08-12-2020, 07:46 AM
So, after spending the night thinking on this and perusing all of my Marxist havens to see what my comrades have to say, I am ready to express some thoughts on this.
I've seen the attacks on Harris already coming from the GOP. The RPV already came out swinging and did so from the left. Pat hit the nail on the head where any policy attacks on her really will have to come from the left, and they will specifically have to be on criminal justice which is something Democrats are seen as weak on. So attacking her from the left on this merely exposes the GOP as full of shit. That's the reason for the pick right there.
Now, this strategy is intended to sway back the Obama-Trump voters. The Democratic party has been having the debate since 2016 of weather the moderate/Obama-Trump voters were the ones they needed to target or whether they needed to court the left. We've all seen this playing out over the last four years and had the debate ourselves. With the selection of Biden, the Democratic voters made the decision to court the moderates and this VP pick just solidifies that, as did the votes by the DNC to not include M4A in the platform. This doesn't matter to the GOP who are still trying to claim the party is letting the leftists take over, but the argument fails when faced with the facts.
The leftists aren't happy, but they are more likely to turn out to the polls and support the party this year than they were four years ago. They are thinking along these lines:
Now, Ken isn't a leftist, but he has some of the same issues with Harris that the left will have because he is a criminal defense attorney.
Here's also the fun part about the Harris pick, Trump donated to her campaigns twice and Ivanka donated once. This was during the Obama administration when Harris was running for CAAG. So after Trump had gone down the rabbit-hole of far-right conspiracy theories, he was still donating to her. Just an interesting thing to think about.
I've seen the attacks on Harris already coming from the GOP. The RPV already came out swinging and did so from the left. Pat hit the nail on the head where any policy attacks on her really will have to come from the left, and they will specifically have to be on criminal justice which is something Democrats are seen as weak on. So attacking her from the left on this merely exposes the GOP as full of shit. That's the reason for the pick right there.
Now, this strategy is intended to sway back the Obama-Trump voters. The Democratic party has been having the debate since 2016 of weather the moderate/Obama-Trump voters were the ones they needed to target or whether they needed to court the left. We've all seen this playing out over the last four years and had the debate ourselves. With the selection of Biden, the Democratic voters made the decision to court the moderates and this VP pick just solidifies that, as did the votes by the DNC to not include M4A in the platform. This doesn't matter to the GOP who are still trying to claim the party is letting the leftists take over, but the argument fails when faced with the facts.
The leftists aren't happy, but they are more likely to turn out to the polls and support the party this year than they were four years ago. They are thinking along these lines:
In short bad is better than historically, apocalyptically awful.
— DisappearingHat (@Popehat) August 11, 2020
Now, Ken isn't a leftist, but he has some of the same issues with Harris that the left will have because he is a criminal defense attorney.
Here's also the fun part about the Harris pick, Trump donated to her campaigns twice and Ivanka donated once. This was during the Obama administration when Harris was running for CAAG. So after Trump had gone down the rabbit-hole of far-right conspiracy theories, he was still donating to her. Just an interesting thing to think about.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
