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The five BEST responses to Liberals moaning over the Dems’ US election collapse

The loss of Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election was resounding. And it’s clear why it happened. But as elite Liberals are on another planet, they’ll keep moaning about the inevitable Democratic collapse. So here are five simple ways to respond.

1) Listen to the people whose votes you want

After a year of the Biden-Harris administration participating in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Democratic election candidate Kamala Harris unsurprisingly lost. And it wasn’t close. The winning formula was clear to anyone willing to see it. But Harris and the people around her weren’t listening.

Harris ignored or failed to meaningfully address voters’ concerns about the economy and the genocide. Instead, she doubled down on disastrous neoliberal economics and tried to build an alliance with Republicans like war criminal Dick Cheney.

In power, the Democrats could have taken action to end global conflicts, but instead spurred them on. They could also have taken action to improve ordinary people’s material conditions, but they focused on keeping the rich and powerful happy instead. And American voters saw that.

Democrats seem to have haemorrhaged potentially millions of votes in comparison to 2020. A slightly lower turnout may have played a role. But as Tiberius summed up on X:

Polls also showed that changing position on the genocide could have benefited Harris, but she chose not to.

The genocide in Gaza has very much made a mockery of the ‘liberal international order’, but there are still some Liberals who are so out of touch that they think it’s Trump who will do away with it:

2) Treat people with respect

People online have highlighted the arrogance and hatefulness of some Democrats towards the people whom they expect to fall in line and vote for whatever awful candidate the party puts before them. And this epitomises the patronising attitude of entitlement that may have turned voters away:

3) Ignore establishment media propaganda

The awful US media system has also played a role, as always, in fooling voters, lulling them into a false sense of security, or pushing them into voting for the lesser evil time after time:

Harris was not a left-winger. Not even close. But you wouldn’t know that if you listen to the dominant corporate press.

People have rightly been critical of progressives like Bernie Sanders for playing into that. The former mainstream voice of the US left has consistently tried to encourage left-wingers to vote against their interests. He and others first got loyally behind Hillary Clinton, then Joe Biden, and then Harris, despite these elite mouthpieces offering the left next to nothing.

4) If you’re going to have any red line, genocide should be that red line

Some voters will inevitably have held their noses while voting for Harris with the aim of avoiding a Trump presidency. And although that may have been the best shot they had of avoiding a Trump victory due to the awful US electoral system, it was nothing to be proud of.

As Leanne Mohamed insisted:

Meanwhile, pro-Israel lobbyists were gloating about the power they had exerted in the election:

Will there be Liberals who suddenly oppose genocide when it’s Trump backing it? Who knows?

5) Ignore losers like Jon Ashworth

This one just goes without saying. If someone has shown they’re so out of touch with reality that they can lose a safe seat, you probably shouldn’t listen to them.

All of these messages, and more, are worth repeating as Liberals moan about Harris’s shameful and avoidable (yet inevitable) loss.

Featured image via the Canary

By Ed Sykes

This post was originally published on Canary.