“If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.”
"[…] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.
And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."
You are wrong, there’s a heavy center, i happen to be one and so I half of PA. Kamala was my choice but the dems made key mistakes by 1. Running a black woman - waaaaay too many middle of the line hicks can accept a white dude dem, but after Obama there’s a seriously sore spot for blacks and the push for equality. 2. Women as presidents - we have entire boomer sleepytime cities here like Johnstown that is all old people and they do not want a woman let alone a black woman as president. That was made very clear with the dem party and Hilary so running another woman against Trump was bound to fail. 3. Lgbtq+ and Trans - The amount of ads bombarding us with lgbtq+ shit, the news, the internet, turned off what used to be an extremely homophobic state. We are talking Pennsylvania being Salem for gays in the 90s. We have a ton of old country Slavic people and Italians here, they do NOT want to hear that shit.
There were other mistakes such as the last minute rope-a-dope and even people in the Dem party hating Schumer and Pelosi (guilty) the whole base needs a refresh. If they don’t make centrist changes and keep running on far left policies, we won’t have a chance in the future. I’m not saying, don’t fix infrastructure, but major handouts are going to hurt us in the long run. I’m not saying gays and Trans don’t deserve rights, everyone does, just shut the fuck about it, run on things that the people all have in common, not just a small sect that people don’t want shoved in their face.
If you are an atheist, it’s the same as having God shit shoved in your face. Do you, but shut the fuck up about it and move on like a normal person, don’t come knocking on my door and throwing you bible in my face. Keep shit respectable and people will respect you, but the whole last 8 years of “well if you don’t love gay and Trans people, you are homophobic/transphobic…” no I’m not, I just don’t want to hear about it every day, I’m not out here promoting pussy and how great it is and if you don’t love it, you are pussyphobic. It’s just been too much of the things I listed above and everyone got tired of hearing about it. That’s from my POV anyways. I still voted Democrat but I will be moving my party to independent after the next presidential race if there are still geezers in the Dem party leadership or of they they try running a woman again. I’m sick of having to side with a bunch of shit I don’t care about because it’s the party of less evil. I served my country in the military, I’m over our politics, it’s time for a new generation to give a fuck or it will get worse for you. I’m good. Godspeed weirdos. Edit phone rant and I agree with the person above me just not on the dead centrist theory.
Nonsense, Kamala had 0 left leaning policy and also never mentioned trans people in her entire campaign. She tacked to the centre further than Biden on every single issue, not disputing your other anecdotes but you are seriously misled if you think the Democrats are anything except centre-right.
Republicans who want to round up minorities, prevent women from having the ability to abort fetuses that result from rape, and prevent any and all lgbtq people from existing in public.
Calling them the lesser of two evils shows you have no fucking clue.
That or you are lying like most right wingers and centrists.
‘Oh I have to be a nazi now because you called me one 😭’
You are aware that the T in LGBTQ+ stands for Trans right? Cuz it seems like you dont
https://glaad.org/harris-accountability-tracker/
Here, educate yourself
I just looked through all of that and there’s nothing as you describe from her campaign itself. Even outside of her campaign there is only lip service and commemoration for the victims of the pulse terror attack.
Unless you count saying trans people should receive medically necessary treatment as supportive? It’s a literal non-statement, words that mean very little, her support here is aesthetic at best.