Yes. Voter intimidation, fraud, help from foreign entities, lies, and subterfuge.

I don’t disagree but this conclusion doesn’t seem very actionable. What can be done to solve this problem? Is it more useful to try to equip Americans with a better understanding of these issues or simply navigate around their ignorance better?

American's inability to responsibly inform and engage themselves in our political affairs.

I don't agree, I still put the majority of the blame at the feet of the DNC. They wouldn't run on progressive policies, but also refused to compromise with the electorate on anything.

Almost 66 million people voted for Hillary in 2016. Over 81 million voted for Biden in 2020, the campaign where Biden's team worked with Bernie's team to bring some progressive-policy to his platform. Yes, four years of Trump and the pandemic helped that voter turnout, but I'd argue it was more the progressive platform.

And in 2024, just under 75 million voted for Harris, who ran a centrist, status quo campaign, and thought "We're not Trump" was enough to engage voters. Bernie was right, Americans want change, and being promised nothing more than a continuation of the status quo, people stayed home.

And before anyone says "The voters knew the price and their hubris cost all of us, I hope they're happy!" Why couldn't the DNC compromise? Harris lost Michigan by less numbers than protest voted in the primaries, so why couldn't the DNC change course on Gaza? They were the ones telling us the threat that Trump is, they were the ones urging us to give them money to fight (and as soon as they lost, stopped fighting), they were the ones telling us they know best and that they're going to shift right when we were asking them to move left.

I get it, 77 million people voted for Trump, and that is a problem. But, roughly 90 million Americans didn't vote, so instead of pushing the party right and parading around with Cheney in an attempt to win over Republicans, then demanding our vote anyway (I voted Harris, fyi) because "Trump fascist, Harris not fascist", maybe they could try... Popular, progressive policies that will resonate with all Americans? Policies that may actually make those in the "both sides are the same" camp to say, "Y'know what, they're actually not the same!"

It's a crazy thought, but it could work.

Idiots inhale lies like they're free ice cream and can never be dissuaded from believing in the most insane horseshit.

The only thing that can change in this equation is the Democrats. A third party won’t happen. Republicans won’t change because they’re winning.

So unless the Democrats figure out how to jangle keys in front of people to get them to pay attention long enough to vote we’re fucked.

Agreed. People keep blaming Democrats and Kamala and Biden for all kinds of things, but they are up against a tidal wave of bullshit and dark money and foreign interference.

Yes, we had inflation, but there were all kinds of indicators that things were going well as far as the economy. But if the "liberal media" keeps saying how absolutely terrible everything is, some people fall for that. And they sure did a lot of that, probably to be "objective" and report "both sides", but really to run their horse race, and, most likely, do everything possible to tip things in favor of the qons.

Talk to an average American. They’re clueless.

You're blaming the victims when you should be blaming the indoctrination system, capitalist media, nationalist ideology, etc. These people (including myself) are literally born into a brainwashed cult. Blaming them only reinforces it. We need to break them out of it instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

He's not just trash, he's a degenerate gambler who doesn't even understand gambling as well as he thinks he does.

What image?

pretty sure no one here cares about that image but you. Are you crowdsourcing meaningless copyright enforcement? Why are you wasting everyones time with this?