Some people think criticizing is the same thing as not supporting.
If you want things to get better, you have to honestly and critically examine your leaders, not blindly support them and pretend they are flawless. Shutting down criticism is short-sighted nonsense and will only lead to worse candidates in the future.
Just a reminder that Harris has a voting record to the left of all Senate Democrats.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2020
I don't know.
I really dislike Harris. She's probably the bottom of my pick list for the nominee and a Dem President.
But it's not like a gaping sore of a liability the way Biden was.
I'm excited the conversation can finally shift to "Trump fell asleep during his own convention? Doesn't he seem tired in his speech?"
I think it being a woman nominee is an interesting newsworthy discussion point at a time when the other party is actively working to harm women - even if she's the last of the many other qualified women I'd rather see in the position.
I don't like her, I don't like listening to her nonsensical off the cuff statements, I thought she did very poorly in the 2020 campaign, I am anxious about a law enforcement politician as President in a system with too much Presidential power over the Justice department.
But in spite of all that, I just don't care enough to push back strongly on her.
She's boring in the neoliberal way we've gotten used to, but she's not addled and she's not a neo-Nazi, and with an interesting VP pick she's a ticket I could potentially even be excited about four months from now instead of watching her be put into a nursing home as the October surprise.
I'd love to see an actual competitive open convention, but barring that I'm just going to accept a turd sandwich that's palatable, as even that seemed like a stretch a week ago, and I'll take what I can get.
I wonder if all those rampant anti Biden astroturfers are going to create new accounts to dump on Harris, or if they'll just continue on.
We’re electing a president, not a monarch. Nobody is above criticism, and there’s a weird segment of people who act like criticism from the left exists only to help the right.
Like, I actually saw someone say we shouldn’t do it because it’s too nuanced for the average voter, and sorry but I don’t do paternalism like that. If reading criticism of how a candidate isn’t far enough left makes you vote further right, that’s a basic political literacy problem.
Another reminder that not everything is black and white to the tribal folk of the USA.
You are allowed to dislike someone on the basis of their character even if they have a certain skin colour, genitalia, or age.
Thus far I've only seen memes over people salty about Biden making the right decision talking about rhetoric switching to Kamala. In fact I've seen several now.
It's like you want something to push back against so bad you need to make it!
Edit:
Yeah I was wrong... Jimmydoreisalefty is spamming anti Kamala memes right when Russia starts their 9-5 shifts like it's his job... Oh wait
"Chuckles" has already come up
Like really?... That's your argument
I mean, right, because I'm not independently wealthy and I have to work for a living.
What'll be even funnier is if they neg her so hard the convention goes for someone like Whitmer or Jayapal
Especially since Trump has been doing the pickme dance for Midwestern votes by going on about how the union's to blame for the jobs going to mexico and also Indian votes by trying to pander to defensiveness about Modi
poisoning the well
Well she did sorta become the Democratic candidate so yeah
It's not like it's hard to be anti-Harris.
Harris is another corporate Democrat that would have to be pushed hard to pursue any kind of (direly needed) progressive reform. And there has to be a reason why in all of her years as VP we haven't heard a single noteworthy statement from her. Seems like she isn't exactly the most charismatic politician ever. That said, she is a better candidate than Biden purely on account of her relative youth and if I were American I would vote for her without a second thought. Although I would much prefer a spirited progressive like AOC.
Yep and they'll have "solid arguments" but zero solutions because they just want to accelerate the destruction of the US. They want people to not vote.
I nominate Danica Roem. She's INCREDIBLE, highly effective, and trans, so she'll have every Republican having the vapours every day 100 times more than Obama did.
Seriously she's awesome.
