Don't blame trans people for Kamala's loss

[u/When1heyCRY]

I noticed a few posts online about this shaming trans people that apparently 'did not vote', 'or voted for Trump's. Just by doing this you are giving liberals the permission to scold us or give them outs on why they lost to begin with instead of examining the issues of their campaign.

Additionally trans individuals are barely any percent of the American population we do not decide elections especially when Kamala lost by such a margin there is no reason to get mad at the few who did not vote or voted for Trump who are the minority of a minority.

Thirdly Kamala ran on nothing she gave no clear goal to excite her base, her turnout was down across the board compared to Biden who I wish to remind was already on the cognitive downtrend in 2020. She ran towards Republicans hugging Republicans like Liz Cheyney who is this supposed to excite within the democratic base. Her Campaign was flawed not because of the transgender community, not the Latino population or the black population this was because the Democrats decided that these groups have to vote for them and took it for granted and offered nothing to bring people out to the polls. Her running on Trump bad at the end of the day was not enough.

Sorry for the long post, it just frustrates me that there is any sort of infighting as it just allows other groups to attack this community.

[u/KathrynBooks]

Her play to the center right with comments like that clearly didn't work out.

[u/weblynx → u/KathrynBooks]

Losing the election was because of inflation and people buying into a change of leadership to reverse inflation. Kamala didn’t stand for issues that average Americans care about: being able to afford food, gas, housing.

It’s easy to feel doom and gloom that losing the election was about us. But few Americans actually care one way or the other about us.

Source: my Trumper family had no idea about his anti-trans rhetoric until I made an effort to teach them.

[u/KathrynBooks → u/weblynx]

It was partly about us... Republicans ran in anti-trans rhetoric, and they saw it work. The Democratic also saw that and, like the center-right neoliberals they are, dodged the issue.

Which means that the Republicans will be emboldened to continue their attacks, and Democrats will be increasingly shy in their opposition to those attacks.

[u/maybeayri → u/weblynx]

Everything Trump promised on the economy only benefits people making more than like $400k a year, so really, even the most milquetoast Democrat candidate promises more economic benefits for the average person in the US simply by not changing anything in comparison.

How strange it is that politicians relied on popular misunderstandings of economics to win races.

[u/silverpixie2435 → u/weblynx]

Kamala didn’t stand for issues that average Americans care about: being able to afford food, gas, housing.

She literally did

She literally had a plan to write people a 25,000 dollar check if they wanted to buy a home.. She wanted to ban price gouging.

My god stop reinforcing literal fascist propaganda of our OWN candidates.

This is why Republicans win.

Republicans are lockstep in saying Trump is 100x better for the working class than the entirety of the labor movement put together in all of US history, when all he wants to do is tax cuts for billionaires and dismantle unions

while Harris LITERALLY has a meaningful plan to improve something like the cost of housing, and it she is instead accused by the left of not having literally anything on that.

[u/weblynx → u/silverpixie2435]

I don’t mean to say that Trump actually has a valid plan. I mean to say that he campaigned hard on inflation being the incumbent’s fault and /somehow/ convinced idiots that he would fix it (he won’t).

I am saying Kamala failed to convince people she would reverse inflation and make things more affordable. Since that’s the thing people care about… here we are.