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In reply to the discussion: Someone's Presidential Aspirations are Severely Damaged [View all]Sympthsical
(10,846 posts)And because she hi to the bad man, shes a non-starter?
This is why we fail.
I thought 2024 would teach us we have to stop prioritizing the performative over everything else. (Where the theme was joy for some reason. What in the Oprah was going on over there . . .)
But alas. People want to double down on it, I guess. Were just not going to learn, are we? Our politics are being run by social media performance culture and it kills us. Because the average voter doesnt live on cable news and Blue Sky all day everyday.
Prioritizing that shallow sensibility is a turn off to everyone except the people who already live there.
We are willing to throw capable people with proven track records off a cliff because theyre giving the internet a sad.
It would be ridiculous if it wasnt so simultaneously devastating to our cause.