In your opinion, what are the biggest reasons Democrats lost the election?

[Anonymous]

In talking with people who Voted for Trump, and a lot who voted Democrat in 2020, it seems these were the biggest reasons:

1) Immigration - even Hispanic Americans were pissed off about it. Americans are sick of our southern border being an open door, allowing drugs to flow in and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.

2) Wokeness - the elephant in the room. Democrats care more about a small faction of Americans than the average person. There has been a growing backlash to wokeism for a while now, but it really took off this year, and especially after the election. Democrats are going to have to either change their stance on this like trans men in women's sports, or they lose again in 2028.

3) Men - Democrats don't support men, at all, and men, especially young ones, feel betrayed by the Democrat party.

4) Harris - she was truly one of the worst candidates imaginable. I wasn't surprised the Democrats fired Biden, but I was shocked when they threw their support behind Harris. She has been an unmitigated disaster for the last 4 years, and was failure in her run for president in 2020. The only reasons she was selected as Biden's running mate were her gender and skin color, which is pure sexism and racism. What made Democrats think the majority of Americans would be okay with that.

5) Inflation. Not much needs to be said about that.

6) Wars. We've seen over the last 4 years what happens when America has a weak administration.

What are your thoughts?

[AviatorTom]

Kamala Harris didn't demonstrate that she was qualified to be Presudent. When asked a difficult question, she almost always laughed and changed the subject. When asked once about her economic policy, she told people to read that on the website.

Also, the Democrats as a whole didn't realize that knocking on doors, what they called the ground game, is the way to get votes today. The Republicans dud a much better job of using online resources, which is what most people use today.

[AviatorTom]

Thanks for MHO

[QuietRunner]

All valid points.

I would add the Elitist attitude. The I'm smarter than you doesn't work. Democrats act like a ruling class, instead of enablers for Americans to live their best lives.

We can disagree and comprise on how Americans need to be enabled to live to our full potential, but the I know what you need attitude doesn't work.

[mandyfire98]

So if democrats don't respect men at all and Republicans absolutely don't respect women or their rights at all, should their be a third party that actually believes that men and women should be treated as equals in this country? That men and women should have equal power and equal rights? If the division is that bad?

[Asker]

What rights do men have that women don't? And how would you propose women should be given more power?

[mandyfire98]

Well a good direction would be not treating women like we are solely here to be only support for husbands and stay at home baby factories. Let's not pretend your Vice President elect wasn't calling women without children crazy cat ladies. Like him and Elon isn't pushing for women to stay at home and push out babies left and right. Both have mentioned it. Let's not pretend that not only is abortion rights under attack but so is stuff like IVF birth and even contraception as a whole. Why is that? What is the purpose of doing away with birth control? Gee... I wonder.

[mandyfire98]

By the way, why anonymous? 😂

[exitseven]

Nobody wanted anything to do with the failed policies of the last 4 years. every time you went to the supermarket you got your nose rubbed in it.

[Anonymous]

They basically ignore the issues like immigration, inflation, wages, employment for four years and then tried to tell the public how much better they were during Biden's term but folks weren't buying it.

Then of course there was the 180° turn they made on policies four months before the election. You had democrat candidates for the senate and Congress running campaign ads for strong boarder control, strong immigration laws, no woke policies, jobs etc, more MAGA than Trump almost. Of course folks didn't buy it.

[Asker]

Yep, they were as transparent as glass. Americans had had enough of that.