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Fox News caption: BY WINNING, DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY LOSING

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

If there is any loss, it'll be like one poster said about the Dems failing to follow the Overton window left, but I think there's another possible negative; the pendulum swing.

Without Obama, there'd be no trump1. Without Biden/Harris, there'd be no trump2. If we shift far enough left, I'm concerned how far the pendulum will swing right afterwards.

This is not to say Zohran Mamdani's win wasn't wonderful and probably the best thing to happen to this country in... probably decades. I'm just acutely aware that this country is probably going to continue to be divided and will keep doing its craziness.

[–] ronl2k@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without Obama, there’d be no trump1.

Trump didn't run against Obama. Obama would have mopped the floor with Trump if he had been allowed to be the Democratic candidate instead of Hillary Clinton. Hillary lost only because she is a poor campaigner who ignored the swing states and appealed too heavily to feminist ideology.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

You misunderstand my point. The political leanings of the country as a whole are like a pendulum. The pendulum was swung when Obama was elected. This made all of the fragile racists afraid and so they wanted a strong man to replace Obama. Enter Trump: the perfect shit heel to fill the bill.

Pendulum swung back to the right; Trump was elected.

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