Her open hostility to progressive programs, policies, and candidates is a bright red flag.
Biden picking her itself is a bit of a red-flag - not just because he's Joe Biden - but because there is a clear focus on "returning things to normal" as opposed to drastically improving them.
I’m a Warren G, but I’ve supported Biden all the way through and will continue to, but let’s not act like we haven’t realized what this is. Let’s not pretend Republicans didn’t know what they were talking about when they were talking about Kamala. The real change comes after we drag people back toward center and then use Biden as a step-ladder for Kamala. And while not full-blooded progressive, she will be able to live and die with more progressive policies more so than Joe can.
Joe Biden is only going to rock the boat back to the previous status quo and implement some incremental changes. This is the last stand for the dinosaurs of the party and their antiquated thoughts and processes. If you want progressive policies and real structural change, 2022 is the year people have to show up like they did this year but also vote in primaries and general elections for those candidates.
To get the money out of politics, you gotta put money behind the progressive candidates. To get election reform, you gotta stop looking at safe seats and unlikely seats and compete every election. So that Kamala (or whomever) can have the mandate to begin the big changes.
People aren’t pragmatic enough to realize that the main goals were
1) GET THE WHITE HOUSE BACK
That’s it. Yes, hopefully picking up some seats in the Senate from traditionally red states or possibly expand the house, but ending the Trump Traveling Circus was the important thing. And if you didn’t think Neo-Liberals, Careers, Republicans, and staunch moderates weren’t going to be the force that could drag America to slightly left (and I mean ever so slightly left) of the end of the Obama Administration.
America hates radical change. HATES. And when I say America, I mean white people over 55. After decades of not much change because of increasing life expectancy, it’s finally taking a downtrend while their birth rates are down. But if there is anything you can take from this election, they were just as motivated to vote as we were. You have to let them die off, take the fight out of them, and bury them at the voting booth. And you do that with slow bleeds like ACA or the Paris Climate Accords.
All in all, it’s time to stop arguing unless it’s primary season. Everyone isn’t going to get what they want, especially progressives, but that also includes moderates and neo-liberals. The tide is turning, it’s just gonna take some time and you gotta get the old heads out and put the new school in. And that takes time.
You can complain about AOC, but she’s holding more people accountable and working with different people of different viewpoints than Steny Hoyer ever has. Katie Porter is America’s sweetheart because she takes it to the big man. Cory Booker, no matter how beholden he is to Big Pharma, and Tammy Duckworth are gonna be around for a while challenging the status quo. Doug Jones will be back. Warren and Bernie were never going to be the ones to flip the tables. They were the ones to bring the big ideas to the table. Pelosi and Schumer were never going to push harder than they had to. 2022 is the time to start letting Scranton Joe start pulling all the punches and set the table for the future. And it’s our job to get the people in the position to force it because the DNC actually caused all this.
you heard them. When anyone to the left of them voices any concerns it's "complaining." That says a lot. I haven't even fully vetted any of these people yet but damn this shyt is wild to see.
