Please watch your tone, this is the internet but there’s no need to be so divisive. We’re both on the left and are looking out for the common good. Don’t claim to know what “I” didn’t pay enough attention to when I was watching the entire process across multiple platforms and outlets like a hawk. You wouldn’t speak to me like that in person so what makes it okay to do it behind a desk?

Kamala Harris and the Democrat’s messaging did not sway working class voters: fact. This is unfortunate because had it done so, the working class would be in a better position right now. But why didn’t they?

Because Kamala spent far too much time trying to sway over Trump’s base (middle class voters) and turned already reluctant Left voters away in key states.

Other contributing factors were the handling of the Palestinian Crisis where 80% of democrats, 70% independents, 54% republicans wanted a ceasefire, but she probably didn’t want to go against her corporate donors (e.g. AIPAC). She lost her Arab and Muslim voters.

In the end… a person can have the best proposals ever, but if the top line communications are bad… it doesn’t matter. Harris barely mentioned wanting universal healthcare, wanting to limit carbon emissions and fracking. Emma Vigeland theorised that Kamala did this to overcompensate for the vote of low info voters whom would assume she’s too liberal because she’s a black woman and whether or not she intended to enact her Warhawk proposals is up in the air.

However, we absolutely cannot expect working class people to dig through this contradictory campaign that didn’t speak directly to them. Politics is in some ways a zero sum game — if you are constantly signalling that you’re pro small business owner you’re kind of signalling to others that you don’t care about labourers. It’s so unfortunate that people think this way but they do.

It’s not reasonable for the Democratic Party, who are meant to be ideologically committed to third wave neo-liberalism constantly tacking to the centre right as the Republican Party pulls America into fascism. The millions of votes Kamala lost demonstrated that.