+1 Preaching to the choir does not garner more converts to your religion. |
We need to wrestle the means of production from the greedy capitalist hands of the bourgeoise and only AOC & the Bern are capable of leading that fight. |
+1 honestly, I'm not left wing at all (Independent former R), but gender affirming care is like #1,000,000 on the things to worry about. However, I will say that AOC focusing on this is also a waste of time. This impacts like .001% of the population. It's great that they stand up and have compassion for the marginalized, but really, this is not something to focus on, for AOC or for the general public. Even so, if she and Bernie are the only Dems pushing against Trump and doing townhalls, then yea, I support that. |
Let them run, it will guarantee a Vance win. |
You are really out of it. You are the fool. Centrist leaders? Like who? Kamala was a centrist. So was Hillary. And they lost. The people want change. Until you wake up and realize that and get on board, Dems will keep on losing. |
But if Bernie and AOC cannot attract the young and non-white, it doesn’t matter how many stadiums they fill. And the issue is that the young and non-white have turned against the Democrats. I love seeing the enthusiasm, nice to see some actual attempts to counter Trump, but those crowds don’t move the needle electorally. |
Wake up!! Identity politics is not the issue. It’s finding a candidate who speaks to the people and what they NEED. It doesn’t matter if it’s a woman or man or POC. Stop focusing on identity. Hillary and Kamala lost because they were ultimately boring establishment candidates (despite being female and a POC). Trump was viewed as a change agent. |
It appears to be impossible for Democrats not to focus on identity. I agree with you, but I don’t believe the party has the ability to move past identity as the only thing it cares about. |
It's what the fringes of a party are there for. |
What does that mean exactly? That Republicans will finally stop attacking people based on identity so Democrats won't need to defend people anymore? |
That’s not the issue. The issue is the DNC establishment. They need to go and coastal elites like DCUM posters need to stop thinking we know what’s best for the party. They clearly do not. We need an economic populist who is a good communicator and who is authentic. That’s much more AOC than any of the candidates I hear suggested on here. |
True but the thing is, in order to be given a fair shot at gaining top ranking executive power in our Federal Government, AOC and/or Bernie will have to drop their anti-capitalism and pro closing the wealth divide rhetoric. No way in heck one of our major political parties will allow someone like them to piss off their mega-donors. We've seen Bernie get shut down by the DNC in past elections and the same holds true for AOC. Politicians like Bernie and AOC are stuck between a rock (their personal integrity) and a hard place (playing nice with big money in order to gain power). |
New poll released Friday by Morning Consult shows Kamala Harris at 36%, followed by Pete Buttigieg at 10%. Newsom, Tim Walz, AOC all at 5%. Mark Cuban, Josh Shapiro at 4%. Corey Booker, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker, Andy Beshear, and Amy Klobuchar at 2%. No one else registered in this poll. Use your preferred search engine to find it. |
How, specifically did Kamala Harris focus on identity? |
How does someone else's medical treatment harm you? And in the "breathe" bill there wasn't any specific "defund" dollar amount because the bill never got anywhere in debate. As for Bernie why do we need to throw someone in jail for smoking weed on their porch? |