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Democrats eye Harris 2028 presidential run as they devise political comeback (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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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.

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Or you could learn any kind of lesson at all and run a candidate that's actually worth being enthusiastic about instead of a centrist who's still going to be seen as the second coming of Stalin by the right.

[–] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Right winger really. She got endorsements from the Cheney's. She had nothing to say about Gaza, BLM, East Palestine Ohio, the housing crisis, ir anything else that mattered.

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

youre right, but choose a candidate because theyre good, not someone based on how the right will respond. Literally any candidate is going to be portrayed as Stalin by the right.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I said that because they're picking centrist candidates as a fig leaf that's just going to get shit on anyway. It's time to start putting actual leftists in office, not only because they should be there but because this "strategy" of trying to bridge the gap with modern day McCarthiests is stupid.

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

I agree completely

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure several democrats will run?

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

I even gave it some time to see if somebody else would point it out for me but the Democrats are who I was talking about.