2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

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rodoheel said:
I'm sort of out of ideas for how to explain to leftists that not voting for Harris isn't punishing her at all, it's punishing leftists and the causes they claim to care about. If Kamala Harris doesn't win the presidency she'll still be rich, famous, and politically influential. But leftists will see issues they claim to care about get worse all over the map - from Gaza to immigration to health care to economic reform. You simply cannot reason with some of these people; they refuse to acknowledge basic cause and effect. They always focus on this idea of whether Kamala or Democrats "deserve" their vote or whether their conscience permits them to cast a vote "in favor of genocide" or that they are going to "send a message to Democrats" by withholding their vote. They routinely exhibit a complete misunderstanding of political incentives and the way political power is gained and exercised. I don't know whether it's naivete or immaturity or what. Just can't seem to break through and convince them that they aren't going to succeed in punishing anyone but themselves and the people they claim to care about.
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I was on my way to write essentially this, point for point, then read your post.

The factor I imagine is at work in this utterly baffling cut-off-thy-nose-to-spite-thy-face is maybe these communities have already been through so much awful, that further awfulness is a price worth paying for retribution. They assume awfulness will occur either way, but recency bias ingrains the possibility that a hypothetical ttump admin isn't as bad for Gaza than the well documented awfulness of the current moment. Thus, I have control over punishing Harris and the Democrats, and maybe, just maybe a ttump admin will end this (it won't, it'll get worse).
 
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HeelingAg said:
I was on my way to write essentially this, point for point, then read your post.

The factor I imagine is at work in this utterly baffling cut-off-thy-nose-to-spite-thy-face is maybe these communities have already been through so much awful, that further awfulness is a price worth paying for retribution. They assume awfulness will occur either way, but recency bias ingrains the possibility that a hypothetical ttump admin isn't as bad for Gaza than the well document awfulness or the current moment. Thus, I have control over punishing Harris and the Democrats, and maybe, just maybe a ttump admin will end this (it won't, it'll get worse).
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I don’t want to rehash this argument again, just want to point out that the Gaza dynamic is a bit more complex than just leftists not voting for Harris.

She has major issues with Arab voters because of Gaza. I don’t think they’re all leftists. Most of these people voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Leftists aren’t voting Trump over Harris. It seems like a lot of Arab voters will vote Trump over Harris.

Again, not making an argument about the efficacy of doing this.
 
dukeman92 said:
After she was introduced, Harris thanked everyone for being there and answered some questions from AC and explained the stark contrast between herself and the tangerine tyrant and included in that answer she mentioned ALL the republicans who’ve come out in support of her and endorsed her, campaigning with Liz Cheney etc… and the FIRST question was from a women who asked her how she would work with republicans to narrow the divide between us…. Like ma’am did you hear ANY of what she JUST said?
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To be fair, I guarantee those questions are vetted 13 times and you're not allowed to say a word off your submitted question.
 
Paine said:
I don’t want to rehash this argument again, just want to point out that the Gaza dynamic is a bit more complex than just leftists not voting for Harris.

She has major issues with Arab voters because of Gaza. I don’t think they’re all leftists. Most of these people voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Leftists aren’t voting Trump over Harris. It seems like a lot of Arab voters will vote Trump over Harris.

Again, not making an argument about the efficacy of doing this.
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Leftist or not, Arab voters typically vote for Dems, so if they sit this one out and Trump wins in part because of them I will have no sympathy when he targets their community and eviscerates their policy goals.
 
Enigma94 said:
Leftist or not, Arab voters typically vote for Dems, so if they sit this one out and Trump wins in part because of them I will have no sympathy when he targets their community and eviscerates their policy goals.
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I get that, but I will still have sympathy for them, in the same way that I have sympathy for rural Trump voters who are hurt by Republican policies.
 
HeelingAg said:
I was on my way to write essentially this, point for point, then read your post.

The factor I imagine is at work in this utterly baffling cut-off-thy-nose-to-spite-thy-face is maybe these communities have already been through so much awful, that further awfulness is a price worth paying for retribution. They assume awfulness will occur either way, but recency bias ingrains the possibility that a hypothetical ttump admin isn't as bad for Gaza than the well document awfulness or the current moment. Thus, I have control over punishing Harris and the Democrats, and maybe, just maybe a ttump admin will end this (it won't, it'll get worse).
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Yeah and even that view is just a myopic focus on Gaza, ignoring all the other marginalized groups who will suffer immensely under a Trump presidency (poor immigrant communities, refugees, poor women who need abortions and reproductive care, etc). The world is a big and complicated place, and I just don't understand boiling your entire political identify down to one specific group of people, no matter how horribly they're being treated - and even then refusing to choose the electoral decision that has the best chance to help them.
 
rodoheel said:
I'm sort of out of ideas for how to explain to leftists that not voting for Harris isn't punishing her at all, it's punishing leftists and the causes they claim to care about. If Kamala Harris doesn't win the presidency she'll still be rich, famous, and politically influential. But leftists will see issues they claim to care about get worse all over the map - from Gaza to immigration to health care to economic reform. You simply cannot reason with some of these people; they refuse to acknowledge basic cause and effect. They always focus on this idea of whether Kamala or Democrats "deserve" their vote or whether their conscience permits them to cast a vote "in favor of genocide" or that they are going to "send a message to Democrats" by withholding their vote. They routinely exhibit a complete misunderstanding of political incentives and the way political power is gained and exercised. I don't know whether it's naivete or immaturity or what. Just can't seem to break through and convince them that they aren't going to succeed in punishing anyone but themselves and the people they claim to care about.
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Leftists gave us GWB and Trump... and may give us Trump, the sequel:(
 
lightbluenc said:
Dems have been bending over backwards (example the border bill) to work with Republicans for 4 years. But R's don't want to give any ground or give any "wins" to a Dem administration at the cost to the American people. R's then blame "Washington" for not getting things done.
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It's a basic part of the Pub playbook...use the power of Pubs in elected offices to break or make less efficient/effective the workings of the government and then tout those very problems as why the government is bad.
 
Carolina Fever said:
Trump was right in saying he could kill someone in the middle of the street in broad daylight and his cult members would still worship him. They don't care what HE does as long as he gets them what they want, a fascist country only for straight white Christian nationalists.
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This gets repeated over and over but it is simply not an accurate representation of many in the MAGA cult. It describes some but it does not in any way describe them all.

One thing they have in common is that none of them believe anything negative that comes out about Trump. One reason for this is that they are too vested in the cult of personality. The cognitive dissonance that would arise if they believed the worst about Trump would be mentally debilitating.

That is most obvious for those who believe Trump is some type of messianic figure. Trump is now so tied into their belief system that questioning one threatens the other.
 
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