• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Why should she have to play games ‘motivating’ people who could see she was significantly better than trump?

    Because that’s called politics. When you actually care more about winning than about making sure progressives lose, you try to get people to vote for you instead of regarding them with open contempt.

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      15 hours ago

      It seems like you are projecting this ‘open contempt’. In an ideal democracy, a politician should state their platform and people should select the best one and vote.
      She was clearly a better candidate with better policy than trump - and if people saw that they should have voted for her. Saying ‘she didn’t pander to me enough’, or ‘wasn’t perfectly aligned with my ideals’ is stupid in the face of trump as the other option.
      Yes, she could have said a bunch of pings - she could have lied and attempted to get votes through a populist approach, and maybe that’s what the democrats need to do, as sad as it is. But that’s only because too many Americans are stupid and won’t vote for the obviously better candidate for … reasons.

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        6 hours ago

        It seems like you are projecting this ‘open contempt’.

        You’re gaslighting. No “it seems”.

        But that’s only because too many Americans are stupid and won’t vote for the obviously better candidate for … reasons.

        Politicians who are interested in beating their opponents try to appeal to the electorate they have, not the electorate you prefer. And I want to make it clear, the electorate centrists prefer is comprised entirely of netanyahu clones.