• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I think the idea is that she is already VP, so it creates less drama than trying to shoehorn someone else in at the last moment. We already have had to accept her being one seat away from the presidency, making her the candidate is easier for voters to swallow.

    She’s no worse politically than Biden, but she isn’t ancient and fumbling the job either, so I would absolutely vote for her if she were the candidate.

    If Biden does step down, I don’t see any possibility that the DNC could replace him with anyone else that isn’t going to create extreme disunity amongst Democratic voters.

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      4 months ago

      Harris has been an active and progressive VP. She has been better and more effective than every VP going back to Dan Quayle.

      Her only problems are charisma, and right wing propaganda. Same as Hillary.

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        4 months ago

        I wouldn’t call right wing propaganda “her problem”, right wing propaganda is going to exist for literally any liberal that challenges the far-right.

        Why are we pretending that Kamala and Hillary were uniquely hated by the right? The entire Republican platform is a platform of hate. We cannot take their prejudices seriously because prejudice is all they will ever offer.

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          4 months ago

          Hillary was uniquely hated though. She was a solid first lady and an OK senator and pretty good secretary of State. And the discourse around her was brain boilingly toxic. Obama was the only Democrat that experienced something similar, maybe Pelosi. Biden, Clinton, and Gore did not get that level of visceral hatred.