Party aides are confident in US vice-president’s ability to bounce back, including a bid for California governor

Dear god, no. This is an abjectly terrible idea. Dems aren’t going to win until they stop being the other party of billionaires who are centre-right at best yet claiming to be for the working man. Come on, learn something from this election. We want a Sanders or AOC, not this milquetoast rejection of the full scope of the Overton window.

This is going to be a crazy four years, and to suggest we come out on the other side wanting a return to the same bullshit that held wages and lifestyles back for, by then, 50 years, is a failure to read the room. No one wants what the Democratic party currently offers, and I don’t see her suddenly becoming progressive. We don’t need another president on the cusp of getting Social Security when elected.

We want that for ourselves after paying into the system for so long, but that’s not going to happen. Find a new standard-bearer or die. Learn. Adapt. Run on real change, not the incremental shit that was resoundingly rejected and so generously provided us with the shitshow we’re about to endure. Voters stay home when you do that, and here we are.

I mean, how many CEOs need to be killed before anyone gets the message that what they’re offering has the current panache of liver and onions? Doesn’t matter how well it’s prepared; the world has moved on, and whoever gets the nomination in '28 needs to as well. Harris is not that candidate.

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    5 days ago

    I’m saying that’s why she lost then. She was in a field of better progressives as well as the status quo rep.

    This ^ is what tacosanonymous said. I’m not sure where you are getting “lost something because she was too progressive” from that.

      • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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        4 days ago

        Too progressive for the DNC, for them to allow her to win. Not progressive enough for voters.

        • Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 days ago

          She was not progressive at all! I think the person was saying that she lost because she was too progressive as a misconception to why she was one of the first out in 2020.

          She wasn’t too progressive for the DNC to put her second on the ticket, a heart attack from a very old man away from being president. That’s exactly why she was on the ticket. I am pretty sure she was one of the least progressive candidates, dropping out before 2020 even started.

          • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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            4 days ago

            I agree that she’s not at all progressive, but she is Centrist, and that’s too progressive for the DNC. I suspect that Biden made the call to make her VP independent of the DNC leadership, given that he’s generally had his own circle of confidants and friends.