After Biden’s meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly “progressive” pick for Kamala Harris’ running mate.

  • bunbun@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    “Vote blue no matter who” means that liberals and more progressive people are supposed to support the Dems even if the party is entirely incompetent and outright harmful to the causes people support. Because the Republicans will fuck everything up even more. Harm reduction, right? So I am explaining that the recent decisions of the democrats were finally the opposite of that.

    Tim Walz and his Democratic-Farmer-Labor party’s record in one session:

    • Statewide paid family and medical leave for all workers
    • Child tax credits
    • Child care assistance
    • Free school breakfast and lunch for all students
    • Free public college for lower-income families
    • Codified Roe v. Wade
    • Extensive legislation on protecting trans people
    • Banned conversion therapy
    • Labor protections for nurses, teachers and school workers, Uber and Lyft drivers, Amazon workers
    • Banned non-compete agreements
    • Put over a billion into the housing budget. Ten times more than the previous one
    • Background checks and red-flag laws for gun purchases
    • Banned no-knock warrants and white supremacists from pig forces
    • Additional billions in public transit and infrastructure investments, environmental programs
    • Right to repair law

    Each of those issues is widely popular among voters, and are objectively progressive policies. So the Democrats are doing a smart thing by campaigning on them.

    Now on the Palestine issues Kamala is currently doing the exact opposite. Morals aside, since we’re talking about the materialist side of politics, this is an incredibly popular issue with Americans, 70% of whom are in support of a permanent ceasefire. The uncommitted movement is going to play a significant role in this election. And if she doesn’t present a strong stance on this very soon, she might undo all the good decisions that the Dems made in the past month, like dropping Biden, supporting Kamala, and picking a progressive VP.

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      3 months ago

      Where are you getting this information? Because this part:

      Labor protections for nurses, teachers and school workers, Uber and Lyft drivers, Amazon workers

      Is in direct contradiction with what’s in the OP, claiming he vetoed a bill that would have established minimum pay-rates for Uber and Lyft drivers and has family connections to Uber’s top lawyer. As well as gutting a bill to prevent hospitals from understaffing nurses.