btaf45Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers
I really, really want to turn back the clock to 2008 when I was overjoyed for Barack Obama’s election.
But I can’t.
He expanded our warring presence globally, legalized torture, made health care more expensive, ignored abortion (which he could have legalized), brutalized Occupy, made sure the banks suffered no consequences for destroying millions of lives, and militarized the police.
Remember when Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson? It’s been ten years, and as with everything in this country, it’s only harder for the poor, middle class, and disenfranchised.
That is what you’re supporting in Kamala Harris. Conservativism dressed up in a politically-correct, acceptable package.
I can’t get over the mixed messages. Is she a socialist or a conservative? Because she’s being called both, which makes me think she’s somewhere between those extremes, and I’m good with that given the alternative.
She’s being called a socialist by the people who call everyone a socialist.
She’s being called a conservative because, as a prosecutor, her record was notoriously lopsided in prosecuting nonviolent drug users and truants.
I call her a conservative because, well, the Democratic Party has become an objectively conservative party. (Assuming you give them credit for their actions and not their words.)
Korne127I feel like people really don’t get how (especially filibustering) you can do extremely few to fix things. It’s very easy to break stuff, and do things worse, because you can just block things and make nothing get done, program expire, etc. But actually repairing stuff and getting new meaningful legislation that will improve the current state is almost impossible when it doesn’t have broad support in both parties.