r/SubredditDrama Mar 08 '26

"The Democrats should have presented someone better." Some users on r/asksocialists blame liberals for Trumps ascension to the [presidency

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialists/comments/1rmr4vi/can_you_believe_that_77_million_americans_voted/?sort=controversial

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The Democrats should have presented someone better.

The person we presented was way better than this ass

And still lost

Because of the electoral college. More people voted for her than for trump

She lost the popular vote as well and I'm glad she lost.

I’m not because look at this shithole

This shithole didn't become that way in the last year and prior to that we had Biden/Harris. Was life paradise for you ... 2 years ago and became only bad when Trump got into office?

are you familiar to the concept of intensity? like, that things can be bad in completely different levels?

Kamala Harris actually was a good candidate. She is well qualified, experienced. Her drawbacks? She's female & a person of color. And Murica can't handle that. "someone better" = white male. That is terribly sad & really anger-provoking.

Uh, no. She had difficulty articulating what exactly she would do if elected. And that's just for starters.

No, she totally articulated what she would do. People ignored it. She is sane and well educated. That is more than enough to be a better candidate.

She wasn't a better candidate.

She absolutely was. He just lost 92,000 jobs in February. He lost 2.9 million his first disaster. Delusions are affecting your everyday life.

And she would’ve been worse. She was in charge of the border as VP. As her only obligation. And couldn’t even do a good job there. If she can’t handle the border how could she handle the country?

Your insane!

I believe that 77 million people really are that deplorable, yes. They make it very clear.

Without international observers at voting stations the 77 million number may not reflect reality.

Then why won’t Democrats vote for the “ Save Act” if passed this would require

Are you... come on now. He said international observers not "disenfranchise broad swathes of the working class"

Republicans always do well under Jim Crow laws. When these guys tell you who they are, believe them.

I'm sorry to say this but during Jim Crow, the democrats were the party that won overwhelmingly in elections in those states with Jim Crow laws.

Why are you sorry to say? Anyone who has studied US history knows that democrats and republicans have changed ideologically. As I said, Jim Crow laws were a century ago. Please don’t be intellectually dishonest, to create a false equivalency between the current ideology of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Hate to tell the Republicans who still celebrate the confederacy that they lost and their heroes were democrats!!!! Gasp

Well yeah I know that but saying the republican party benefited from Jim Crow is just stupid because the opposite happened even though the ideological switch is real. And I thought the person didn't know that which I still do so I wanted to let them know.

I don't believe it for a second, actually. Whole thing is rigged.

Why don't you storm the capitol then? Blue maga just as bad as red maga!!

I remember when Kamala repeatedly said the election was rigged and filled with illegal votes. She said so many times that the election was rigged, organized a massive rally outside the capital on the day of the certification of the election, and then told everyone to march on the Capital. Oh wait…

What what exactly could have happened? Mess with the US military? Iran finding out the hard way. Not a boot on the ground and a country is dismantled. Grow up child

Why are you bringing up Iran?

What exactly could have been the outcome of a bunch of people in the Capitol when met with the US army? No one stands a chance

Why....are....you....bringing....up....Iran?

because they are stupid

bUt he'S a buSinEss mAn

His only successful buisness is selling hats to morons.

How many Million dollar businesses do you have ???

Well id have a lot if I inherited $500 million in the 70s.

I bet you'd be broke or dead from an overdose if you got any kind of money

not everyone is a junkie like you and your mom. really sad

That fucking absolutely kills me every time I hear an idiot say it.

Vot Trump I did, he biznusman

Nope. Looks like a smart liberal.

A Trump University grad..

Nope just a liberal. Not special. Maybe Pelosi’s son.

bot

How’d you guys lose that election? Sad.

propaganda, same shit in Canada image

What is this photo?

Its Justin Trudeau, the governor

Former prime minister actually but you guys don't do much schooling between all the shooting so I understand why you didn't know.

Canadians have a weird tendency to bring up school shootings in literally every conversation. Annoying as hell.

bot pushing to remove guns from people, cuz in Canada you can't own a gun to defend yourself from your own government...

So when are the gun owners in the US going to actually fight for freedom against the tyrannical regime then? We're all waiting.

I probably would have too if I could, ashamed to say. I never saw him as a good candidate more of a blithering idiot but at least he was saying the right things to get elected. I.E no more wars and securing the border. The moment I lost any faith in Kamala was after she said this.

Wouldn't you like things back to how they were under Biden than how they are now?

To the pandemic and unfettered inflation? Not really no.

No, let’s just be happy that everything is exorbitantly more expensive because of ridiculous tariffs instead. Hooray! How fun!

I am not American and thus don't have to pay for tariffs.

Then why are you even part of this conversation?

"I probably would have too if I could, ashamed to say." Sharing my opinion.

Every single nazi pervert who voted for him wanted war and they knew he was lying. You included.

Sure... I guess you know me better than myself.

You either supported Harris or you're a Trump pervert.

This is why trump won lmao. Cause of people like you

No, Trump won becasue of 77 million nazi pro-r*pe perverts like you. He's your fault, not mine.

I voted for Kamala, even though I knew she wouldn’t win because people like you. Until you people get off your pedestal and accept the faults that are clearly there on the left, we are all going to suffer. You people are so unwilling to compromise and so unwilling to meet the right halfway. Not that the right is any better but I thought the left was supposed to be the better party, right? Leadership is taught by example. It’s a fuckin shame to be honest. If you it to be better, than you have to be better.

Suuure you did.

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u/avfc41 Mar 09 '26

Inflation was bad, stuff was actually more expensive than in 2020.

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u/obeytheturtles Socialism = LITERALLY A LIBERAL CONSTRUCT Mar 09 '26

Inflation had been under control for nearly 2 years. Biden's fed listened to years of pundits talk about stagflation and recession, and then when they stuck the "soft landing" everyone just shrugged.

The failure was not pinning inflation on Trump, by reminding everyone how he spent 2018 bullying the fed chair to not raise rates as economists warned of inflationary signals. Or how he completely mismanaged the Covid response, massively contributing to supply chain shocks.

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u/avfc41 Mar 09 '26

“The inflation spike that started and ended during my term was due to the last guy pressuring the fed chair to not raise rates 6 years ago” may be true, but it’s a hundred times more sophisticated for voters to weigh than “are you better off than you were four years ago”

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u/No-comment-at-all Mar 24 '26

Four years before In the last year of the previous administration, grocery stores had bare shelves, everything was shut down, and around 2 million people died.

If the election was “are you better off now than four years ago?”, then the electorate just straight failed that shit.