I wish her the best of luck.
I still expect Harris 2028 because “it’s her turn”
But hey, maybe there’s hope on the horizon
Dem leadership is positioning themselves behind Gavin Newsom. They should be backing AOC but she's too "woke" in their eyes.
Exactly. The leadership has already picked Newsom, you can tell because he is already moving to the center.
Harris lacks a key, critical asset to win the Presidency in today's America: a penis. Newsom already has one, so is any a clear advantage.
Harris's issue was she kept telling people who can't afford their rent and groceries that the economy is better than ever. She ran a dog shit centrist campaign that did nothing to motivate voters. Harris represented the status quo, same with Newsom. Both will get absolutely shredded in 2028 if they run.
Courting a fucking Cheny didn't help matters
This
Let's totally ignore that Hillary got the popular vote the first time and if the US didn't have the E.C. than history would've been quite different.
None of this is relevant. Neither party wants to change the voting system so only winning the popular vote is matters
According to the two books written about Biden's mental decline, one of the main defenses people close to the president used was, "If he drops out, you get Harris, and then we'll lose for sure." I'm sure they'll pick some low talent party loyalist who has been waiting patiently, but it seems even the party leadership never wanted it to be her turn.
There’s no way they’ll run Harris again, if they do the backlash will cause them to change course.
AOC most likely, with the slim chance someone better steps up before then.
No chance of AOC because she’s vilified by the right and it’s important to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you.
They don’t have anything though and she can handle herself. Calling someone a bartender can only get you so far and all it does is humanise her anyway.
Her views are significantly more popular, even amongst people who don’t (usually) vote and the right (when they don’t know it’s a liberal proposing it).
The right vilifies every prominent Democrat.
The real reason is that she will scare the corporate overlords
I think Democrats subservience to wealthy donors is even more our downfall.
Every wealthy donor who doesn't want the government packed full of fascists should be pushing their representatives for significant and meaningful campaign finance reform.
It's too bad that they'd be giving up some of their influence, but at this point, everyone should be able to see that it's becoming a matter of physical safety.
They don't care if fascists are in office. Maybe they will be bummed that their queer assistant gets gulaged, but at the end of the day all the donor class cares about are quarterly income reports.
There’s the targeted message of the month!
ANYONE who says that this is “ageist” should be forced to give up ALL their technology and advancements from the last 150 years and given the consequences for it. Any complaints? We will call you ageist and punish you. Seriously, ANYONE who makes this argument when it comes to politicians is less than useless. They should be mocked and laughed at
Can you explain what you mean by this?
The older I get the more I favor unions because they seem to support the idea of seniority. However, assigning benefits based on seniority doesn't seem like a very effective solution for a well functioning system. Gotta hand it to the Republicans. They ran with a crazy ass fucking disrupter and it's worked for them. Wish the democrats had the balls to roll with Bernie 9 years ago.
Anyone here running for anything?
I've been on a school board, PTSOs, volunteer regularly, coached traveling soccer (it doesn't pay anything) for over a decade. I didn't have enough time to run for any office but i go to every other town board meeting and i show up to school board meetings semi regularly.
I'm a "child of the internet" and would more than likely be the cause of the left and right uniting in their disgust of me for some dumb thing I did/said like 20 years ago lol
Too scatterbrained to be a good public speaker. Helped launch a disability rights org and lobbied government instead (with reports and scathing tweets instead of money). Organised grassroots pressure is surprisingly effective, would recommend.
If you guys really want this revolution you keep talking about, forget the presidency...for now. Social change begins at the bottom. The country has turned too damn far right to make any progress nationally. Focus on city council, planning commissions, especially school and library boards. Change will flow upward storm there.
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