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@GreenFire based on the chart you posted 70% of Americans don't believe you, and I bet there were a bunch like me who voted for Harris without believing she was a good candidate, just the lesser of two evils.

@GreenFire The first step to increasing voter turn out will be to have choices that don't both suck. Implementing a system where someone other than the Democrat or Republican has a chance would be a good start.

@Bellison22 "DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This" [satire] https://thehardtimes.net/culture/dnc-announces-plans-to-learn-nothing-from-this/

@nedhamson1

10 million people who voted for Biden, but are you sure they were Democrats? Just because a "Never Trump" Republican voted cross party in 2020 doesn't make them a Democrat. To me it seem like the majority of those 10 million missing votes are Republican and Independent voters (along with some progressives) who chose the couch this time. It looks to me like Harris did a reasonable job at turning out the Democratic party base.

@Bellison22

@steve The US had the best aggregate economy in the world, but also one of the most unequal. If you look at the economic recovery of the bottom 70% of Americans (a group that largly overlaps "people without college degrees") then the economy still sucks. Inflation being down does not mean a doubling of food and housing prices is not crushing working class americans who spend a disproportionately large percentage of their income on items that the fed doesn't count in it "core inflation." This idea that inflation has come down is like the driver that says to the cop, "I was no longer speeding once my care went into the lake."

@DarthPutinKGB We could also offer the Sudetenland and have peace in our time, right?