To be fair, she would have been able to distance herself, but it seems like she was coached not to. At the same time as the Trump campaign was actively trying to link her to Biden, when she was asked what she would have done differently, she said “nothing”. Huge, collosal blunder, but the democrats are so stuck on their damn hierarchy, they’d rather scuttle a campaign than publicly say they’d have done something different than the outgoing president.
Also, I think the charming, boring centrist strategy is dead. Our system is about forty years overdue for major, major reforms and it was becoming untenable for people before Trump came and dumped a gallon of gas on it. Centrists have failed to meaningfully move the needle, and yes, I am saying the ACA was not enough. I’m aware of the legislative challenges, but it wasn’t enough. There’s a reason why Bernie had the DNC shit scared enough to work behind the scenes to get people to pledge their delegates to Biden and drop out. There’s a reason Obama, with his promise of capital C Change, stole what probably would have been Hillary’s presidential run. There’s a reason why voters have now chosen Trump- let me marinate that for a second, voters chose this flaming fucking idiot that has destroyed our republic- twice over centrist candidates. I don’t know how you could get much more centrist than how Kamala ran; can you name a single major, a la universal healthcare, left reform that she endorsed AND promoted with her most potent airtime? I think she supported universal childcare, but the lede was pretty buried there. Most of what she publicly boosted was shit right out of the Hillary campaign, like offering super means tested assistance to help people start small businesses. That would have been fine for the nineties, I guess, but we’re way past that; the system doesn’t need eyeglass screwdrivers, it needs a fire extinguisher and a hammer, and people have been voting like it since 2008. Imo, if we have a next election, it will be the democrats’ to lose by running yet another Goldman-Sachsmanist, but young white male this time.
To be fair, she would have been able to distance herself, but it seems like she was coached not to. At the same time as the Trump campaign was actively trying to link her to Biden, when she was asked what she would have done differently, she said “nothing”. Huge, collosal blunder, but the democrats are so stuck on their damn hierarchy, they’d rather scuttle a campaign than publicly say they’d have done something different than the outgoing president.
Also, I think the charming, boring centrist strategy is dead. Our system is about forty years overdue for major, major reforms and it was becoming untenable for people before Trump came and dumped a gallon of gas on it. Centrists have failed to meaningfully move the needle, and yes, I am saying the ACA was not enough. I’m aware of the legislative challenges, but it wasn’t enough. There’s a reason why Bernie had the DNC shit scared enough to work behind the scenes to get people to pledge their delegates to Biden and drop out. There’s a reason Obama, with his promise of capital C Change, stole what probably would have been Hillary’s presidential run. There’s a reason why voters have now chosen Trump- let me marinate that for a second, voters chose this flaming fucking idiot that has destroyed our republic- twice over centrist candidates. I don’t know how you could get much more centrist than how Kamala ran; can you name a single major, a la universal healthcare, left reform that she endorsed AND promoted with her most potent airtime? I think she supported universal childcare, but the lede was pretty buried there. Most of what she publicly boosted was shit right out of the Hillary campaign, like offering super means tested assistance to help people start small businesses. That would have been fine for the nineties, I guess, but we’re way past that; the system doesn’t need eyeglass screwdrivers, it needs a fire extinguisher and a hammer, and people have been voting like it since 2008. Imo, if we have a next election, it will be the democrats’ to lose by running yet another Goldman-Sachsmanist, but young white male this time.