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Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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My guy, you need to sit down and look up what the electoral college is.
Hillary lost Michigan by 10k votes, one of the key states whose 16 electoral votes were a major train went despite Hillary winning the popular vote, that fat, orange, white supremacist won the election.
You say a single voter doesn't matter but when you currently have 100k in Michigan voting 'uncommited' in the Democratic primary against the backdrop of you lost an entire god damn election by 10k, yeah maybe that single voter might actually be important. But you just keep that head in the sand and mumble how or can't ever happen again.
Hillary lost Michigan for the same reason Romney lost Michigan. She campaigned on a platform of international trade deals and domestic deindustrialization. Folks in the Midwest consistently hate that.
Biden's running a ten-point approval gap relative to Gretchen Whitmer, doing all the annoying toxic shit Hillary did. If he loses Michigan in November, that's why.
100k is a lot more than a single voter. And this is an entirely unforced error on Biden's part. He's continuing to sponsor a nightmarish genocide in Palestine - one that virtually nobody in his party actually supports and which has poisoned huge swaths of the independent electorate against his presidency.
That's not something a "single voter" can fix. That's a direct consequence of Biden's own foreign policy. The only voter who can save Joe Biden from a loss in Michigan is Joe Biden.
I hope Biden loses. I'll be voting third party, but I don't think my candidate will win. What I hope is that the next time a president has the opportunity to support a genocide, he'll think twice.
So when Trump wins and commits even harder to the genocide, you think that will teach Biden a lesson?
Yes, I hope it will prevent the next genocide by demonstrating that we Americans do in fact give a damn about war crimes and atrocities.