lil skippy #21: brat summer/fall/winter/spring
Added 2024-10-21 19:00:54 +0000 UTChave the dems even listened to brat
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You mention you disagree that electing Harris would be the only way to prevent Trump, but I'm curious as to your reasoning? Specifically for those like me in a swing state. Your logic holds well for a safe state like California, but you don't address what you think should be done in swing states themselves. I'm coming at this from an open-minded perspective, to be clear. I agree with everyone here that Harris is dropping the ball *hard* at best, and I am actively looking for an alternative. I just don't know of one besides "vote for her, but complain a lot anyways."
LukeZaz
2024-10-26 17:53:06 +0000 UTCShe sucks so much. Even disregarding her career as a DA, this campaign has been catastrophic. Even from a bloodless electoral perspective, her pursuit of the "center right" has led to her campaign losing all of its initial momentum. It is her job to get our votes, and when she can't even bring herself to grab some freebies like denouncing a genocide, she isn't doing that job. Worse, she is giving signals that she does not care about the voters and that whoever is driving this (donors? handlers?) has more weight. You are not supposed to to 50/50 with a majorly unpopular fascist, that's supposed to be an extremely easy campaign to win for the dems.
François Blavoet
2024-10-25 04:02:17 +0000 UTCThe thing about living in California my whole life, and specifically San Francisco for half of it, is that I'm extremely familiar with Kamala Harris. I'm well aware of who she is. She was the cop-sponsored candidate to get rid of the city's truly Progressive DA, Terence Hallinan. (That's with a capital P; his dad was a Progressive Part politician back when that was a thing, and the apple didn't fall far at all.) She ran a total law-and-order, tough-on-crime campaign with all the dogwhistles. And as San Francisco's DA, and then as California's AG, she did all the things that portends. So, not only am I not voting for Kamala Harris because it's completely safe to do so, but because I know *why*.
An Oni Moose
2024-10-24 02:50:03 +0000 UTCI understand the felt urgency in electing Harris to prevent Trump returning to the White House. So I don't argue with people in *swing states* who feel that way. (Even though I disagree.) But none of that is relevant to me, personally, because I live in California. California went 2:1 against Trump the last two times. Even if everyone who voted for Bernie in the primaries had voted for California's ballot-qualified socialist party (Peace and Freedom) in November, Trump would *still* have been trounced by a 3:2 margin, and a socialist party would have gotten *2 million* votes. So if you're one of the people who voted for Bernie - you coulda voted socialist, just sayin'. It is *mathematically impossible* to throw California to Trump by voting "third party", even accepting the false premises behind that scenario. There is simply no reason *not* to vote either Peace and Freedom or Green in California. Sitting it out won't help at all; low turnout numbers don't bother them. But let a "third party" get even a few percentage points, and they lose their shit. If you want to register your displeasure with what the duopoly is serving up, you *need* to vote "third party" - that's the only way to get counted. And then vote on the really important items on the ballot - the propositions. (We and the Greens have recommendations on our respective websites.)
An Oni Moose
2024-10-24 02:42:14 +0000 UTC
