Jay Cavanaugh
1 min readJan 4, 2025

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While I pretty much agree with you, and was also a Harris/Walz voter (Because the other choice was unthinkable) it was clear to me from the beginning that Harris was likely to loose. And recently it's come to light how both Biden and Harris handled their Union support aka Badly and their embrace of people like the daughter of War criminal Dick Cheney and their turning away from any discussion about health care and Palestine that pretty much doomed them. Bernie Sanders is 100% correct, people feel that the Democratic party has failed them (And there is plenty of evidence to support that). Had they come on strong with a working class friendly economic platform, strengthening social security, medicare + medicaid and offered at least some sort of solution to the horrible genocide in Gaza they might have stood a chance. In the end it didn't matter how qualified and well educated Harris was. She was never a strong contender, that was evident in her performance in the primary process before 2020. she dropped out for a good reason. Identity politics was not a winning strategy. I was a firm Warren democrat and can't help but wonder how Warren would have faired against Criminal Donald Trump. If Democrats want to start winning it's time to actually offer real solutions and deliver on them. MAGA is a lost cause, and it's time to stop thinking that campaigning with the likes of Liz Cheney will win over your opponents base.

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Jay Cavanaugh
Jay Cavanaugh

Written by Jay Cavanaugh

I’m a long time NYC musician, bassist, vocalist, song writer who has flirted with acting, performance art, indie film, poetry slams and straight up theater.

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