failed to show up were people that didn't care about politics enough and partialy believed Trump lies, or assumed "he wouldn't be so bad", or didn't care which of those 2 parties would win because they assumed nothing would have changed. Trump agenda is extremely conservative, and vast majority of people on the left recognised that as a threat. Claiming they didn't show up to vote despite all the clamour about Trump being Hitler from the left is a weak attempt at scapegoating them.
Don’t mistake FUD for criticism. The difference is timing.
Propaganda is at its peak right before an election. At that point in the election cycle it is too late to change most things. “Criticism” only serves to discourage people from voting in order to tip the scales.
No one is saying that the difference in voters in 2020 (largest turnout ever) and 2024 is entirely because of leftists.
I agree with this guy, except:
Also all the leftists here on lemme leading up to the elections claiming that both sides are the same and that we should vote 3rd party.
A lot of those were Russians, and it was effective. They spread the "don't vote Kamala" rhetoric, which didn't require rationalising anything for Trump, just dismissing Kamala as "not-left-enough" so she loses votes meaning Trump wins, and Trump is Putler's bumboy.
When Trump was first president, Putler contacts him and says "unless you give me everything I want we publish your piss videos", Trump gives info on US spies and they start dropping like flies.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-extracted-russia-spy-trump-classified-info-oval-office-2019-9
Trump is a traitorous cunt.
Ya, I believe that most of them are foreign bots. Others are just repeating their talking points. Some are more obvious. Others claim they were going to vote for Biden/Kamala while still spreading FUD.
Well this is posted on Lemmygrad.ml so..
What's it doing on Lemmy.world, I wonder?
It's funny because on the right you've got the incels who won't date a woman because she has a mole on her leg, but then on the left you've got people who won't vote for someone who meets 95% of their criteria.
What's that quote, don't let perfection stand in the way of progress or something
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough
Progressives fall apart, conservatives fall in line