• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    17 hours ago

    In fact, an awful lot of the campaign trail was backing Israel, promising a more secure boarder, lying about how great the economy was, and promising to reach across the isle to work with the mythical “good Republican.”

    That’s what I was referring to by “what Harris was selling”. She did have well-thought out policy on her website, but she abandoned or watered down said policy whenever her corporate donors requested a “clarification”. One example is her promise to instate a wealth tax, which she continued to water down throughout her campaign until she ended up with an unfulfilled promise from Biden’s campaign.

    I can’t seem to find it when I try to look for it, but I saw around here after the election a statistical analysis of Harris’s campaign trail that found that she, as election day came closer, progressively stopped using phrases related to progressive economic policy such as “unions”, “wealth tax” or “housing crisis” and used words related to democracy and Trump such as “democracy” and “rule of law”. Harris started out as a genuinely promising candidate if you ignored her attitude towards Muslim Americans (which would turn out to be her undoing), and as the campaign progressed turned further and further into a right of center corporate stooge until she became Kamala “border wall” Harris and lost all seven swing states to Trump.

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      I noticed that as well. Her campaign went from electric excitement to, well, I don’t know quite what I’d call it. Resignation maybe? It reminded me a lot of the Hillary campaign by the end, and I continually got the impression that Kamala wasn’t really in the driver’s seat for her campaign. Here’s the moment that I started getting nervous, and someone in the campaign should have started smashing the panic button: Obama lecturing down to black men for not supporting Kamala enough.

      https://youtu.be/QVD17hg4O7o

      HUGE yikes moment when you start finger-wagging a group that’s supposed to be your base for not supporting you enough. Obama’s a smart dude, so I really have no idea wtf he thought he was doing here, and no idea why anyone ever thought staging and publishing this was a good thing to do. This should have been a red flag visible from space in so many ways.

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      The enthusiasm of the first week of her campaign announcement was through the roof, and I will never forgive the DNC (and her, to be fair; she capitulated) for knee-capping it.

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        I was genuinely more excited about a campaign than any in my life when Walz and her had their first rally. The first rally I ever watched. And I lived through Obama 2008. That was peek for me. By the end of the campaign I was resigned to vote for her. I did and I contributed money but it was solely because Trump is eviler. I will never forgive them for valuing killing Palestinians than defending our democracy.