Blaming the Voters

W.J. Astore

Democrats Return to What They Do Best

The Democratic Party is returning to what they do best: blaming the voters for their defeat.

Why did Kamala lose? Racism and sexism. Duh. And white women. And Hispanics. And Black men. They just didn’t do what they were supposed to do, which was to vote for Kamala. After all, she was the candidate handpicked for you by the DNC elite. Geez, what more do you want? Look at the joy below!

You expected them to dazzle? Shame on you!

Remember Michelle Obama wagged her finger and scolded you not to expect Kamala to “dazzle”? Remember her husband berated Black men for not having Kamala’s back? I’m amazed that didn’t convince you to vote for Kamalove and Kamalot. Haters, all of you.

Of course, I channeled my hatred of women and Jews by voting for Jill Stein. But as a cis white male, nothing better was expected of me; I was always a lost cause. And by voting for Jill Stein, a Jewish woman dedicated to peace and against genocide in Gaza, I was obviously really voting not for Stein but for Trump. Duh.

I’m deplorable. I’m garbage. I’m a bad person. The only good people are those who voted for Kamala. End of story.

One thing is certain: It can’t be the candidate. It’s not her fault that she couldn’t inspire more voters to cast their ballots for her. It’s not her fault that she embraced the Cheneys. It’s not her fault she touted the “lethal” U.S. military and supported Israel and its genocide in Gaza. It’s not her fault that her track record in 2020 for winning support at the national level was abysmal. It’s not her fault she lost all seven battleground states despite more than a billion dollars spent on her campaign. It’s not her fault—it’s your fault. She didn’t deserve to be repudiated by voters—and you’re going to deserve your fate under Trump since you rejected her.

Some of you still want a populist like Bernie Sanders, don’t you? Sorry, that’s never going to happen. We the DNC would rather lose with a Cheney-endorsed neocon genocide-enabler like Harris than win with a principled populist like Sanders. Not just in 2016, not just in 2024, but in 2028 and all future elections.

Either you vote for the DNC Republican we give you or you get the RNC Republican we all deplore. Got a problem with that? Have you thought about leaving the country?

Addendum: If Democrats truly believe democracy dies in darkness under Trump, was a mediocre vice president with less-than-stellar political and speaking skills the best person to challenge him? If Trump=fascism, was anointing Kamala as the candidate without primaries the best way to demonstrate Democrats’ commitment to a fair process open to everyone within the party? Are voters really to blame when you give them no choice, no say, and no real power?

3 thoughts on “Blaming the Voters”

  1. Thank you for this – you have, once again, provided a succinct commentary and I must say that I’ve got more than one family member I’m going to pass this on to, someone who needs to see what happened through the sarcasm and tongue in cheek presentation — we might even have a 1/2 peaceful Thanksgiving this year –

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  2. 100% on point! This was just another, different variation of the Dem Party’s 4-step bait-n-switch routine: 1) get the base enthusiastic for a transformational candidate (in this case, out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new); 2) instead swap in a party-elite approved establishment stooge; 3) play the “You’ve gotta vote for the lesser-of-two-evils, right?” card; and 4) attempt to push the candidate over the finish line on the strength of narrative and ad budget alone. (Then of course blame the voters if the scheme didn’t work.)

    If you want to win, at least start with a great candidate first.

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  3. Some thoughts I want to add:

    1. I’ve met well-off second- and third-generation immigrants who internalized their votes for Harris in a particular way — they reasoned that she would’ve had only gone hard against the poor and paperless refuges, not they who had been completely absorbed into the suburbs. That is the very definition of the “Fuck you, got mine” mindset and entitled voting.

    2. Many ride-or-die Kamala people are saying that they’d be glad if all the Latinos who voted for Trump are deported by him, never mind that the majority of Latinos voters voted for Kamala. When someone else point out their hypocrisy and racism, these blue MAGA then say that: “All voters should take responsibility for their votes.” So shouldn’t Biden voters (and Kamala voters by extension) “take responsibility” for their politicians’ many failures, the most recent one being the terrible response to Hurricane Helen and Milton?

    3. Another thing the K-hive people like to say that they’d be glad if Trump just give Netanyahu the green light to wipe Gaza completely of the map. The Biden administration is doing just that. Furthermore, Kamala supporters say that under her there would’ve had been a “slim” chance for the US to retract its support for Israel, while there is none under Trump. They are literary covering their asses and obfuscate the fact that both Kamala and Trump are all in on Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

    You know the old saying: “Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.” This election has vindicated that sentence a hundred times over.

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