She’s making the same mistakes Hillary did i.e. ignoring the Democratic base to appeal to moderate Republicans.
@queermunist @chobeat Not sure that’s a big deal in this election, that election she was up against a loud mouthed television star that she didn’t think anyone would elect, this election, we know what’s coming, so you can largely bank on Democrats voting for her.
Pretty core difference that Hilary was a moderate that had to try to win over the left. Harris is a progressive that has to try to win over the middle.
Thinking you can be a progressive that wins on progressivism alone with no coalition building or winning over anyone else only gets you the percentage of total American voters that are progressive, and is a recipe for defeat. There just aren’t enough of us that ascribe to the whole platform.
Harris is a progressive that has to try to win over the middle.
Harris is a moderate Liberal, not a progressive. She’s not winning over leftists, but she is trying to appeal to the less fascist republicans.
Harris would be center-right in any other developed country, but in the US, any position left of hunting the homeless for sport is immediately decried as communism, so there’s the internal impression that in comparison to the ultra-extremists that make up the right, she is - relatively speaking - progressive.
According to her senate voting record she is quite progressive. You have to go by voting record, you can’t use rhetoric.
I agree she’s trying to pull some of the non-maga repubs though.
What do you mean by “progressive?”
Reformist dems. Voting rights protections, higher taxes, higher business regulation, more public services, environmental action, criminal justice reform, minority protections. For starters.
Reformist dems. Voting rights protections, higher taxes, higher business regulation, more public services, environmental action, criminal justice reform, minority protections. For starters.
Oh, you mean a centrist
No, the centrists are the neolibs. Lower taxes, light on regulation. Generally little criminal justice reform or environmental action. To the right of the centrists are the conservatives, against almost all regulation, criminal justice reform and minority protections. To the right of the conservatives are the fascists, be a christian or gtfo. Rolling back a lot of freedoms.
To the left of the centrists are the progressives, also often known as social democrats, who want highly regulated capitalism and a democratic society. To the left of them are communists, who want full egalitarianism.
In America anyway. Harris being an American presidential candidate, using the American scale seems appropriate.
Like, can you give an example? Additionally, these are all moderate liberal platforms.
Sure. Here’s a list of some of the bills she introduced to congress when she was in:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678
Personally though I’m fond of her Back On Track program from back when she was AG if I remember right, where nonviolent offenders could get out of jail time and get their records expunged if they enrolled in education or got a job.
And yea we could quibble on what “progressive” means if we wanted, but we risk just getting into no true scottsman stuff. In my view, people that want to improve the existing system with steady movement forward qualify as progressive. This is in opposition to the neolib dem faction that does not want to progress forward, and instead just wants to keep to the Bill Clinton direction of the party.
Of course she may lose, but articles like this are useless. Would be nice if people who claim to want her elected would stop doing Republicans work for them.
She has numerous policies, some of which are:
- Working to stop companies from price gouging.
- Working on a cease fire in the Middle East.
- Increasing the child tax credit for new parents
- Bringing back first time homebuyer’s tax credit.
- Returning to a higher corporate tax rate.
- Working to get prescriptions much more affordable for everyone.
- Working to get abortion rights codified in law.
And people seem to have a very short memory about how they tackled COVID (which of course is still around, but is far less dangerous now than it once was), inflation, and jobs.
I sure wish people would stop acting like she has no policy ideas and plans when she has explained many of them, multiple times.
All it requires is listening. And therein lies the problem.
But yeah, let’s write up an article that is effectively Fox News propaganda and act like it’s not.
A key mistake that the Clinton campaign made, was ignoring the Midwest because they thought they had it in the bag. The Harris campaign is not repeating that mistake. One could argue that was one of the largest contributors to the loss.
What the CDC kept trying to wish away as merely a “summer surge” is now a full-on wave, because COVID never went away…
The People’s CDC…
The People’s CDC is a CDC watchdog, and a public health advocacy and health justice group. Structured as a coalition of volunteer-run cooperative teams, we work to end the COVID pandemic for everyone, to expand the social safety net, and to build the robust public health infrastructure we all deserve.
Huh, TIL
