Chronologically Challenged Voters

Now that the election is over. There are a number of people who are deeply disturbed by the outcome. To a lot of those people, the America they woke up to on Wednesday morning is deeply racist and misogynist.

Now, in the aftermath, there were a lot of opinions as to why Harris lost and most of them were based on race and gender rather than policy. The first group was men. Men as a group are racist and highly misogynistic and would rather vote for a convicted rapist than a woman. The next group were white women. Black women and Hispanic women came out and voted along gender lines but for whatever reason, white women didn't show up in big enough numbers. Those women must have internalized misogyny, I sure most of them probably don't even realize it. They deserve our sympathy.

Most voters claimed that the economy and immigration were the key issues in this election, but the explanation that Kamala Harris didn't really make those people feel comfortable enough with her policies on those issues, absolutely cannot be the reason why she lost. The reason is because our country which was founded by white European men, is both racist and sexist. It's the only explanation that makes sense to these people.

While all of the above explanations could be the reason, there is one other idea that is floating around that is really interesting.

Even though Donald Trump won the popular vote, he ended up getting about 3 million less votes in 2024 than he did in 2020. Kamala on the other hand, got 20 million less votes in 2024 than Joe Biden did in 2020. So, the question that a lot of people are asking is, "Where did those 20 million votes go?!" They didn't go to Trump, and they didn't go to any of the minor party candidates. Didn't those people know that this election is the most important election of our lifetime? (apparently not) Do they not think Trump is as evil now as he was in 2020? (again no) Are those people so lazy that they can't be bothered to vote this time? (maybe) Did twenty million people just suddenly not care about democracy? (I suppose it's possible) It's like those votes just VANISHED into thin air! It's almost like those votes never existed in the first place.

You might think at this point I'm going to go to some conspiracy theory to explain the discrepancy, but I'm not. The truth is a lot more disturbing. Jon Stewert of the Daily Show went on the streets of New York the day after the election and asked people if they were going to vote today, many people said that they were and all of them had no idea that the election was over! So, I'm thinking those 20 million people stayed home because they didn't know there was an election on Tuesday! Kamala didn't do enough to get the chronologically challenged voters out to the polls, and it cost her the election!