It’s a transparently self-serving, irrational, and counterproductive decision to run again as a third party candidate. It just exposes her arrogance and lack of actual consideration for the health of the country. If she thought she could realistically win, then she should try to primary Biden on the Democratic ticket. Anything else is actively destructive. So disappointing.
The mentality of people who just hate and drag anyone who identifies dem, in this day and age, drives me crazy. Because “democrat” is just not a political identity. The only core philosophy behind being a democrat is belief in evidence-based policy, fairness and justice at least some of the time, and that government should fundamentally be allowed to do the work of governance. Any political view that fits in that framework can make it under the tent.
To be distinguished from the modern conservative wing, who think government should be butchered and sold off to the highest bidder, that fairness and justice are part of the woke mind virus, and evidence is conspiracy.
That description could fit any political party. They all believe that their policies are “evidence based” and they’re fighting for fairness and justice, and that “government should fundamentally be allowed to do the work of governance”. The disagreements are over what qualifies as evidence, what fairness and justice is, and what “the work of governance” should be. For example, Republicans think that the role of government should be much smaller than the Green Party does.
The Republican Party has shown in so many ways that it does not believe in evidence-based policy. When a GOP politician talks about a faith-based policy, that’s because it’s not supported by evidence. It’s like that joke: “if alternative medicine worked, it would be called ‘medicine’”.
In your example that the GOP believes the government should be small, you’re buying their bad-faith boilerplate excuse for getting rid of things they don’t like. If they didn’t use this excuse, they’d have to give specific reasons why a program should be gutted or eliminated, and probably provide evidence as well. So they just say “small government”. But when there’s something they want, they happily expand the government and run up the deficit.
No one wants a more intrusive and powerful government than the modern Republicans.
They just don’t want it involved in any form of governance. They want it to be used to murder trans people, enforce evangelical christian dogma, and make them rich. They want it to look like Hungary or Russia.
Did you miss the part where every other time she’s run, she was funded by Republicans for the sole purpose of being a spoiler?
She knows what she’s doing. Obvious spoiler campaign.
If you read the article, it’s actually about the Green New Deal, which was the same issue she ran on in 2012 and 2016. You know, climate change. That issue that the Republicans don’t think is real and the Democrats don’t take seriously.
The same act that leases off land in the Gulf the size of Italy for drilling? How’s that act working out for us? Everything is still unaffordable and our wages are still stagnant
Of course - and siphoning progressive voters from practical opposition to Trump is going to help the climate a great deal.
Whoop deedoo Basil, what does it all mean???
Go fuck yourself Jill.
Wish she just fuck entirely off instead.
