- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.
The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home state), Nikki Haley, and Representative Nancy Mace (South Carolina) quickly pounced, framing the request as socialism and an act of war on women in menopause (the Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health).
Of course, this is pretty standard advice during a heatwave. It was the official stance of the Department of Energy that Americans should set their thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees, and Republican governors in deep red states like Texas have issued the same advice in the past — including current governor Greg Abbott.
“Non-voters” didn’t lose the election. Democrats lost the election. Democrats failed to draw voters that voted for fucking Joe Biden, because Harris went further right than Joe Fucking Biden. In a competition against Donald Trump.
Democrats that voted for Biden, did not vote for Harris. That is the sole reason Harris lost. Not the third party voters. Not these made up non-voters. You. Your party. People that voted for your candidate before did not this time. They believed that Biden 2020 was not better than Trump 2016 and decided Harris, running on Biden’s platform, would not do better than either because of her campaign.
Harris lost voters that were guaranteed. It does not matter who else did what. Harris is responsible for losing the democrat voters that voted for Biden. You are arguing with your own party and your own voters, and you do not have the majority view.
No we lost the election because Trump won and we are all fucked over by that choice because it was a much worse choice than the only other viable choice at the time. I’m not a Democrat, I’d prefer a much more progressive government. But given one of the other it was fucking crazy not to do everything possible to avoid Trump.