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Kamala Harris was great in the debate. Will that be enough to win? by Bernie Sanders
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Not gonna copy all his suggestions but click the link and find out.
I've been saying the same thing for a while now though.
Everyone knows what trump would mean. It doesn't need to be the only thing Kamala talks about
We all know she's not trump, she needs to start giving voters substantial policy that voters want and the country desperately needs.
But her corporate donors might get upset!!! /s
Better to let the media have the horse race it wants and cater to the non-existent "center." /s
The Democrats have learned fuck-all in 30 fucking years except who butters their bread.
Newt Gingrich was cheating on his wife with cancer while pushing investigations into Clinton for a blowjob (because all their other investigations turned up fuck-all so they had to try to catch him in a lie so they could say "see, he'll lie on the stand, you can't trust his word."). The fact that they've spent 30 years "reaching across the aisle" and learning nothing says everything.
I think America has been in a deep moral crisis since it's inception; should we be evil, or just a little evil. It's easy to get people to agree to just a wee bit of more evil and here we are 200 years later with the magic of compound interest.
Considering the entire 200+ years, the US is considerably less evil. Is there room for improvement? Yes.
Definitely less evil, towards Americans. But they've made vast strides in outsourcing evil through globalization and the military industrial complex.
I suppose the tricky part is to craft policy positions in such a way that you don't alienate former GOP who were okay with Biden. I recall that when Biden won, a lot of folks voted an otherwise straight GOP ticket but Biden-Harris for president.
I suspect that's what it takes to ahead again.
Meanwhile, it's easier to risk alienating the base for Harris, since those folks def won't go to the other guy.
I like Sanders and I like the ideas in his post, but I'm hopeful that if Harris wins this year, the other guy won't be able to get nominated in 2028 (too old, twice failed, etc) and that will lead to a more normal election cycle. At which point, some of these ideas start looking better.
Of course, if Harris wins, Dems keep the Senate, and take the House, then there's the other option - (temporarily) drop the filibuster (setting the threshold to a bare majority) and then enacting the 127 DC states plan: https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-democracy-pack-the-union-harvard-law-review