I'm not surprised. Aside from checking off both the requirements with which Joe Biden had cornered himself, she sends a different set of signals than, say, a Susan Rice, or a Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Harris does the best anyone from the circumscribed pool Biden had established can in terms of assuring the hard left base that that is the direction of the party. From co-sponsoring the Green New Deal to advocating for Medicare for All to asserting that the extermination of fetal Americans is a right to raising the capital gains tax and the corporate income tax to her views on guns to the hyper-combative stance she brings to Capitol Hill hearings for judicial appointees, she can allay any concern that there's ever been anything to this notion of a moderate prevalence in the 2020 Democrat party.
One big question is whether the Very Stable Genius can deal with her in some sort of dignified way, presenting his argument against her to the American people with some sort of class, or whether he'll do so with maximum boneheadedness. I think the latter is the more likely scenario, and if that's the way it unfolds, some great chances to make a really convincing case against Harris will be missed.
But an even bigger question is whether America is such a different country from what it has been until recent years that something like a Biden-Harris ticket has great appeal. People are accepting of such things as socialism and unconventional modes of sexuality and collective racial guilt to a degree that would have been inconceivable 20 years ago.
How accepting? That's what will become more apparent as autumn closes in.
Advocating for universal health care has been a century-long endeavor but for your dated and now proven to be diaphanous "free market principles" (we're so great and exceptional, why can't we make it work?); the legality of abortion was established half a century ago; raising the capital gains tax and the corporate income tax will obviously have to be in the mix due to stimulus spending,currently falsely emboldening the stock market; and, is her hyper-combative stance at hearings really any more so than the venom spewed by ex- prosecutorial brethren such as Cruz & Gowdy? Again, America has a choice between the lesser of two evils. Hope I don't run into your sorry censorious and censoring ass at either the ballot box or the post office on, before or after Nov.3!
ReplyDelete1.) There's nothing dated about free-market principles. Economic freedom is core to freedom in general. Universal health care is a stupid thing to advocate for. It imparts powers to government far beyond what Madison envisioned. It's also predicated on the idea that health care is a right, which, by definition, it can't be.
ReplyDelete2.) The "legality" of abortion may have been established 50 years ago, but the question looms for anyone who makes that the central point: Are you okay with that? Do you or do you not consider abortion to be murder. SCOTUS decisions don't tell us anything about good and evil. See Dredd Scott and Plessey v. Ferguson.
3.) Raising capital gains and corporate income tax will choke off what economic activity remains in this country.
4.) Yeah, the stuff Harris hurled at judicial appointees was qualitatively different from the hearing-room demeanor of Cruz or Gowdy.