Summary
Kamala Harris’s political skills have transformed a potentially disastrous 2024 presidential election into a competitive race.
Despite initial skepticism and a challenging campaign, Harris has improved her public image and closed the gap with Trump on key issues. Since Biden stepped aside in July and endorsed her, she has shifted from an unpopular vice president to a viable candidate, even matching Trump in polls on economic issues.
Her leadership has given Democrats a chance to prevent a Trump landslide and halt the rise of American authoritarianism.
Edit: If Kamala loses, and it looks like she might, I’m blaming her and her campaign. She could have swooned the beliefs of America if she had ran on something better.
Her political skills are trash.
Kamala gained the most approved points after Biden gave her the race.
Since then, her approval rating has plummeted compared to her early numbers, and I think this is because Kamala doesn’t really know what to believe.
You can see it with Tim Walz. There was a lot of momentum when Kamala took up the mantle, and that momentum was carried through once the Walz pick came out. Then, around the DNC, the campaign’s tone shifted, crawling back to the ethos of the Biden administration. I think this is because Kamala couldn’t decide to break away from Biden or not, and because she waited so long, she was around a lot of the same people in the Biden administration, and those people influenced her platform. You can also see this with marijuana and how she changed sides in her time between being DA and senator. Also, how she didn’t really have a solid platform to begin with, which should have been established right when Walz was picked.
I’m not here to call her out as a flip flopper. I’m pointing to how she could have steamrolled this election, but chose not to. It saddened me so much when the campaign had silence Tim for his views and policies when those views and policies were the key to victory.
It’s truly embarrassing as hell to have a Democratic party that can’t absolutely crush a clown like Trump. The Democratic establishment isn’t just out of touch, it’s weak as fuck. Yes, this is on Kamala, but it’s also on Obama, and the Clintons, and Pelosi, and Schumer, and the whole “anyone but Bernie” coalition. This is the consequence of running to the center instead of tackling wealth inequality head on.
Maybe this says more about the electorate than the Democratic party.
That’s what 50+ years of neoliberalism does to a population. It’s a world wide phenomenon.
Any cortortion you have to in order to not ask the leadership any questions whatsoever, or question their motivations or strategy even a little bit. You’ll go far in corporate life.
Second Thought - Why the Democrats never get anything done
https://youtu.be/-vjnOc5UBbU?si=1BSAWSwJhUSyDDe5
I appreciate the input, but the things Vaush criticizes as shortcomings are positions about other nominally socialist or communist countries. The video I linked isn’t about socialism, it is about the US government.
That’s totally fair, but I think that serious issues with Second Thought’s philosophy should be understood when viewing any of his material.
I also wasn’t talking about Democrats failing to get things done. That’s a small part of it, but it’s mostly about who they are, how they message, and who they listen to. If the Democrats achieved everything they set out to do, I seriously doubt the situation with income inequality would be any better. In fact, Democratic initiatives have often made it significantly worse.
I think we all benefited from Bernie’s runs in 2016 and 2020 resulting in a marked change to Democratic party philosophy, but it’s not nearly the change the Democrats needed to be able to effectively message in the world we live in.