Some people will be miserable no matter who is running

  • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    I don’t like Harris at all. She’s just more status quo. We need big changes. Climate crisis is looming.

    The more salient point though, is that I don’t think she is the candidate to beat Trump. She just isn’t very likable. She’s not inspiring anyone.

    We need someone with some juice to beat Trump. We need a candidate that gets people excited.

    • kromem@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      She doesn’t need to be inspiring. She just needs to not be half dead.

      I think people are underestimating just how weak of a candidate Trump has become.

      It just wasn’t really able to be capitalized on because we were doing a whole “the emperor has clothes” thing on the left so the left media couldn’t point out Trump running around naked.

      He’s old and tired. And there’s now 4 months to show him as not only a fascist, but a half dead one that’s meandering and weak.

      He was only able to cosplay as a strongman when his opponent was literally presenting with Parkinson’s. Against a younger person the narrative immediately becomes “old man yells at clouds” and his BS can be rebranded as ‘confused.’

    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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      5 months ago

      I’m firmly of the opinion that no positive change will happen in time unless it’s at the point of a sword.

      And I’m still backing Harris. The Democratics would never permit a progressive to run, but at least this way we have a chance at 8 years before fascism wins. With Biden, we would have been lucky to get 4.

      And who knows, maybe she’ll pick a progressive VP to maintain the appearance of being for the working class!

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I agree. But there’s not enough time to get momentum on any of the other front runners. She has the biggest name without a lot of negativity from Right propaganda (Newsom).

      She’s our candidate. Any kind of run off is going to waste time and probably fragment the party. I’ll vote for Harris. Not as happily as I would even the old and faltering Biden that dropped out. But I’ll fall in line and vote for her, and promote her to others.

      Because it’s our best chance.