Progressive Politics

As long as he doesn't change his stance on the genocide in Gaza, it shouldn't significantly hurt his chances. This is for the old liberals afraid to vote for a 'radical' candidate.

Honestly I had the same concern lol

Hey! She might stand a chance at winning something now that she's not running against an 80 yr old child molester. Why would you take that from her?

This comment is glorious and I love it. Thank you for sharing that.

They are. Can't pull the "different party, same bosses" schtick if they elect people that don't play the game.

Michigan progressive^+^ here. Not particularly. I read this as a shallow attempt by El-Sayed to use her reach to push his message and a doomed attempt by Harris to use El-Sayed to launder her reputation with the left. El-Sayed likely sees that he will come out ahead, but its not a moment to he proud of. Mostly a waste of time instead of campaigning with Donovan McKinney, save for the fact multiple days worth of articles are being posted about the one event I guess...

Socialists are VERY easily upset when purity tests aren’t passed.

Because two years ago, she was the frontwoman of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

When Biden flamed out, there was an opportunity to chart a clear course away from the imbecilic positions and sound bytes of the DNC’s establishment and political consultant class. Instead, she toed the line, and lost. Not to mention, voter turnout tanked because she was just offering more of the same, instead of actually making any attempt to iterate and improve on any of Biden’s positions.

Conservatives called "neo-liberals" are in control of our Democratic Party. She is a neo-liberal who would not condemn genocide when she was running for president.

The normal people want a progressive candidate, not a neo-liberal. Conservatives are pathological liars and we are tired of them being the only two choices.

Part of her campaign was getting buddy buddy with Liz fucking Cheney the the old Dem strategy of trying to appeal to Republicans instead of trying to appeal to progressives. Also she was a prosecutor and leaned into tough on crime bullshit.

She is a younger version of the same old party membership that needs to go away and let the progressives take the lead.

The simplest answer is that she is far too centrist for anyone who wants to see actual change. People want someone on a mission to make things better not just try to make things not get worse.

The genocide is a big part of it.

It's been 8 hours and you've already got a lot of replies. I wanted to offer something that isn't rooted in symbolism and political identity but just disregard if you feel like it's already clear:

Kamala's the latest in a procession of DNC leaders who already had jobs in presidents cabinets. That gives them experience and sounds great until you look at who those presidents were. Then you realize that for the last decade we've just been running the same guy spiritually since Obama left office and the US has no hope of ever growing beyond bombing brown people and pardoning pedophiles.

Add on that Harris' predecessor was segregation-era architect of inequality and overpolicing in his career, and that she basically replicated his carceral strategies in her home state before ever working with him. It starts to be obvious that this procession of leadership would never be trusted with presidential power if they weren't the only alternative to TurboHittler. It's manipulative.