So, Kamala Harris is expected to continue politics in the future. I'm not reflexively opposed to this in all regards, and it is vague, but some are already expecting her to run again in 2028. In which case, I'm just gonna say, oh GOD no.
This election cycle has soured me on Kamala Harris. Originally, I considered her one of the better establishment democrats who was slightly more progressive and slightly more aligned with my politics, but as 2024 has shown, she really didn't stick with it. If anything, my 2019-2020 criticisms of her being a "fauxgressive" who will abandon policies she was for ended up being accurate. And honestly, in retrospect, I really voted more against Trump than for her. I didn't actually like her as a candidate, and apparently neither did the public, because she didn't win.
So, I say, take the L, and be like Hillary. Retire from running for office (at least on a presidential level) and never grace us with your presence again. The people have spoken, we don't want you. I don't want you, please go away.
Really, if anything, I'm going more in the bernie sanders direction here. Bernie has been rather vocal since Harris's defeat about the democrats not really being for the working class, and I have to agree. I mean, the centrist dems tried to force progressives like, Bernie, AOC, and even me to work within their little "political realities" this election cycle and to show a united front to stop Trump, especially as the democrats did offer small gestures in our direction that we didn't want them to stop doing if we went against them. I understood the game, and so did Bernie, and so did AOC. We were doing the best we could within the crappy situation we found ourselves in. And I feared if the dems lost, they'd blame us for being too far left and go even more centrist. This time around, it seems like most people, at least the most vocal people, are going the other way. We're recognizing that we lost in part because we were TOO MODERATE, with most "extreme" positions being on so called 'wokeism." And I would largely agree with that assessment. I've long been criticism of wokeism, and I'm critical of the centrist dem direction of the party. Basically, I'm a critic of Clintonism. And both of those faults go back to Clinton 2016. I keep saying, she threw us in the cursed timeline, and honestly, yeah. We need a clean break from that. And I think people are finally willing to listen. Not everyone, but a lot of people. It seems like with the loss, a lot of us are finally saying what we really think, and we're basically not holding back.
And in that regard, I'm gonna say, hard no to Harris 2028. Some suspected she wants to run for governor of California instead. Let her. She could be decent there. She could also rerun for senate if she wanted to. But honestly, for president? I'm hard no on her. I don't know who will be good for 2028. Bernie is too old, Yang isnt even a democrat any more. I know some are saing Jon Stewart and the bar is so low I'm actually gonna outright say I'd prefer that over Harris.
But yeah. I don't want an establishment democrat in 2028. All the names being floated currently from the democratic side fill me with disgust, and give me the same "no" vibes harris does. And Harris gives me the same vibes as Biden 2020 and Clinton 2016 at this point. It's all the same brand of politics, and it SUCKS. We need a total rebrand, with a new generation of candidates, and by that, no, I don't mean that the 80 year old passes the baton to the 60 year old with the same views. I mean, we need someone who actually sees the world as younger generations do. Ironically, the 87 year old Bernie Sanders is the one who has his finger most on the pulse there. Yang, he had that mojo in 2020, but he's since kinda lost it with his centrist forward party direction.
But yeah, we need a populist candidate who actually understands the political landscape we are in, and who can actually accomplish generational change in the democrats and the country as a whole. I really hope 2024 was our 2012 Mitt Romney moment, and in 2028 we get someone coming out of nowhere who actually gets it and who would actually be good. I'm tired of the same old crap, and I don't think it matters if you change out the candidate. As I said online in a recently analogy I've made, it doesn't matter what your can of diet coke looks like, as long as it's still diet coke. If voters don't want diet coke, it's not gonna be popular. I don't want diet coke. Get that aspertamey crap out of here. Give me an authentic sugared soda that actually tastes good. Yeah. I love making drink analogies for some reason with this stuff.
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