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This was a self-inflicted wound.

* Weak, deceptive, evasive candidate

* Entitled attitude in the party

* Unknown people running the party. Still.

* Full embrace of cray cray ideologies, rejection of meritocracy

* Disengagement and withdrawal from free discussion forums

* Using X to talk only about sports. Looking at you, Gruber

* Constant ineffective, ignorant, and ill-informed trolling of their perceived opponents while unwittingly creating new ones

* Disingenuously labeling the other side as "garbage" (said by Biden, and he is President, not a jerk racist comedian)

* Assuming and never questioning the assumption, that people voting for a bad candidate love that candidate.

* Taking the low road

* Hiding Biden's incompetence, then, when caught, letting him stick around

* Accepting the notion that one can negotiate a peace deal with Hamas

* All the other things people are pretending were the only problems: the economy, immigration, etc. which genuinely also were problems.

There are a lot of things the Democratic party had going for it. They really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory:

* The Republican candidate is one of the worst people you could possibly imagine for the job.

* He is (I believe) a rapist, for god's sake

* He's nearly as demented as Biden

* He lies even more than Kamala

* Anti-woman is an understatement

Democrats have to ask themselves, who is running our party, and for what ends? I don't think they know. I don't even recognize what they are now.

It's not the economy, stupid. It's the trolling, the disengagement, and the entitlement. They are off-putting.



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