• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    More and more I’m convinced “Messaging” was by far the biggest shortcoming of Biden’s administration. They did or started so many things to benefit us all that they never got credit for

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        They just aren’t good at messaging, period. It’s hard to believe how incompetent they are.

        Biden’s messaging on the economy was a total disaster. Trying to gaslight people into thinking the economy was great when their lived experience proved otherwise was never going to work. It made people distrust anything the Dems said and set Kamala up for failure as well.

        It’s especially stupid when the Dems never bothered to invest in their own media empire like the GOP did.

        It doesn’t matter whether inflation was biden’s fault or not, politics is mostly about people’s feelings.

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      22 hours ago

      I mean there is valid points here the Biden admin failed to take credit for their own wins.

      But also like they did historic (up til Trump ofc) expansions in ICE, were deregulating industry, refused to make his campaign policies materialize like single payer healthcare, and ran cover for genocide for 2 years

      To call messaging the biggest shortcoming I think is doing a lot of heavy lifting to talk past a lot of the generally abhorrent things.

      Personally I find maintaining and funding genocide to be a much more substantial shortcoming than messaging largely because the whole world saw the admin lying to us for 2 whole years without even batting an eye and it was one of the most substantive reasons Trump is now in power.

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        12 hours ago

        But also like they did historic (up til Trump ofc) expansions in ICE, were deregulating industry,

        This is to appeal to the morons they lost to.

        deregulating industry,

        What??? Biden was in so many ways better at regulating industry than other presidents. Lina Khan did work.

        refused to make his campaign policies materialize like single payer healthcare

        In what alternate universe did you hear him make that promise?

        and ran cover for genocide

        Yup, but people do have to remember the alternative we have now is literally worse on this in every conceivable way. Also, I feel fairly confident in my assumption mossad has the best blackmail in the world… The things israel gets away with…

        and it was one of the most substantive reasons Trump is now in power.

        This is utterly nonsensical. People who are not brain dead did not see trump, who wants the palestinians all to die, very publicly, and think “well joe is still bad, so lets think worse”. That would be a brain rot psyop level of non thought.

        I think democrats lost because people were racist and sexist, people didn’t feel spoken too by someone with charisma (partially tied to the first, but also shes literally an EX DA…), the world has been seeing a bad shift in key metrics, and people who don’t pay attention just blame that on whoever is currently in power.

        There were probably more, but I think those are the key ones and think the idea that palestine is what made kamela lose is something that people who only pretend to care say.

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          3 hours ago

          Go look at the polling for why people voted the way they did.

          People voted for change. Trump offered it with lies. Kamala did nothing. It’s really that cut and dry .

          Between genocide and a refusal to speak to economic needs she lost. End of story.

          Sure there are people who didnt vote for her because her intersectionality of a black Indian woman but that isn’t what lost her election no matter how hard to try to spin your cope.

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        20 hours ago

        This is one of the reasons Kamala would have been great. Trump has demonstrated that even when the news hates you, being in the news is better than not being in the news. Can you imagine the attention Kamala would have gotten just for being a black woman? The right would have done her work for her.