• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I was excited when Biden dropped out and Harris got this huge surge as the new young, not actively deteriorating candidate, then more excited when she announced Tim Walz and got a mid western, blue collar surge, and cautiously optimistic when everyone was briefly focusing on how anti-democratic and un-American Project 2025 was, but then started getting worried when all I saw running up to the election was stories about abortion rights and women voting against their husbands and celebrity endorsements.

    It feels like Obama successfully ran a campaign of Hope and Change, and since then Democrats repeatedly campaign on maintaining the status quo and just not letting it slide too much further. And while it’s possible to win an election on the basis of ‘I’m at least somewhat competent’, it might not be in the US when so much of the population sees how fundamentally broken wealth inequality is at baseline.

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      10 months ago

      Not discounting anything you wrote here, but it still entertains me when people call the 60 year old Kamala Harris young.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          Black don’t crack, she genuinely looks youthful and it really helps that she can speak full sentences and thoughts without issues and/or changing topic like Biden or Trump

    • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Maintaining the status quo is conservatism.

      By definition that’s not what the left wants.