Sen. Bernie Sanders says he considers Harris ‘progressive’ and her policy changes are ‘pragmatic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders says he considers Harris ‘progressive’ and her policy changes are ‘pragmatic’
In an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press," Sen. Bernie Sanders said that Vice President Kamala Harris' changing views are part of "doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election."
Progressive-ish at the very least. I think Dems know the jig is up on all the neoliberal bullcrap particularly housing/immigration/not codifying abortion. Thing that have been the RealPolitik bipartisan status quo since forever.
All the gentlemen's agreements need to go and be replaced with hard and fast and enforceable deterrants to the would be fuck-arounders that the GOP is and has reasserted itself as.
I consider her sane and rational. Easy choice.
Being "pragmatic" only seems to go in one direction, and it is rightward.
Pragmatic isn't a point on the left-right spectrum.
Strange, is it not, that liberals never consider that sometimes they are the unjust man asking to meet in the middle before they step to the right.
People can't ever look past whatever threat we're facing. If you're always the person compromising, you'll never get to stand for anything. Even a big tent should have limits like Dick Cheney but if you say that someone call it purity test.
She's not progressive. But she's not trump and that's all that matters.
I think Bernie is just being pragmatic. But, that might be giving him too much credit.
I agree she's better than the only viable alternative.
We really need to replace FPtP and the Electoral College. Approval voting is pretty simple, and would improve both the primaries (if kept) and the final.
But wait fox says she is way left of Bernie
For a presidential candidate Harris has a surprising amount of values that resonate. Presidential candidates in the US are never good people but that doesn't mean we should pick the most degenerate weirdo we can find like trump.
Good for Bernie Sanders.
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Why do people on here insist we stop listening to and electing 80 year olds into office, but that view seems to vanish when it comes to Bernie? Seems so hypocritical.
I want all these old fucks out, including him.
Bernie has been pretty consistently progressive throughout his whole career, unlike almost any other politician. He stayed true to his convictions, and his opinions were so progressive for his time that he was ostracized for them. So his opinions are still held in high regard amongst the younger generations who are more progressive than their parents.
Also, I haven't heard anybody say that we shouldn't listen to older people, just that they shouldn't be running for President. Almost everybody would agree that he is too old to be running for the Presidency now, even most of his supporters, and probably Bernie, himself.
Because the old guys did some messed up shit in the past. Also they barely care for the future and are disconnected from the young.
Bernie has consistently stood on the side of civil rights and good over the course of his life. If I perceive him correctly he also still interacts favorably with young political movements ans opinions.
I mean the whole 1972 rape fantasy essay he wrote was potentially progressive at the the time but feels quite tone-deaf and ham fisted nowadays..
No you don't. Keep Bernie around.
Bernie is literally saying Harris will say anything to win. Just like every other politician, how insightful.
You just drew a circle over everything a politician can do and then declared they're the same for doing whatever was in your circle.
Et tu, Bernie?
A lot of people here seem to live in a Fantasy land where 95% of the US voters are well versed in Marxist ideology and the Republicans and Dems are only in power because all the Progressives are sitting waiting for the perfect candidate to emerge.
I wish I could find out where they get these ideas.
Progressive policies are popular. There's a phenomenon where centrists pretend to be progressive in order to be elected and then do a heel turn.
'Et tu Bernie?' References this. And here I am having to explain very recent history to some lib in defense of some leftist/progressive I've never met because libs can't take any fucking criticism during any fucking time. Maybe stop for a moment and engage some critical thinking. We weren't happy to see biden drop out JUST because he's old. Everyone was hoping for policy change, but that dreams gone, and Trump's up in polls as a result...
Oh my god stop. Can you focus for one fucking second that the point of the upcoming election is to not let the fascists win?