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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

There are so many reasons.

1. Millions of American men -- and women -- won't trust a woman to control her own body. So they will NEVER let a woman control nuclear weapons.

2. Democrats say, "The government can do good things." All many Americans want from the government are lower taxes, plenty of federal entitlements (and never mind the inconsistency), cops that get rid of street crime (but take bribes to avoid tickets), "those awful minorities" out of their neighborhoods, so that they don't bring down the property values, people they can't stand kept in their place (e.g., gays, women, "libtards"), news that tells them what they want to hear, being able to possess more weapons in their home than the 2nd Marine Division, and everybody jumping to their feet and singing the National Anthem before the WWE match.

3. Too many Americans don't care about Climate Change, corporate crime, and mistreating anyone they consider beneath them. Climate Change is a fake invented by egghead scientists (and not mentioned in the Bible), corporate crime is just part of doing business (they have to bribe Housing Code inspectors), and people they think are beneath them should stay there.

4. The Democrats talk to each other, and not the people above. They need good cases to give to those folks above, who worship Mayonnaise, WWE, Budweiser, and AR-15s.

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Annabel Ascher's avatar

Yes, there are Americans like that. Lots of them. But not enough to legitimately win this election. Maybe 40% of VOTERS. Not enough. The biggest majority does not vote at all.

The fault was in not demanding a recount immediately, in conceding too soon, and in not even attempting to use 14-3. The Democrats collapsed because they don't know how to fight in the ugly way that the MAGA do.

We better learn. It will be much harder now.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Unfortunately, the American people are pretty bloody stupid.

They think WWE is real, the 2020 Presidential election rigged. 9/11 was a government conspiracy, but the lunar landing faked. Elvis is alive, and Bigfoot is prowling the Northwest mountains. The rioters of January 6 are heroes, but opponents of the Vietnam War are traitors. Gay men are trying to rape little girls.

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Ladonna's avatar

Machine tampering is not just a theory. It's real. And you have a point about democrats being culturally non-offensive and too protective on the 'rights and freedoms' we cherish. nobody has the right to stop me or my children from taking vaccines or wearing masks. Nobody has the right to shove human beings onto a bus and drop them off in the freezing cold outside of an officials residence...to steal money from unsuspecting donors or foundation.....to be above the laws...to be traitors to the existing government......to incite violence...to place citizens in harms way,etc,etc.

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Annabel Ascher's avatar

Yeah--they did it. But we can't prove it because NOBODY IN POWER DEMANDED A RECOUNT!! As long as I live I will never completely understand this.

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Ladonna's avatar

I Know -Why? Maybe they want the evidence. It”s very hard to see what these computer programs can do. Often they have spyware in the mainframe they use to enter your programs and make changes and delete things and add some. Then stay sneak out there own entry leaving no trace of being there. Even if they”d just recounted Florida they’d have proof. I don’t get it either.

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Michael Golden's avatar

Very interesting, Annabel. Yesterday Harris's chief ad-maker talked with me about the power of the "conservative media eco-system." https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoldenmean2040/p/democrats-better-adjust-their-media?r=2n1e7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Dan Stipe's avatar

Well said, Annabel. Subscribed.

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