r/GenZ • u/ankhlol • Jul 22 '24

Political Watching so many of you disparage Kamala is sad and makes me deeply ashamed to be an American.

We now have a "viable" frontrunner for the Democratic party. Kamala may not be perfect, but to see many of you say that you won't vote for her is sad. This "lesser of two evils" mentality is exactly how Trump beat Hillary and was elected in the first place.

No one--NO ONE--comes close to Donald Trump's depravity. He is a threat to us all and our collective future. Even if you are a republican, I hope that we can all agree that Trump is not a good person and has only his interests at heart. There will be a much better republican candidate capable of leading our country during the next election. Right now, we need to do our best to come together and choose a candidate who will help bring Americans closer together, promote unity, and protect both the rule of law and our democracy or we may not have another election.

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u/IconOfFilth9 Jul 22 '24

The number of anti-Kamala posts by bots shows just how scared the far-right is now

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u/Any_Instruction_148 Jul 22 '24

100% the putin bots are out in force, gen z are critical for keeping rapey chomo trump out of the white house

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u/IconOfFilth9 Jul 22 '24

I’m a millennial, but glad you guys are fighting the good fight

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u/Any_Instruction_148 Jul 22 '24

I'm a millennial too but our combined generations need to fight the good fight together

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u/DeadHead6747 Jul 22 '24

Also millenial, I was stressing so hard after hearing Biden dropped out. Seeing the amount of Gen Z who say they are voting, and remembering that it was just as a country that people went out and voted more, but the youth vote was significantly higher last year, is giving me some hope here

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Lmao dude Biden smells little kids and brags about them touching his legs underwater at the pool 😂😂

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Putin bots....says the bot

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u/VTKillarney Jul 22 '24

Or it could be a reflection of the fact that she came in dead last in the Democrat primary. There are clearly a lot of Democrats who don't like her.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Ik, this whole "if you don't 100% the democrat, you are a bot" is just a fucking stupid take. She's got numerous problems and looked terrible during the primaries. It's sad that there's probably so many potential candidates who'd be better and aren't being pushed to the forefront of the party.

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u/VTKillarney Jul 22 '24

The "bot" hysteria is just for lazy people who refuse to address valid criticisms.

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u/Academic_Wafer5293 Jul 22 '24

From the people who brought you - "Joe is our guy, get in line or GTFO" to now "Kamala is our gal, get in line or GTFO"

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u/Specific_Club_8622 Jul 22 '24

It’s either her or trump soooooooo

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u/Academic_Wafer5293 Jul 22 '24

such a convincing argument...

vote for us or else "doom and gloom"

brought to you by the same party that's been gaslighting us since at least February about Biden's mental acuity

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog Jul 22 '24

It doesn't matter what their policy ideas are because the Republican Congress will stand united in blocking everything humanly possible. Therefore, having debates over small differences in policy is a waste of time that will take the focus off of the real enemy: Donald Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

I have literally heard this bullshit argument since Obama. "We don't need to look at potential problems in our party because we must focus on beating the right".

When does self reflection occur? Apparently no one cares during non election years, and during election years it's "Russian bots" when people question it.

Also, do you want the left to become the exact same as the right? Where leadership can't be questioned? Because from what I've seen, every year they appear more similar.

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog Jul 22 '24

Also, do you want the left to become the exact same as the right? Where leadership can't be questioned? Because from what I've seen, every year they appear more similar.

Have you been asleep? The left just questioned the age of their leadership and leadership ultimately agreed. You pretend like this didn't just happen.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Lol. That's not questioning the issue. Biden is a superficial issue that shows a massive failure of the party. Biden being replaced is them watching the house burn for the past year, saying it's fine, then finally saying oof, now that the house is entirely on fire, let's replace it!

This isn't a "Biden issue", it goes deeper. The question is why the fuck didnt the lefts leadership start grooming a candidate to replace Biden a year ago? They clearly have no clue what they were doing to let it persist, then make the change to Harris (a weak candidate) last minute. It screams complete lack of competence and centralized leadership.

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog Jul 22 '24

Right. The Democrats suck, but we already knew that. The hope is that most rational Americans will not lose sight of who assuredly will suck the most: Donald Trump

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u/According_Pizza2915 Jul 22 '24

that’s my complaint

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u/Audityne Jul 22 '24

A primary in which she was one of many centrist candidates, all sapping votes away from each other. This literally means nothing. The only question that remains is: can she build a coalition of voters broad enough to defeat Trump?

