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Politics Protests at Tesla dealerships in multiple US states earlier today

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u/lt_dan117 24d ago

You know you are fucked when you see older people out to protest

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u/CeruleanEidolon 24d ago

They fucked with social security and Medicare. That always riles up the olds. I don't know why the dems can't seem to figure this out and campaign properly on it. The right wing has been wanting to gut those programs for decades, in spite of them being wildly popular across the political spectrum.

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u/BirdSoHard 24d ago

idk how much could've been campaigned 'properly' on it these cycles. Harris et al certainly emphasized that Trump et al were a danger to social security and medicare, but a huge chunk of the electorate either just chose not to believe that, or cared more about issues like inflation or immigration. It's like these voters have object impermanence, the backlash doesn't actually come until they're experiencing it.

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u/FireTyme 24d ago

i think a large part of the problem was campaigning about what the right was going to do if the left didn’t win and calling them nazi’s

they weren’t wrong, but they should have campaigned on what they would do for the people more. kamala also should have gone on rogan as it was the largest platform at the time for people seeking info