why not run a milquetoast loser again???
What’s wrong? You don’t like tax credits and genocide?
I want her to run… Far far away from here.
“Pokemon GO… The fuck away!”
All night and day, even though she couldn’t get away.
LITERALLY NO ONE! STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS BULLSHIT HAPPEN!
NOONE WANTS GAVIN NEWSOME EITHER. FUCK CA POLITICS.
The fact that there’s even a whiff of Kamala running again is great evidence that we are so fucked and will continue to be so fucked.
Good chance for 3rd party
The US has a 2-party system. Period. Until we change things in a constitutional convention, or a revolt of some kind, that won’t change.
There should be a constitutional convention every 50 years. The laws from 200+ years ago are somewhat stale and very susceptible to manipulation.
I’ve also thought a constitutional convention might be the only way to fix things.
But also, I think there’s no way, practically speaking, that the right wing doesn’t use that opportunity better than the left wing, to simply give us a new fascist constitution.
That the point of my comment
But there isn’t a good chance. That[’s] the point of my comment.
No, this is the time, we do or get completely fucked.
To be fair, Hillary Clinton floated running again in 2020 and she never even launched that campaign. I don’t think there’s much intent behind this. I suppose it makes these former candidates feel special, or satiates some craving for attention :P
They needed someone out there on day 1 after the election to be the face and the presence of the DNC as a clear personality for the next run. Instead it’s likely you will get someone in the last five minutes.
I think so little of American voters that I just assume the democrats could pick any white man and win. For whatever reason, a large portion (i.e., the uneducated) of the American public is too sexist to vote for a female democratic president. The minute the republicans put one forward as a serious candidate, suddenly then it will be great.
Same. At least 2/3 of voters wouldn’t vote for a minority woman. Acknowledge that first, then you can change.
I want a real progressive to run is the main problem.
This bitch lost the presidency to the worst piece of shit on the face of the planet. Why in the fuck does she think she has any chance trying to run again?
Absolutely not. No more typical status quo corporate liberals.
Who Wants Kamala Harris to Run?
Netanyahu.
He’s fine with any person who would be capable of being elected - US Government policy is to kiss Israel’s ass regardless of which party is in charge. But a Republican would always be preferable to him.
She can run if she wants, but I can think of at least 5 better choices: Kelly, Warren, Buttigieg, AOC, Walz, and a bunch more.
Kelly and Warren are my top choices. AOC should do a turn in the Senate first.
Real question:
What would AOC gain by spending time in the Senate?
Or how specifically would it make her a better candidate?Regan, Clinton, Bush, Bush Jr, and Rump never spent time in the Senate.
She is super fucking smart, and she could probably do a killer job right now, but the next Dem Prez needs to be a serious warrior that progressive fighters can respect and follow, and the MAGA enemy can fear. They just aren’t going to do that with AOC at this point, she’s too young. She can inspire a following, but not fear. We need someone that has the courage to crush MAGA, and inspire a following to help, and I think that could be Kelly.
Once MAGA has been purged, we will have to reconfigure our government for the future, and having AOC leading the Senate, with an equally committed progressive in the House, could accomplish ground-breaking legislation like FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society, put guardrails on conservative Sedition, and put us on a proper path for the future,
She’s going to be an AMAZING president someday, but I would like her to have some seriously deep experience and connections before that, perhaps even including a Cabinet post. Imagine her becoming president with that sort of experience behind her?
Right now, Kelly seems like the kind of guy that MAGAs are going to have a hard time fighting against. The guy is an actual, genuine, bona fide war hero AND an astronaut. Exactly the kind of guy MAGAs would drool over. Put him up against a dweeb like Vance? In a debate? Kelly will siphon off at least 25% of MAGA votes.
Why did she run the first time? Why was she selected as VP after getting zero votes in the primary? Why was she pushed as the only option after Biden finally dropped out? Why is she still being discussed?
The fact that this is happening is showing that real decisions are being made without the voters being involved and whoever is making those decisions will win either way.
Also can someone post the article, it’s paywalled.
thanks!
Just stop already.
Many Americans can’t deal with a woman candidate for President much less a minority as well, it’s as simple as that.
Know what you are and okay between the lines. Put a white man upfront if you wanna win.
You are getting down voted for the truth. USA loves their leader pale, male and stale and would rather vote some demented grandpa over a woman. A woman of any color? Look how the US got triggered with Obama to civil war.
TLDR; the next election will not change much.
As a Kamala voter most people I know chose to not vote because she’s a fucming neoliberal.
The sort of people willing to vote in someone who’s neither white or a man, aren’t willing to vote in another useless so-nothing neolib.
Fucking run AOC. NO ONE UNDER 40 WANTS NEOLIBERALISM. Its not fucking hard dude.
But yeah continue to ignore literally everyone who decided not to vote, I’m sure that will get them to the polls next time around.
2/3 of the voters didn’t vote for Kamala and effectively voted, not voting is a vote, against their own interests. For many of them, it wasn’t about the policies or what her position was. It was because she was a minority woman.
If you don’t acknowledge the fact that many Americans are either misogynists, racists, or both, nothing will change.
Of course a giant chunk of people are bigots. They’re called trump voters, and anyone they’d elect is someone not worth electing.
The people we need are the ones who didn’t vote, and they overwhelming talk about specific policy issues with Kamala, they saw Trump as a non-starter because he’s a bigoted greedy piece of shit.
Non voters caused all the problems, and most people bitching on Lemmy/reddit did not vote.
Yeah that’s my point. If you run someone the non-voters want to vote for THEY’LL ACTUALLY GO OUT AND VOTE.
Its crazy what actually having a personal incentive to vote will do.
No one under 40 votes, so AOC is irrelevant.
Yeah its almost like people who don’t have candidates that represent them don’t want to vote.
I WONDER HOW WE COULD FUCKING FIX THAT?!?!
Like Jesus Christ dude, how cognitively nearsighted are you?
I’m tired of this argument. It’s a bit baseless. Americans are fine with women in politics. There are many who get elected in both parties. Republicans, the party of sexism, fkn loved Sarah Palin
Americans don’t like genocide. Americans don’t like prosecutors. Americans don’t like phony squares who talk down to them with means-testing and tax credits
Not it
