Because I am really struggling to find anything more to say about the horror show we find ourselves in but am not yet ready to throw in the towel on this blog writing thing, I am presenting yet another rant on the topic of the piss poor electorate that proves yet again that people can not be trusted with democracy.* The below is from yet another correspondence with a leftist who felt it important not to reward Kamala Harris with his vote on election day. Out of the blue, he shared with me a series of Bluesky skeets on the topic of the deserved unpopularity of Biden's senile Gaza policy, which was fine and truthful. But the Bluesky poster (skeeter?) who wrote the thread could not resist tacking on the name of Kamala Harris to every other post in a clear attempt to tar her and those still regretting her loss with the same brush.
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In the long series of generally insightful posts by [poster who I will refer to mercifully as "Skeeter" rather than by his Bluesky name] on Biden and Gaza, it’s ruined for me by the very stilted insertion of Kamala Harris in every other post. This is the kind of thing that drives me crazy. Take her out of it. It’s only done to make yourself (Skeeter) feel better about your complicity in Trump’s victory. Nobody’s fooled. Nobody fuckin knows what KH would have done as president. You (Skeeter) are not absolved.
Casually slipping her in to the conversation really trivializes Biden’s psychopathy in my view. We all know why you’re doing it. I don’t forgive you! (Skeeter) ^_^ You ruined your excellent points about Biden. C’mon man!
I know it makes you feel better to assert that Kamala would have continued Biden's Gaza policy unabated. But what’s the point? She didn’t win. We lost—meaning we who preferred our chances with Kamala because we were determined to stop Trump. We lost already. Everyone else won, including the people who did not want Kamala to win simply because they were for reasons of principle not particularly focused on the difference between Kamala and Trump.
Kamala did a very bad job with people who have an unsophisticated notion of politics. That was her bad, that was on her. She fucked that up irreparably. It’s the bulk of why she lost. She did bad with every one else too, but part of a sophisticated understanding of politics is that in an election one of two futures will win. The choice will be stupid because everybody, even those whose understanding of politics is so sophisticated that they understand both futures are deficient, use one day to administer to their politics and it is the wrong day because it’s already too late to administer to your politics on election day. "None of the Above" never wins. Your vote has consequences. You did not want Kamala Harris to win. You got your way. Behold the consequences. I am unceasingly annoyed by the endless justification for not taking election day seriously, for squandering it on a performance.
I will stop reflexively complaining about this when people stop trying to rationalize to me why they squandered their opportunity to prevent harm. I don’t really want to see proof that Kamala promised that if elected she was going to equal Biden in Gaza. She was told to say that. She didn’t have to, and that’s on her. But no one could possibly equal the demented, brain deficient psycho Joe Biden on Gaza. She lied like a politician and also like a weak vice president (who was reportedly shut out of policy discussions for the entire administration.) Anyway. Not to re-litigate but those who did not vote for Kamala should frankly shut up about the election. It’s unseemly to gloat about a victory—especially when your part in the victory was sweeping the obstacle of yourself out of the way of the guy who won.
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* For the sake of the people, Democracy has to be left to chance.
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