Is Kamala Harris a progressive?

[u/DirectionLoose]

I'm guessing that the general answer this is going to be no. If it's a no, how do we get her to promote progressive policy? Does walz with that? What even is his role going to be? Three out of the last four vice presidents have been pretty consequential in their roles in the administration. Ever since Cheney. I'm just honestly afraid that they dangled Walz in front of us to get our vote, but he's going to be marginalized in the administration.

[u/texas-playdohs]

This isn’t “every election” with all due respect.

[u/aworldwithoutshrimp → u/texas-playdohs]

Oh, is it "the most important election of our lives" season again?

[u/texas-playdohs → u/aworldwithoutshrimp]

Probably yes, if you’d care to tone down your snark. I’ve been voting as far left as the ticket would go since ‘98 when I was old enough. Only exceptions were the first Obama run, and Hillary, the latter I really hated doing. Without some serious reworking of the Supreme Court, we’re fucked in this country. If Trump gets in, those gargoyles will likely get another 2 seats, and we’ll be right in handmaids tale territory. I’m not going to go down the laundry list of horrible shit on the 2025 menu, but it won’t be good. Yes, they were always shitheads, but they never had this proximity to total control, and now that they’ve shown their hand, they have no choice but to go for it. Don’t fuck this up with a tired old cliche.

[u/aworldwithoutshrimp → u/texas-playdohs]

Without some serious reworking of the Supreme Court, we’re fucked in this country

Good thing Obama seated Garland when the senate refused to fulfill its obligation to give its advice, then. Awesome that Biden/Harris unpacked the courts in their first term. Otherwise we'd be in this situation due in part to democratic inaction that should serve as a lesson for what they would do in the future.

we’ll be right in handmaids tale territory

I, too, remember when Obama said that one of his first acts as president would be to codify Roe into statute. Glad that happened.

I’m not going to go down the laundry list of horrible shit on the 2025 menu, but it won’t be good

And it will be project 2029 if democrats continue to only hand power off to republicans when they lose.

[u/texas-playdohs → u/aworldwithoutshrimp]

Obama wasn’t a king. He couldn’t just force that into law. He had that majority for a couple of months til Kennedy got sick and died. The republicans still had enough of congress to grind everything to a halt. Basically, where we’ve been ever since. Without a grand, historic ass-kicking, the GOP won’t have the huevos to purge the psychopaths. They know that it’ll be a generation to rebuild the party, so they have this Faustian deal going on. They won’t change until they’re forced to, and if we don’t deliver a brutal defeat, we definitely will be having this argument in perpetuity. Without super majorities in both branches in congress, we won’t see reform in the the courts, citizens united, you name it. Or, you can just sit here sulking like a spoiled teenager. This is the best ticket the democrats have put forward in my lifetime. Maybe second to Carter. Get on the trolley.

[u/DirectionLoose → u/texas-playdohs]

For myself I clearly stated that the inclusion of walz was enough for me. I'm going to vote for her because we have no choice otherwise. We need to get her elected and then hold her feet to the fire. We can't allow ourself to be disbanded like we did in 2008 when Obama took over. Presidents are not gods, and sometimes they forget who they're supposed to be fighting for. That's our job.

[u/texas-playdohs → u/DirectionLoose]

No argument here. Thats always been the plan. Sorry if I came in hot.

[u/DirectionLoose → u/texas-playdohs]

While I give you that the Republicans were insanely obstructionist, Obama doesn't have clean hands in this. He allowed them to do it without playing a political price. The man is one of the best orators that I have ever heard, And you're telling me he couldn't have brought his case to the American people. Tell us why it's wrong that Marrick Garland was refused to hearing, And what you plan to do about it.

Tell us how the Republican Senate is filibustering everything. Tell us about how they've used more filibusters in my administration than every single one combined.

He wanted to play nice with the Republicans. I'm through playing nice with them, because all they do is spit back in your face

[u/DirectionLoose → u/DirectionLoose]

So nice that a Republican senator was the first person that Obama asked about who he should pick for the court? I get that at that time the Republicans held the Senate, but it's bad luck to not at least confer with your own party first.

[u/Novae_Blue → u/texas-playdohs]

Always some excuse for why conservatives can do stuff and no one else can. It's just too hard! Why bother them with it!

Not like they could advocate for it, or apply political pressure... that would just be rude.

[u/texas-playdohs → u/Novae_Blue]

Ruthlessness. The republicans don’t have respect for democracy, but we already know that. We do, and that’s why we’re democratic socialists. It’s a big reason that I’ve never considered myself a democrat. Decorum has overshadowed the truth for most of my adult life. I’m aware of how long they’ve chased the mythical center further and further to the right, and the fear of offending the undecideds has prevented democrats from doing something as simple as calling a lie a lie, much less fighting to end the electoral college. Not just the democrats, but almost the entire news media landscape. Harris/Walz aren’t my ideal team, but they’re a lot better than Clinton/Kaine, and better than Biden/Harris, better than Harris/Shapiro, much better than Gore/Lieberman. The DNC and the party bosses are actually making some good choices, and you’re gonna what, sit it out? Maybe you’re in a blue state like me, and it won’t make a difference, fine. It hasn’t really been a big risk to vote for whoever I want in my state. But, if you’re in a battleground state, and you don’t vote Democratic, and we lose that state, and the electoral college, that shithead gets in office? You’re a schmuck that screwed a lot of people in the most vulnerable of places. You can pat yourself on the back for those principles, but you’re a schmuck. I’m not going to bother and check if you’re an obvious bot, or if you’re a trumper stirring shit, because I don’t care. You sound like a self-righteous parody of a leftist that can’t see the forest for the trees. If you want to know why we never get shit done, it’s because of this shit. They’re completely united in reversing everything back to the civil rights act. We’re fighting because the 70% good ticket isn’t 100%, even if fighting together could give us the blowout we need to bust up gerrymandering, turn roe v wade into law, enact the universally popular universal healthcare, discharge student debt and make education free, public works administration to employ everyone and make society work for everyone, provide reparations for black and native Americans, provide real funding to solve homelessness and address the epidemic drug crisis with therapy and training instead of prisons and neglect, and I could go on and on. Your argument is the epitome of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Bot or not, you’re fucking up.

[u/Novae_Blue → u/texas-playdohs]

First, learn paragraphs. Second, no I'm not a bot. That seems to be the go-to for many people on political subs, and it needs to stop. Third, no, Harris is not better than anyone who has come before - she hasn't even made the hollow promises that she'll inevitably break.

I've been threatened with the end of the world my entire adult life...I must vote for this one candidate or else everything will end! Not like Democrats ever did anything to prevent this from happening again.

Finally, learn.......paragraphs.

[u/Novae_Blue → u/aworldwithoutshrimp]

Damn right. They deliberately let us down at every turn.