You are describing an idiot who has yet to grow up, because the left you are talking about isn't representative of the left to begin with. When a young guy spends all his time on the internet and stumbles into the bubble of far-left activists and their garbage, then I can see why he would think that way. But even then, he should be smart enough to bother to listen what politicians on the left say and do, that way he would realize that the far-left is a small movement on the fringe that merely seems to be much bigger than it really is because of how obnoxious they are by screaming on the internet.

When you look at the population on the whole, you won't find more than 1% being on the woke train - which is what fits the description you laid out in your second to last paragraph. On the other extreme you have 10-15% of the population who are convinced that they are fighting a culture war and must push back against the wokeness. Meanwhile, everyone who remains is more concerned about actual problems.

There's a reason why study after study finds that people reducing their time on the internet reduces depression and leads to increased happiness. Social media is a plague because it's not properly moderated. What happens to such a place is that the good people leave, so the worst of humanity gets to dominate the platform, be it far-left or far-right bullshit. The problem is that you can't isolate any members of these factions and make them see the light, because only they themselves can make that choice. For that reason, I consider it pointless to cater to such people, because the time is better spent on the majority inbetween who is at least willing to listen to what you have to offer.

Although the problem there is that American campaigns make people numb due to the extremely long duration, so it's difficult to pick out the little pieces of actual information in the avalanche of blown out of proportion filler. So I am not surprised that most Americans don't understand how inflation and tariffs work, because broadcasts that deal with these topics specifically get lost in the shuffle all too easily. It's this ignorance that seemed to have mattered most in this election.

Oh I agree, but that's the thing though, idiots still get to vote. I don't think such people are necessarily beyond saving though; it is possible, albeit difficult, to de-radicalize folks. Plenty of people for example have been rehabilitated from being in cults and the like. 

And yeah, as an outsider myself the American election process does seem somewhat absurd to me too; the length of the process, weird shit like the Electoral College. System needs an overhaul but I expect that's very hard to achieve.

When you do eat your pants, put a video of it on YouTube.

I said as much, people can get out if they make that choice themselves.

Changing the constitution requires two-third majorities in both chambers of congress as far as I know. But under the current constitution, such majorities are practically impossible to achieve for either party alone, plus there's no bi-partisan interest in doing so.

The American electoral system is the most sophisticated system that civilized men could ever come up with.

As far as the results of this election, I am delighted. Trump will greatly improve the unacceptable situation in our southern border, he will put an end to the madness going on between Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East will quiet down, the USA will be feared again, he will facilitate the energy production in the US (oil and gas), he will tackle our inflation problem by reducing government wasteful spending, he will try to pass tax cuts for people who actually get hurt by it the most (no taxes on tips and overtime is a great idea) and most importantly, he will not use any government fascist institutions to try to take away my bitcoin.

Obs: If you know where to keep your bitcoin it is impossible for anyone to seize it, but governments will try. Trump said it clearly that he is 100 percent for self custody. The bitcoin president

Anyway. The future of these great United States 🇺🇸 is looking great right now. Sorry haters. Not sorry.

There's no way to sugarcoat it, this is a resounding rejection of the Democrat platform.

It isn't clear to me that policies are the issue and reason why Democrats lost. For the following reasons: 

1. When doing blind studies Americans preferred Harris's policies. 

2. In certain states, like Colorado, where the same or even more left-wing policies were messaged differently (framed as saving Americans money overall) Democrats over-performed. 

3. We are seeing an anti-incumbency wave globally caused by inflation. Democrats were fighting an up-hill battle to win this election, being the incumbent party. They actually fared better than other incumbent parties globally, containing a lot of their losses. We already know that many working class people voted only on the presidential ticket for Trump for this single reason. That's why Democrats did relatively better in some of the down-ballot races than they did for the presidential election. See: Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and maybe even Pennsylvania (depending on how the last few counts and recount goes.) 

4. In many states that rejected Democrats, progressive referendum showed majority support for their policies. For example, in Missouri a minimum wage of 15 dollars and an abortion protection amendment passed. In Florida a majority voted to legalize recreational marijuana and for a pro-abortion amendment, it didn't pass because the state requires 60% of the vote and the votes were in the low and high 50% respectively. In Arizona a pro-abortion amendment passed. 

5. This election wasn't even about policy. Mid-term elections are the policy elections and Democrats have been doing much better in those lately. Neither candidate really talked too much about their policies, and the popular ones were adopted by both. 

Trump probably won this election for three main reasons: 1. inflation and the anti-incumbency wave across the globe caused by it, 2. he is charismatic and does better than the average GOP, people like his authoritarian brashness and anti-establishment pose, and 3. Harris focused too much on trying to secure the vote of a group that doesn't exist anymore (Bush Republicans/Neocons) rather than activating her base. 

She didn't lose because she is a woman or because she is a person of color either. Many women and people of color in the swing states out-performed her. Yes that is another thing that limits her ability to gather votes, but if #1, #2, and #3 didn't exist she probably would have won despite this. 

Edit: Also, Biden shouldn't have run in the first place. He ran in 2020 on being a one-term president and should have stuck with that. There should have been a primary last year. 

Minorities win mayoral elections often enough, yet we've only had one as president. Obama galvanized a huge sector of typically nonvoting minorities to show up in droves that H. Clinton and Harris could not. Bible thumpers are more comfortable with a black man in office than a woman or a gay man. I agree that Pete got that rizz though.