And it’s platitude riddled bullshit. Absolute waste of time.
Your username is known around here already. You think any person in politics who isn’t doing EXACTLY as you think they should do is making concessions and pandering, but you’re wrong. You’re not voting for her anyway, so why even bother commenting here?
To be clear, it’s not the job of voters to be cheerleading sycophants for “team”.
Lemmy doesn’t really have a strong grasp of the importance of not supporting politicians or parties blindly. It’s important to be critical of them, their policies, their approach, everything.
We didn’t give ourselves a shot in this election carrying water blindly. In fact, those who were (the downvoters to op’s comment) were enabling and empowering Trump. In-fact Lemmy moderation even went as far as enacting bans to support this narrow and now demonstrated to be wrong approach to electoralism. What gave us a shot this cycle was a small cohort making a difficult but obvious point that we need to hold our candidates accountable, and if they aren’t acceptable, to reject them.
So I haven’t looked at the policies, but it’s awful late. It sounds like OP thinks they are vague. This was a real problem that we learned under Obama is that we can’t trust them to follow through with things in spirit; we need it in ink, or ideally in blood. Harris is clearly campaigning to the right and looking for Republicans rather than the left to carry her through. This has been shown to be a repeatedly terrible electoral strategy since 2012.
I’m all for having an honest debate about our politicians, and calling them out when they cowtow to the other side and either don’t lay down their policies to be held accountable or end up not doing what they promise, and in a Bush v. Gore situation, I’d even condone punishing Team Blue in one election to encourage them to be more Blue next election, but I’m not sure that that’s the smartest policy when Team Red has gone full Fascist. We get 2024 wrong, we may not get a 2026 or 2028 to fix it.
And to understand the downvotes, you have to understand the environment right now. Russia’s got a vested interest in the US falling to Authoritarianism. Trump wins in November, it’s only a matter of time until Russia snatches up parts of, if not all of, Ukraine, and wins a bigger seat at the International table as Trump turns a blind eye to Russia’s adventures in the world. Their strategy is to rally right-wing voters behind Trump, while distract Lefties with things like the war in Palestine, not getting exactly what they want domestically, and whatever else the Russians can dig up to shut down the Left as they work on revving up the Right. While I’m not saying EVERY criticism of a Leftie by a Leftie is Russian propaganda, I AM saying that there’s an awful lot of Russian propaganda posing as Left-Wing criticism of Kamala Harris, and this all serves the goal of depressing Left-Wing participation in the election so the Authoritarians can win.
Lemmy ‘voters’ are expressing that they think RangerJosie is either a right-wing plant, a ‘useful idiot’ Leftie, or a Russian troll (or bot). Each of these are bad in their own ways, and all three lead to the same outcome – an authoritarian takeover of the government that will leave lefties high and dry for a long while. Your own downvotes are coming from people who think you’re aiding Trump and are dishonest about your intentions, and you sure don’t help yourself with your replies.
And you’re bitching about modding? The moderators shut down any attempt to call out the paid actors or bots over ‘civility’. They sure aren’t shutting down the dishonest attempts by Russia to shut down Left-wingers and amplify authoritarians.
I’m sorry for the double post. But this teen girl clique drama sounding ass first line is incredible.
I’m waiting for you to call me Becky while shaking your head side to side.
Don’t even get the reference, but this certainly provides more evidence for my other response to you.
I may not be bothering to vote. But I reserve the right to complain.
Fear not. If she fucks around and loses ill talk mad shit about chump too.
No, you don’t “reserve the right to complain” if you aren’t taking part. That’s like saying you’re the asshole who gets to tell everyone else how they need to be living their lives just based on your own confidence that you have the better ideas.
You don’t. You have this tone of being some magnanimous asshole thinking everyone is just fucking up around you, but you’re just “allowing” it to happen.
Well that’s your prerogative. You can’t move politicians if you just hand off your leverage.
What are you talking about? The first paragraph in is showing clear policy points to achieve objectives. Do you think you’ll get bill numbers or something here?
I don’t Bill nor Hillary’s number! I’ll take Bernie’s, though…
“No you hang up. Nuh uh, you hang up this time. Okay, but before I hang up, tell me again about how I deserve dignity in life through healthcare?”
Edit: I forgot the word “want.” Oh well.
It is crazy how it took criticism for this to even happen. Someone you’re voting for should be able to list what their actual platform and agenda is. It helps to have it for record if you actually plan to attempt to hold these people in power accountable and not be on some weird parasocial worshiping stuff.
the corporate media will never hold both parties to the same ballpark standard but like trump has pointedly denied involvement in project 2025 and he’s not once talked about a policy grounded in reality, but the point is this isn’t unusual its like the standard playbook. The only reason they went after Kamala on it is they don’t like her.
Voters should expect policies, like you said. Its crazy this is allowed in the first place and the media enables it.
It only took her two months to figure out what her policies are 😂 I was wondering if she’d solidify her platform going into the debate or just talk about vibes like she did at the DNC. Looks like she’ll be focusing on the issues, thankfully.
She has had policies available since the DNC. Literally the Democratic platform, it’s like a 90 page document.
After criticism. Who the fuck cares. Only repubs. I want to know her policy too, but it’s not like I think she’s been dodging. They took time to craft it. Whatever, gotta be fair to both sides.
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