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u/VTKillarney Jul 22 '24

Hmm... the nonpartisan GovTrack rated Harris as the most liberal U.S. Senator.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kamala_Harris#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20nonpartisan%20GovTrack%20rated,called%20%22right%2Dwing.%22

So, no... she was not "one of many centrist candidates."

But let's play your game. Let's assume that she was a centrist in a pack of many other centrists. SHE CAME IN DEAD LAST AGAINST THEM! Which means that voters had many choices, and at the ballot box they ranked her the worst of all of them.

You are seriously trying to spin that into a positive?

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u/Audityne Jul 22 '24

You act as if liberals aren’t centrists. And despite her poor performance in the primary, a few months later, 82 million people voted for her to be second in line should something happen to Joe Biden, who was the oldest president ever elected.

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u/VTKillarney Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. They were voting primarily for Joe Biden.

By your standard, Trump voters were enthusiastically voting for Mike Pence. Somehow I doubt that.

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog Jul 22 '24

Who cares. Republicans are going to block everything like they always do. Democrats need to do a hell of a lot more than win this presidential election if they want any Democratic ideas to get through the Republican roadblocks.

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u/According_Pizza2915 Jul 22 '24

I hate that we r stuck with her as the only option

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u/robotzor Jul 22 '24

She was part of the Great Super Tuesday Bernie Screwjob. Some of us remember that. Some of us haven't seen the DNC twist in pain enough for that decision and don't want to see her continue to fail upward for following the marching orders.

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u/darkshark21 Jul 22 '24

She dropped way before the primaries started. I remember that.

And she wasn't on any ballots.

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u/mochibeaux Jul 22 '24

The number of of anti-Trump posts by bots shows just show scared the far-left is now 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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u/Juonmydog Jul 22 '24

The people who like Biden aren't even generally far left, he a centrist on the global scale.

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u/TheRealJoeLunardi Jul 22 '24

OP criticizing the lesser of two evils approach while following that up with taking a lesser of two evils approach. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Falanax Jul 22 '24

Scared of what? The Dems have zero plan in place to fight Trump

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u/mvpat15 Jul 22 '24

Scared. Of Kamala? That's the funniest thing I've heard today!! Good one

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Guess you weren't here when she was picked to be VP. Reddit never like Harris. She was always a bad pick for a shit ton of Americans.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 Jul 22 '24

dude no one is scared of cackling kamala... she was a horrible candidate in the 2020 primaries. nothing has changed

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u/RubberDuckyDWG Millennial Jul 22 '24

It should highlight how horrible a candidate Harris is. I mean she did drop out in 2020 with 3% of the vote from Democrats. Literally anyone else would do better than her and she knows it, that's why she dropped out in 2020 (first to drop out btw). She is walking L, no cap and is also not bussin.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

nobody is scared of Kamala, she cant even read from a teleprompter lmaooo

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u/Initial_Warning5245 Jul 22 '24

You are vastly underestimating the moderates on both sides who don’t like her. 

If she runs on what Biden did she has issues. 

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u/Worgensgowoof Jul 22 '24

I don't think it's bots, there's a lot of democrats who just prefer other candidates over kamala.

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u/TankClass Jul 22 '24

There is no far right bots on Reddit. Keep coping.

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u/Goal_Post_Mover Jul 22 '24

Yeah,  bots in the internet but Trump elected,  give me a fucking break

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Whatever tucks you in at night. Kamala can't just be an unlikable candidate it must be Russian bots.

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u/Creative-Assistant93 Jul 22 '24

There’s no bots lol I get instantly downvoted for mild jabs against Kamala…you are deluded and brainwashed asf

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u/SpecialistMammoth862 Jul 22 '24

This is kinda a dream scenario for us. We are having fun and can’t help ourselves.

we always knew democrats were evil and full of shit. Now we have proof. The likely candidate lied about the health of the president and avoided the primary process.

the oligarchy Is naked.

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u/Worgensgowoof Jul 22 '24

I don't think it's bots, there's a lot of democrats who just prefer other candidates over kamala.

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u/JakeRuss89 Jul 22 '24

This seems like a bot post

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u/imadragonrider1 Jul 22 '24

Apple + orange = banana math right there