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Same reason they embraced every policy that killed the Biden campaign; Median Voter Theory.
Democrats imagine a swing voter who agrees with 80% of what the republicans say, and then adjust their own policy and messaging to appeal to that imaginary voter.
They are still afraid of Reagan democrats even though this isn't 1984 in the morning, and that's the generous explanation. The less generous explanation is that there are controlled opposition party and they threw the election on purpose
From what I've heard, top Democrats hamstrung Harris' already patched together campaign. She was up against the clock and they threw a wrench in it because they didn't want to offend the "fuck your feelings" crowd.
That was around the time the campaign's approval peaked too, if I remember right. People liked when Walz called Republicans out and actually stated the obvious, but the DNC leadership decided after 2000 that they don't give a shit about what Democratic voters want; the DNC was already handing the country to Trump again long before Biden even dropped out.
The democratic party and trying to court the unreasonable illogical conservative vote, name a more iconic duo
I don't want to appease anyone who's "moderate." The US is right enough as it is. Especially now, if the US wants to recover from Trump, it needs to make a very aggressive and swift push to the left.
name a more iconic duo
Capitalism and the erosion of democracy.
There were really loud persuasive voices calling for the Dems to try to siphon off dissatisfied GOP voters. Apparently they convinced their overpaid advisors because sure as shit Kamala was campaigning with a fucking Cheney (who at least has a soul but still a piece of crap politically).
Year after year they watch the success of Bernie and other leftist candidates and decide they're going to tack right JUST ONE MORE TIME. Definitely goes to show how well the right has demonized the left.
Because the Democratic Party leadership decided it was too effective and told Walz to back off
How do they all just look evil
Combination of careful choice of photos and them genuinely being evil, I guess 🤷
Why did we ever stop calling them weird?
Because it has been normalised.
By the way OP, you missed the opportunity to call them of GOP-- the shorthand for guardians of pedophiles.
Yeah they're weirdo freaks. Incompetent and corrupt but definitely also weird.
Criminals who need to be in prison, not weird, the justice system is weird for not enforcing penalties for criminals of child sexual abuse
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tldr "we" stopped calling them weird because it was actually working and democrats are allergic to winning. sample as that.
see, fascists love being perceived as scary, bad, even evil... fascism is an ideology of insecurity. crying about how scary they are, how threatened you feel, how they'll destroy everything you hold dear... that gives them power. they love that shit.
if anything you're pushing more pathetic insecure cunts to their side because they would rather side with the scary villains who say they will actually do shit than the people who just whine and do nothing else.
but calling them weird really, really annoyed them. to the point that they tried to reverse uno it ("i think saying men can be women is what's weird!") and pretend they don't care ("everyone's weird in a way, right? right?") or even outright cry that you should stop.
it was working because the bottomless insecurity that makes fascism appealing to begin with relies on defaultism of the self. to them they must be the default and everyone else must be weird. these are people who have nothing going for them. no personality, no morals, no one who likes them. they must be superior because they're the normal ones. that's all that they can cling to. that's why bigotry is easy for them. they can be superior for no reason other than existing as themselves. being white, straight, cis, having born somewhere... things they don't have to work for. things you can't take away from them. those things must be normal.
once you take that away they can't deal with that. being scary is powerful. being weird, bad weird, that's what others are supposed to be. that's not superior. it's not powerful. so they hated that.
naturally democrats realized it was a good play so they stopped it and instead insisted that you be impressed by how Liz fucking Cheney and other fucking republican demons endorsed the democratic candidate. wow thanks.
tldr "we" stopped calling them weird because it was actually working and democrats are allergic to winning. sample as that.
In other words: “controlled opposition”
I'm guessing actual human skeletons at this point.
You are missing so many more.
Mike Johnson needs to be on that poster. Then we need to blow it up and have ir all billboards and tv advertising 24 hours a day. I say on Faux News.
The devil's advocates.
