Manopolus
Metaphorical Anomaly
Correction: Harris lost more because the press couldn't mention her without emphasizing her race and sex to such a degree that anybody not rooting for her on demographics alone found it a bit unseemly.
Basically, this type of identity politics doesn't work as your flagship argument. Hillary proved it.
Nor have we had a black president that was elected because he was black. Obama was often criticized for "acting too white" by the same people who respond to this sort of thing.
I know it wasn't entirely Harris's fault... she wasn't in control of framing that happened mostly outside of her actual campaign. Her personal demographics literally needed to be downplayed, not emphasized, to work. Her race and gender are not valid qualifications for the office. It also might have been nice to hear her campaign explicitly mention that (like Obama did). I dunno... she might have even done so at some point, but I sure never heard it, and I was likely paying more attention than most.
The presidency is not and will never be a DEI position. And please note: this is coming from someone that votes Dem every time. Don't bite back like you think I'm a Trump cultist. I'm absolutely fine with a president who is any color on the planet and don't care what their genitals look like. But being different to former presidents in this regard is not a qualification for office.
You want a black, Indian female as president? Stop rubbing our faces in her demographics and move on to actual relevant topics, and it can happen. Until we can do that, it won't. Would you apply for a job and emphasize your race as your highest qualification? No. Nobody with any sense would do that, certainly including white people.
She lost because the framing in this campaign was awful... mostly because of people prone to making the same damn mistake you just did. You are sabotaging your own cause, and no amount of brainlessly doubling down will ever get your point across. No amount of being pointlessly outraged is going to change anybody's mind. To change anything, you need to either be diplomatic or have some kind of authority... or at the very least a proposed solution. What you did there possesses none of those things. It's just pointless whining and a vague accusation that points nowhere specific enough to even properly identify a culprit.
...and it only gets you sympathy if you're preaching to the choir. Sometimes not even then. It depends upon whether your specific "choir" is experienced enough to know better.
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