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She would have been so good
She would've been thoroughly mediocre, but that still would've been infinitely preferable to what we got.
Nah, her policy positions were good. She was on the right side of every issue with a reasonable plan to target it. There is no other president in recent history who is as progressive.
I find it werid that people will rate dems as if there is was a magical dem who would have been able to do everything.
kamala was more biden. the same group of people that was around behind created the conditions for a kamala run to even be possible.
they had to pull some weird "democracy games" to even get her on the ballot. pretend like biden was gonna run so he automatically wins the primary and only then announce he's gonna leave. really shows how far this democracy has fallen
as for kamala, biden's immigration proposals were "compassionate approach" and "immigration reform"
if you went to her website and looked under immigration there was only "strong border" and "border security"
to be honest, i only wanted kamala to win because she was a woman and that woulda been cool. but the descent into fascism would not have been meaningfully slowed down, i think
Harris was 100% on the wrong side of the Gaza genocide and also not even a little bit economically progressive. That second part -- the abject refusal to do meaningful things to help the working class -- is how she lost to Trump. People were seduced by Trump's dishonest and wrong, but easy, "scapegoat the minorities" answers to the question of how to restore prosperity.
she still would have supported genocide in gaza, and her term would have pushed people further towards fascism. there was really no real choice in that election, sadly. the usa was already too firmly controlled by the ruling class.
Accelerationism it is. It's too terminal to save, conservatives need to feel the pain.
don't get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn't have been good. she wouldn't have even been ok. but she was better than trump.