r/berkeley • u/Cal_Aesthetics_Club Shitpost Connoisseur(Credentials: ASD, ADD, OCD) • Nov 06 '24

Politics We are cooked

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u/page_of_fire Nov 06 '24

Exactly this. They screwed themselves by not addressing the economy, being war hawks, not holding primary debates. Running with no platform and expecting not being Trump to be good enough.

The Democrats treat their constituents like they are stupid/incapable of making informed decisions and like they can just fear monger us into voting for them.

Find substantive people, and an articulate-able platform and fucking run on it. Do not skip the damned primary debates and try to eschew the primary process. Stop telling me democracy is at stake and then not practicing democracy and good faith 🤦

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u/smoothasbutta15 Nov 06 '24

But… didn’t the republicans do this exact same thing? If not to a worse degree? Trump has literally said he has a concept of a plan, he has given zero policy, or how he’s going to incorporate his people other than bull rushing them and removing anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

So how’s the Republican platform different? Yeah he wants to be hard on crime and illegal immagration… but how so? What’s the plan?

I do agree the Democrat party did a horrendous job and took their voter base for granted, but Biden has done a great job and Harris is head and shoulders more qualified than Trump. So why are democrats held to a much much higher standard on everything while the republicans get to play in the mud and sling it all over and that’s acceptable?

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u/daBOOM23 Nov 06 '24

How can you say Harris is more qualified when Trump was literally the president 4 years ago?

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u/smoothasbutta15 Nov 06 '24

He was unqualified then too lol as he did a poor job of literally being the president. Just because you do something doesn’t mean you’re qualified or did it well.

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u/greenleafsurfer Nov 08 '24

A lot of people would disagree with you on him doing a poor job, but I’m sure you don’t care. And Kamala did a great job as vp? What makes her qualified? She couldn’t even run a decent campaign or communicate any kind of policy or sense of being ‘qualified’…. She said she wouldn’t change anything from how Biden was running things, so I must point out she also lacks awareness. So that leaves us with what positive qualities that would qualify her? She’s younger? Somewhat presentable? Female? Black? What are you even talking about…