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"Tankies" made no measurable difference in the 2024 election. There's next to none of them in the USA. Go ahead: ask real people in your offline life what a tankie is, and see if even one single person has even heard that word.
Unless, of course, you're just applying that word to anyone whos not a Republican that's criticizing the dems. Then I suppose you'll find "tankies" everywhere.
It feels like a word that's just being used to divide the left.
There are definitely tactics being used to divide the left and the word tankie is not one of them. Purity politics is the death of left wing politics. The fact that people moved out of the way of blocking a legitimate facist government because Harris wasn't quiiite right is utter insanity
Why, then, are we running around calling people tankies when that is an ill-defined word that tends to change from person to person? I've seen it applied to everyone from left anarchists to starry-eyed idealists who call themselves communists, to actual Stalin-Did-Nothing-Wrong types (this last group deserves criticism, all twelve of them).
Focusing on an incredibly online, vocal minority is insanity, especially when your previous statement is about purity politics.
Shouldn't you question why Harris and the democratic establishment couldn't beat actual fascism? Could it be that Trump used real issues in our political environment for his messaging? He lies constantly about why the cost of living is going up, why good jobs aren't here anymore, etc, but Harris ran on a platform of "Vote for me, nothing will fundamentally change" and voters didn't find that attractive for some reason.
Even when voices within the party point out problems they are shouted down. Sure, Bernie is an independant, but he's been voting with the Dems the entire time, and they even pretended to let him run for nomination for president.
The democratic party has been shifting right for decades, and the only messaging they have to offer is that approved by their donors. It's bullshit and it repels people.
So you're just gonna sit there and act like propaganda influence on voters is not a thing
"Oh why could harris not beat fascists why did trump win i guess she just suuucked" is the awareness level of a potato
You chose to speak to me, someone who is talking about the word tankie and it's application here. If you'd like to talk about "propaganda influence" outside of the word tankie, I invite you to make your own top-level comment.
If you're implying tankies themselves have amazing propaganda brainwash powers that caused Harris to lose the election, I invite you to touch grass.
Are you of the opinion that the propaganda last election made Trump's victory inevitable? As in, there were no possible candidate or campaign that could have beaten him?
That's a question that sets up its own answer as a foregone conclusion. Rephrase please.
I'm just interrogating your statement. Yes, oppositional propaganda is a known phenomenon. It isn't new. If you are campaigning for election, your job is to overcome it somehow and win. Harris wasn't lacking funds and she had the (arguable) advantage of running from an incumbent administration, as well as the advantage of running against a clown like Trump.
There were loud and numerous warnings to and criticisms of her campaign from the left. She ignored that. I can't prove that's definitely what cost her the election, but there is no question that she could have run a very different campaign. Blaming her loss on propaganda is weak and defeatist. Find ways to win, not excuses to lose.