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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

"Already, influential Democrats have shown a strong interest in [Kamala] Harris, with prominent former Clinton donors meeting privately with Harris in the Hamptons. The San Francisco Chronicle called her the Democrats’ 'Great Blue Hope', and a Guardian writer suggested that the combination of Harris’s race and her centrist platform 'could be the party’s solution to its identity crisis'.”

#BriahnaJoyGray, 2017

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/08/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left

In hindsight, it's easy to see where the Dems went wrong.

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dragonfrog
dragonfrog
@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@strypey I'm not sure it's easy enough to see that the Dems, as a party, are seeing it.
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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@dragonfrog
I suspect they see it, but they're trapped by the political reality created by the Powell Memo strategy. When they put forward neocon corporatists like Clinton and Harris as candidates, they get big campaign donations. When they put forward progressives like AOC or Sanders, that same money goes into misleading attack ads against them.

So no matter what individual decisions are made, the trend is for more candidates to be neocon corporatists. Because at least they can win sometimes.

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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

"While district attorney of San Francisco, Harris sharply reduced truancy rates by prosecuting parents and sending letters to every family in the school district warning them of the consequences of truancy."

#MelodyGutierrez, 2014

https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/kamala-harris-california-s-truancy-crisis-must-5304576.php

Really?!? Someone keen on this kind of authoritarian fucknuckling is the person the Democrats thought would attract enough votes from leftists and other independents to beat Orange Stalin? 🤦‍♂️

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