Surely you can link some of those comments on Lemmy?
I can’t find specific comments I’ve made in the past, but I know I made them. I admit I believed there was no way there could be such a rapid acceptance of Kamala as the candidate with how late in the election cycle we were.
My main priority then (as it is now) was just keeping Trump out of the white house, and I thought dropping the incumbent from the ticket after primaries were already done would jeopardize that. Happy to be wrong.
I don’t feel like digging through my own comment history for examples, but I can assure you I made MANY such comments, and I was not alone in making them.
I did as well, and am very happy to be wrong.
And it seems like Harris’ campaign saw those kinds of comments and chose to address them with energy and humor.
They’ve done a great job so far. Hoping they can keep this amazing momentum and prove me thoroughly wrong on election day.
To be fair this was kind of a new phenomenon, and nobody knew what would happen if Biden dropped out like that. I’m sure you were hoping to avoid a power struggle that just didn’t materialize. Plus a lot of the suggestions were kind of out there and not well known, so I can see why it would make sense to stick with Biden.
Though I’m really glad you were wrong.
Yeah, honestly, I was dreading a whole avalanche of consequences that just… didn’t materialize. Even when I finally came around to Biden dropping out, I was certain that we were going to end up with a very brutal “DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY” narrative from the media in addition to whatever ugliness emerged from figuring out who the candidate was without a new primary. And yet when it happened, it was almost… subdued. And the Trump campaign absolutely floundered on it.
Wasn’t hyped for Harris either, but Walz was a damn good VP pick, so I’m actually feeling almost positive. Almost. I mean, at the end of the day we shouldn’t be dealing with fighting this fascist shite in a fair and just world, but we deal with the hand we have, not the one we want.
I don’t think I made such comments but I sure as hell voted that way.
It’s good to be proven wrong when the outcome is this positive.
Hopefully you can take a second, if not a couple hours, to reflect on what you can learn about the experience. A lot of other people didn’t make the same mistake, for lack of a better word, and were communicating their ideas the whole time.
For example, I try to pay attention to which pundits or networks are wrong and then never fully trust them again, or at least treat them with a high amount of skepticism. In contrast, people that are right on big, important issues I try to pay more attention to
Edit: I think I should’ve said we, as I’m absolutely doing this myself
I personally didn’t think it was a great idea to attack him a la Bernie v Hilary, since we have to ultimately vote for him, which is where I think most of his defense comes from, but I also didn’t agree with denying reality and pretending we were going to win by just ignoring reality harder than the other side.
I mainly want to try and understand why I was hesitant at all and not fully onboard with the brave people that convinced enough people in power to force him to step down. It at least makes me wonder what else I’m believing that isn’t true
