I don't understand why you think a celebrity endorsement would matter-- at all. One endorsement that mattered was Dick Cheney, the man behind the US's illegal

I don't understand why you think a celebrity endorsement would matter-- at all. One endorsement that mattered was Dick Cheney, the man behind the US's illegal and immoral torture campaigns, and who shared responsibility for the US killing of over a million innocent civilians in the US illegal war of aggression against Iraq. Harris welcomed the endorsement and talked up her war hawk credentials. She promised to give even more money to the military (it is a zero sum game-- a contributing factor to why Americans can't have nice things that Europeans enjoy, like medical care). She promised to continue to enable genocide of the indigenous Palestinian population by the Israeli settler state. She is reprehensible. Her center-right to right party attacked left parties, like the Greens (our Green party is anti-war and pro human rights, unlike the European Greens, and is not affiliated with the European Greens). The so-called Democratic party sued to have the Greens removed from the ballot in several states. The Democratic party should be called the anti-democracy party. So, many people on the actual left couldn't hold their noses and vote for her due to POLICIES of her and her party. In states where good candidates like Dr. Jill Stein, or Dr. Cornell West were on the ballot, they may have voted for these, or they may have withheld their votes entirely. This includes a sizable number of young people disgusted by the current administration's complicity in genocide, and the extreme suppression of protest whether they identify as on the left, or not. People where specific policy was not a deciding factor in their votes, may have voted against the Democrats because they, rightly or wrongly, blame the insane increases in costs of living on the party that was in charge when rent/house prices/loan interest rates, food, and energy prices went through the roof. Also, the endorsements of several establishment Republicans for Harris cemented her as the candidate of the establishment. And, the majority of folks in the lower income tiers don't have anything good to say about the establishment that keeps making their lives harder. Trump won decisively in under $100K/yr. earning males. A significant number of people want to see the whole damn corrupt system burn. It is concerning that the far-right controls all federal branches of government. Hopefully there will be in-fighting, so they do not do too much damage. But, realistically, with the ever rightward movement of the Democrats, eventually, we would have reached the same point. On-topic: there are multiple examples of US companies (and a US owned Swiss one too), installing back-doors in equipment, encryption, etc. I don't think the political party controlling the executive branch matters a bit for this.