Posted on 08/29/2024 5:18:53 PM PDT by Baladas
Vice President Kamala Harris is taking some heat for being vague on policy. That suggests that people are forgetting, as they often do at this point in campaigns, to pay little heed to the promises of politicians.
This point in campaigns is about maximizing support, not holding policy discussions. The wonks tend to hate and mock this, and it indeed debases democracy, but it's also a fact of life. There are exceptions, but generally, as every study shows, policy is a lesser factor, especially among swing voters, than psychology, intuition, and emotion.
But journalists must journalize, and pundits tend to complicate. Even sober-minded outlets are getting in line to demand from Harris a more robust platform. "But how would she govern?" asked The Economist on its cover last week. Bloomberg's newsletter peevishly complained that the Democrats are "Big on love, short on details" and yearned for a policy plan for "better Bidenomics," with transparency on taxation, and such.
They'll probably be waiting for some time—at least until Nov. 6. Until then, everything said will be for the purposes of getting the base off their couches (a step to the left) and seducing swing voters (a skip to the right).
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Look at California, where the Dems have owned the state for 40 years.
Won’t happen for now, so don’t care
How would they govern? That’s easy. Just look at “Rules For Radicals” and Mao’s “Little Red Book”.
Look at the UK.
this point in campaigns?
voting for some starts in less than 2 weeks!
but she doesn’t think it’s time yet to get her policy info out so voters know it?
Blue to red blue to red blue to red
And the real world action speak louder than words, and people are speaking with their feet and their wallets
If after the almost complete collapse of the country, if the democrats gain sixty senators, the problem is not with the democrats, it would be the utter stupidity of the American voter.
What makes it so certain to not happen?
Dang, you beat me to it.... And that is the exact image I was going to use.
Below are 17 examples of Harris’ far-left record:
Co-sponsored legislation to protect illegal immigrants from deportation
Backed Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation
Backed banning private health insurance
Supported giving taxpayer-funded coverage to illegal immigrants
Supported banning fracking
Backed defunding the police
Compared ICE to the KKK
Wanted to ban plastic straws
Defended banning offshore drilling
Wanted to “undo” the Trump administration’s border security, taking 94 executive actions in their first 100 days to rescind nealy every Trump-era measure
Supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings
Said she wouldn’t “treat” illegal aliens as “criminals”
Called for “starting [ICE] from scratch”
Argued that temporarily closing the border violated federal law
Raised money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that pays to bail out of jail violent criminals, including accused murderers and rapists.
Supported Los Angeles’s cuts to their police department
Called efforts to add more police to the streets “wrongheaded thinking”
--American Free Press
Do you believe the republicans will win 11 seats in this election? I live in Wisconsin and while I like Eric Hovde, I don’t believe he’ll beat Tammy Baldwin….dont believe Kari Lake wins in Arizona, or Brown in Nevada, McCormick in Pennsylvania. That’s four. Sure the guy in Montana will win and West Virginia is a pickup, but we need nine more wins. Sadly, it isn’t going to happen
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