What I think is funny is that people paint Harris as this progressive leftist when she has never been a standard-bearer for the progressive coalition. Yeah she’s voted with Sanders a bunch but keep in mind she wasn’t really in the US Senate all that long.
Some of us liked Bernie, some of us liked Warren, and some liked Buttigieg. I didn’t hear one progressive talk about Harris.
And that’s okay. My point is just to say that these claims she’s a radical leftist and needed a moderate Dem to balance the ticket are just absurd.
Yeah, I put her in the normie Democrat lane that wants nice stuff, but wants it means tested, and wait, maybe that’s too much too soon, what if it was a voluntary program funded by local businesses? The type that would say universal healthcare should be a right, but then someone asks “how do you pay for it?” and their response is “oh yeah, damn, let’s give people a $20 health tax credit if they’re in the bottom 20% of incomes”.
I don’t find normie Democrats offensive like centrists lusting after bipartisanship and winning over the right. I think they can be encouraged, with a lot of work and the correct white papers and pre-polled assurances of 70% support, to cast aside their fears and do good things. But they’re not progressive.
What I think is funny is that people paint Harris as this progressive leftist when she has never been a standard-bearer for the progressive coalition. Yeah she’s voted with Sanders a bunch but keep in mind she wasn’t really in the US Senate all that long.
Some of us liked Bernie, some of us liked Warren, and some liked Buttigieg. I didn’t hear one progressive talk about Harris.
And that’s okay. My point is just to say that these claims she’s a radical leftist and needed a moderate Dem to balance the ticket are just absurd.
Yeah, I put her in the normie Democrat lane that wants nice stuff, but wants it means tested, and wait, maybe that’s too much too soon, what if it was a voluntary program funded by local businesses? The type that would say universal healthcare should be a right, but then someone asks “how do you pay for it?” and their response is “oh yeah, damn, let’s give people a $20 health tax credit if they’re in the bottom 20% of incomes”.
I don’t find normie Democrats offensive like centrists lusting after bipartisanship and winning over the right. I think they can be encouraged, with a lot of work and the correct white papers and pre-polled assurances of 70% support, to cast aside their fears and do good things. But they’re not progressive.