So, I know it's early and for all we know, we might not have elections, or might not have fair elections, who knows at this point, everything is on the table and it's scary. But say we do have fair elections. What am I looking for in a candidate?
I mean, at this point, the bare minimum is they FIGHT TRUMP!
Seriously, there is no point in voting democrat if they're gonna roll over and just enable him anyway. We are in a very dangerous moment in american history, and I want people to FIGHT. I dont want people to roll over. If this next election is between the LITERAL NAZIS, and General petain of vichy france, I'm just gonna vote third party. If this is between a Reagan republican a lot Slotkin, or Trump...you might as well not vote. The republicans have ideological supremacy. We are in a new era, and that new era literally has two right wing parties. The direction the democrats wanna go in is just...being what the GOP used to be in the 6th party system.
Again, my bare minimum isn't something crazy like UBI or universal healthcare at this point, it's just FIGHTING. PUSHING BACK. I am taking notes and paying attention to what possible candidates are doing. I'm already developing a tier list. Right now, these are the top candidates:
Bernie Sanders- S tier
Bernie sanders is still the best ideological foil to trump we got. He's launching a "stop the oligarchy" tour and he's still filling stadiums. The dude is in his fricking 80s, and he's still the best fighter we got. He not only stands up to Trump, he offers an ideological alternative to him. And he pushes it with genuine conviction. If not for his age, he would be the de facto spiritual leader of the democratic party at this point.
AOC- S tier
Want Bernie but younger? Check out AOC. Ideally, I'd like to see AOC become speaker of the house. I want her to be the new nancy pelosi. let her be "mama bear", but I would still vote for her for president. She's very intelligent, she gets in the weeds of policy discussions. Sure, she has a bit of the work ethic, but still, she's a solid candidate.
Tim Walz- A tier
Tim Walz was kinda milquetoast last year as part of Harris's ticket, BUT...he admits they played it too safe, and said that the american people arent gonna want tinkering around the edges with the ACA, they want universal healthcare. You say those kinds of things, I like you. I know that harris and walz kinda stifled themselves to fit in this weird third way box. And he seems to have learned his lesson from that. He's also going around the country hosting town halls for red districts where the republican congresspeople there refuse to because they dont want their constiuents yelling at them over trump and musk's BS. So yeah, he's fighting too and he has been willing to shift the overton window left too.
JB Pritzker- B tier
JB Pritzker might be a billionaire, but he seems to recognize the moment we are in and he seems willing to fight. Again, at this rate, in 2028, it's less about policy wish lists, it's more being willing to fight for mere survival. Push back against trump, push the overton window back to the right, I'll settle for "not third way" at this point.
Andrew Yang- B tier
So...idk how to feel about Yang right now. on the one hand, he has a great ideology that I may have had an indirect hand in influencing, but at the same time, will he FIGHT? Is he even willing to run? We'll see, he can still impress me, but I feel kinda meh on yang right now. We need a fighter. And he's a bit of a compromiser.
Kamala Harris- C tier
Harris has been pretty mum since her 2024 defeat. There has been speculation of her running again, or running for governor after greasy gavin leaves, but yeah, I'd rather see her as governor. I dont want her to run for president again. And the fact that she's been so silent since November 5th really says it all. her campaign was kind of a disaster. I mean, it wasnt as bad as some think it was, but walz said it all, they played it too safe, they needed to fight harder. And I just think that 2024 kinda blacklisted her for me. That brand of the party is done (or should be done), it needs to go away already. Ideally we need progressivism, but at the least, we need someone willing to fight trump and be confrontational. I dont think she's it.
Gavin Newsom- D tier
Kyle covered Gavin today and he's kinda doing the civility politics crap of running to the right. Nope. If anything after seeing his 2024 polling numbers, HELL TO THE NO.
Any third wayer, any compromiser, any appeaser- F tier
Look, I may be willing to put my actual ideology and beliefs aside in this era to some extent, BUT....if you're a third wayer, or you're selling me out as badly as my PA democratic representatives like John Fetterman or Chrissy Houlahan are, I want nothing to do with you. I really hope those guys get primaried, and I'm highly considering leaving their boxes blank the next time they come up to vote. Houlahan voting to censure Al Green was disgusting to me, and Fetterman has been selling out left and right where I literally want nothing to do with him. Those guys are a disgrace.
But yeah. I know, WAY too early, and we'll have a way better idea where things stand in 2 years after the mid terms, but yeah. I really want the centrist faction to go away. They're literally acting like General Petain in Vichy France. Just rolling over for Trump and becoming complicit in his BS. And it sickens me. When the choice is between a nazi and one who literally appeases the nazis, yeah, even VAUSH of all people are rethinking their stance on pragmatic voting by this point. When you make VAUSH rethink his stance, since he's one of the biggest vote shamers on the internet, ya done F'ed up.
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