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I agree. Which is why I don’t believe the narrative that Harris lost because she didn’t go far enough left. Even though I wish our politicians would. I think too many voters don’t feel the same way.
They were unwilling to go hard attack on the people setting prices.
Biden was calling out price gouging throughout his presidency.
Harris said she would make billionaires pay their fair share and they literally bought votes for Trump.
Scapegoating democrats for going up against the billionaire class seems like exactly what the billionaires would want.
I don't know if it's that she didn't go far enough left in so much as she didn't go and far enough left on certain issues. As odd as it might seem there is a populist movement in the Republican Party. They do appeal to the working class for some odd reason. Their policy decisions don't always reflect it but their rhetoric oftentimes does. After all a number of Republican states passed fairly economically Progressive ballot measures.
It seems to me that she had a hard fight to win by saying she would tax billionaire their fair share. I’m sure they were all working together to pull strings against her.
Frankly I didn't see nearly as much of that as I expected. I don't think she was pushing all that hard to be honest with you. However I was speaking more to labor issues. To healthcare. She was certainly to the right of Joe Biden on all three of those issues I'd say. Lord knows she was far to the right on him when it comes to Consumer Protections issues. Her cow-towing to her billionaire donors and preparing to push Lena Khan out show that pretty strongly I think. Most voters heard her and smelled a rat.
She laid out a plan to handle price gouging and tax billionaires. She didnt seem left or right of Biden.