It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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    3 months ago

    People who would ever consider voting for the Toupee have no standards. No bar, no logic or even thought goes in to who they vote for.

    The people who are planning to vote against the Toupee have standards. And the Democratic party has continually failed to meet those standards. And the only time the people have any power to pressure a politician is when they’re running for office. Anyone claiming “just vote in the D, then we can focus on getting progress made” is a centrist who is ok being perpetually part of the oppressed class.

    Yes, we need to vote against the Toupee, and the GOP in general. We also need a presidential administration who will get progress done. And since the human species has, at best, 30 years left before the majority of the world is uninhabitable, little baby steps won’t cut it.

    So Harris and the Dems have a high bar. Because the alternative is fascism, or death by climate change.

          • davidagain@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Yeah, the vast majority of the “genocide” screamers are Trump supporters trying to demotivate left leaning folks from voting Democratic.

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Scream at everyone on a small niche internet forum who says anything about politics without mentioning the thing everybody already knows about

      • jhymesba@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        This poster doesn’t care one whit about the plight of Palestinians. It has but one goal – to be the nerdy girl that helps peel votes off the votes from the nerdy guy so her friend, the jerkish cheerleader favoured by the Jocks, can win the SGA election 49 to 48 to 3 (I’ve posted this example of how government works in First Past the Post if you’d like to understand what I mean by nerd girl and cheerleader in SGA). The purpose of this poster and others like it is to throw the election to Trump so we’re subjected to Project 2025, which incidentally aligns with Putin’s and Xi’s goals.

        Please think carefully before you listen to this poster or any other like it.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          “The only people who care about Genocide are those who vote in favor of it”

          Thanks for the comment definitely not alt account that came out of retirement but acts like an active poster.

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Anyone claiming “just vote in the D, then we can focus on getting progress made” is a centrist who is ok being perpetually part of the oppressed class.

      Well if that isn’t just the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That would add up if you thought people should choose fascism or death from climate change over some sense of chance.

      We need to make larger demands, but voting for those options you listed shouldn’t be 50/50 as the post is questioning.