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This November is extra weird. Without a shred of self-awareness, a lot of people are about to go from:
* Getting on social media to blame Black men for Trump winning the election
* Going home to eat Thanksgiving dinner with their family, most of whom are Trump voters
* Getting back online to despair about "Whatever shall we do now?" And "Something must be done!" And "Why did men do this to us?" And "Why didn't Black women save us?" And "What's up with Latino men?"
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@mekkaokereke it is interesting that Trump got the same amount of votes as in 2020. So apparently 13 million people who voted for Biden couldn't be bothered to vote for Kamala.
It's not that they couldn't be bothered. This was an intentional act by people who were sick of everyone else being safe from fascism except for them. They bound their fate with the fate of everyone else. This was an incredibly suicidal act. But it was not apathy, or made with a lack of understanding of what it means.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113442622342979916
I've been trying to warn people for over a year that the people saying "We will not vote for Biden ever again" were serious.
@mekkaokereke we're talking about 13 million people. While that will certainly apply to some of them, I find it a bit of a stretch to claim to know the motivation of all of them. But I won't dwell on this for longer as it is impossible to prove either of our assumptions.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioJust speaking for the Black voter portion of the drop off: There were literally surveys.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113446192875604328
And Black folk, especially Black men 
have been *extremely* vocal online about exactly why they are upset at Biden. If you're in any spaces where Black US people talk to each other online, you would've seen about 70% of us, trying to convince about 20% of us, not to sit out in protest. (10% are legit Trump voters. No point trying to swing them
).
A lot of my life these days consists of...
telling white folk:
"Yes, I'm serious. Black men really were this upset at Biden. That many Black folk really did sit out in protest. Harris did win most back, then lost some again right before November."
And telling Black men:
"Yes, I'm serious. Most white folk really do have no clue how disappointed you were with Biden, or why. They genuinely had no clue that you really would sit out. They still don't know. They don't see you."
@mekkaokereke I don't live there.
@mekkaokereke that is interesting indeed. But they wouldn't be voting for Biden, they would be voting for Kamala. Did they see her simply as an extension of Biden?
At first no, which is why she was so effective at winning back the disaffected voters.
But then in late October, she pivoted strategies, and started using the exact same Biden talking points that made those Black voters think that they would be thrown under the bus again. It was a complete self own.
In early October, her Black voter support was at close to 2020 levels. By November, she'd dropped back again.
This is where it started to unravel:
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113439168205113392
@mekkaokereke you're probably right, it makes sense at least. Assuming that every black man reads each and every word she says as you did, that is.
But I've seen people argue that it didn't really matter what Kamala did. Apparently there is no historic precedent of an incumbent winning with the approval stats that Biden's administration had. But every error counts, so the kind of things you were raising certainly didn't help.