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In reply to the discussion: About the CNN hit job on VP Harris... [View all]Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)Granted, that "Nobody" turned out to be one of the finest and most progressive presidents in a generation or two (or three), but our "Most Qualified Whateverthefuck" lost to a one-term no-namer Senator when she was at the top of her game, then had a fair (albeit unrealistic) chance at losing to someone just a few ticks rightwards of an actual communist. And then, AND THEN! She completely botched the campaign and foisted Trump on all of us by refusing to give a shit about anyone or anything outside of her political strongholds.
That's NOT the mark of a popular or effective (or electable, obviously) politician. Especially when the people who fought so hard and for so long to generously permit her the right to run for office abandoned her because she was just THAT unpopular. Immigrants. Women. The poor. Non-black POCs. The middle class. The very people that should have been in the Dem pocket simply... weren't. And no, you can't just blame that on "TehMedia (TM)", nor Comey, nor Russia, nor whatever else of the dozen asinine boogiemen people have conjured. For something that universal, not only within the country but without it, there must be something said for a candidate simply bringing too much baggage to the table.