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Do all these former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good?

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BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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Kamala came in with some lip service to progressives at the beginning and has essentially adopted bidens platform with little in the way of changes. She’s doubled down on fracking, distanced herself from the green new deal, and courted the center right (Democrat or Republican) from the DNC forward. It’s not surprising but it’s disheartening to see so many people get fooled by what has been the typical Democrat playbook since the 90s. Biden was bad optics so they traded him out. Vote for her because she isn’t trump, but don’t pretend that she’ll do anything different than follow the party line like her and everybody before her.

If you want to make some real change go ahead and vote for the Democrat. Then stop paying attention to electoral politics. Organize in your community. Agitate for worker unions in your work places and tenant unions in your neighborhood, start a political theory reading group, organize a food drive, free store, tool library, something. Literally anything other than wasting your precious time and energy on following the clown show in DC. None of them care about you. None of them want to help you. None of them are planning to make your life easier.

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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Republicans are not center right

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Deceptichum@quokk.au
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Yeah that’s the Dems, Republicans are far-right.

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Teils13@lemmy.eco.br
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currently most republicans are not center-right, but OP was referring to the (now narrow, but still existing) circle of center-right republicans, not to all the republicans.

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BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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Broadly I agree with you and have said more or less the same thing. But there are people who label themselves republican and fall in line somewhere closer to democrat. The two parties aren’t as far apart as we’d all like to think

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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I think that’s more of a case of mislabelling than of the parties being close together. If 90% of the party disagrees with you, you’re not really representative of the party’s beliefs.

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Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I have the hope that she’ll end up being more progressive after votes are counted.

Partially because she has Walz which is a good sign, but mostly I’m hoping for hopes sake. 🤞

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timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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Do you people realize that if you go against fracking you WILL lose Pennsylvania and then the election? There’s a reason for what they’re doing…

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BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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You people? Please enlighten me, who am I?

Sorry that I’m maintaining some degree of this esoteric concept known as having principles. If extremely mild criticism is enough to upset you then I’m not really interested in anything you’ve got to say. Take it easy

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ulkesh@lemmy.world
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If those principles help bring about another Trump presidency, then they wouldn’t have done you much good.

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timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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Boy you are touchy for such an innocuous reply.

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ashok36@lemmy.world
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If your predecessor beat the guy by using platform A, it stands to reason that a pretty safe campaign strategy is to not deviate from platform A very much.

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