The woman is on-record, multiple times, defending the necessity of slavery to the economy of California. She also defended 3-strikes laws that sent (mostly black) people away for life sentences on crimes that in other contexts wouldn't even warrant jail time.
You could maybe say about some prosecutors that they are just doing the job a crooked society gave them without thinking about the social structures or whatever. Kamala has literally said 'Our state needs bodies to work for free to maintain the current economic arrangement. Most of those bodies are black because of a law that permits us to punish them more harshly than whites. Both of these things are good and correct and I will use my position to defend them.'
It is kinda funny to think that she coulda been the sneering villain in that film if DuVernay wanted to go that route, and now she's being endorsed by her, but hey. "Show me a hero and I'll how you a bum."
I'll bet you a 25 dollar donation to the bail fund of your choice that she's on record defending 3 strikes and slave labor and has a massively disproportionate record trying black and brown vs white defendants. Unless you're just being a pedant, but that's not what you're doing.
I asked for a reference for the above quote. Seeing as how you did not provide one, I'm assuming the quote itself is BS and everything you say can be safely ignored.
Two years after it was signed into law, California's controversial “three strikes and you're out” law has resulted in an imprisonment rate for African Americans that is more than 13 times that of whites, according to a new study.
Under Prop. 66, eight felonies that now count as "serious or violent" - - and thus a strike -- will no longer be classified as such.
The reclassification of these crimes is one of the reasons California's district attorneys -- including local Democrats Tom Orloff of Alameda County, Jim Fox of San Mateo County and Kamala Harris of San Francisco -- strongly oppose Prop. 66.
great piece, jack. been struggling with the idea that, if biden/harris win, harris the cop is probably? the next dem nominee in 2024. & she probably has a good chance of losing to whatever fox news anchor decides to run. either way, saying goodbye to progress for another 4/8/12 years.
well what is your alternative? Harris isnt my choice. Biden isnt my choice. They got zero of my dollars or volunteer hours during this whole process but now they are who we are stuck with. So, now, they will get my money and time and i will yell at them constantly to be more lefty/progressive.
What else is there to do? Once trump steals the election ill be out in my 99.999% white rural, gun nut, wingnut, QAnon, 3 percenter town w/my sign in the town square and then ill probably be shot by my Real American neighbors and it will be called a "good" shoot by teh sheriff if anyone even cares by that point.
Why do you assume there must be a way for us to be 'saved'? Why would Harris and Biden listen to your yelling when they know you'll donate time and money regardless of any stance they take. Literally even if they raped someone?
When the challenger blew up, it recently came out, the cockpit was hardened to the point that the astronauts inside were very likely alive, and possibly conscious until it crashed down. At the height and speed they were going when it blew, they were in free fall for literally three minutes:
I guess I assumed you were asking what to do to make things better. The assumption that you had agency. The quotes were sort of meant to mock the concept that anything meaningful could be done.
The point is there is no point. There's nothing you can meaningfully do. You can vote for the rapist who segregated his housing and the guy who endorses sexualized torture of children (conversion therapy) or you can vote for the segregationist who raped a woman and the lady who put an embargo on sharing evidence of child rape with the victims who were trying to file civil suits.
Vote whoever, no one's going to stop you. Except maybe the federal government. But all you're doing is flipping switches on the console of the Challenger. Biden has threatened to fight people who wanted him to pull left and Kamala laughed at the idea at a fundraiser. This was during the primary when actions like that could conceivably advantage an opponent.
They'll fix nothing, just like Obama didn't rein in the banks or save anyone's houses, just like he didn't prosecute CIA torturers who now run the agency, just like he didn't end the wars or close Gitmo or dissolve DHS or ICE. Everything Bush created, Obama cemented. And I have my issues with the guy but there's no denying he was way to the left and had way more courage of convictions than Biden. That's more damning him with faint praise, but the fact remains that you should assume that literally everything Trump has created will be an inescapable part of the 'new normal' by the next election after this one, assuming one is held. You'd be nuts to believe otherwise.
gotcha - well no one hates obama more than me from the left and no one is more of a nihilist. But, since i am not yet ready to blow my head off a vote against trump is a vote for a (tiny bit) better society.
my actual plan is to leave this dumb country if trump holds office. Im guessing if hes still president next year he will then kick pence out, makes Ivanka VP. Then in 2024 shes just installed by fiat, then installs Jared as her VP and then we are basically Saudi Arabia meets Russia at that point.
Good luck with that. I've considered it myself. When do you suppose COVID will be under control enough Americans will be allowed to travel to other countries?
The way I've squared the circle is, a vote for a third party or a write in for 'none of the above' reduces the percentage of the total vote received by both the Republican and the Succ dem. I have quite a few races on my November ballot, its not just the presidential one for me unfortunately. It's not even a rounding error on the prez vote and, even the local city council cop-bootlicker won't know the difference, but in terms of 'what I can do', that seems like literally the most effective thing I can do, at the ballot box at least.
Dems always fight the tide of change - Obama spent tax money actively fighting off challenges to DOMA in court until literally Obergefell, if memory serves - but if enough people hit the streets and yell their heads of and change minds until 90% of America believes something to be an obvious moral truism, about ten years later Dems will cautiously endorse it. That's my bleak little ray of sunshine.
i don’t know. i don’t have a good alternative. i live in a swing state, so i have to vote for the lesser rapist and the cop to avoid electing the greater rapist and the evangelist. if i didn’t live in a swing state i would be voting for neither the democratic nor republican ticket and writing in a progressive candidate.
The most annoying factor from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd is that the nuance of holding your nose and voting for bad people dies with your vote. A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory as an approval of their "work" during the Trump Era and learn the wrong message, setting us up for future disaster when the next Republican monster wins POTUS.
A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory...
"This candidate is inevitable, we need to nominate him/her because a more left candidate will lose, and it will be your responsibility to vote for them to save us from this unprecedented disaster" Has literally never worked in a general election. Not in 2000. Or 2004. In 2008 it didn't even work in the primary and a Dem politician who was at least willing to lie to progressives, instead of telling them "fuck you you'll vote for me anyway and like it" won, and there was a massive, unprecedented turnout. Then they immediately returned to VBNMW in 2016 and it failed.
Now we're banging our head against the same brick wall and hoping that a politician who literally won against exactly this attack, is going to somehow lose.
As though Trump voters didn't pretend they didn't want to vote for Trump, as though polls didn't show the leftist up, as though open contempt (I have no sympathy for millenials, don't vote for me if you believe Tara Reade, not even campaigning in some states, Laughing at the idea of free college) for their own base didn't erode turnout. As though there isn't a pandemic that is going to keep people home on election except for the lunatics who think it's made up who, coincidentally, all vote for one party. As though, shit, I dunno, voting is going to be even harder for poor people who already struggle to get to the polls on a workday and almost uniformly vote for the other party.
I saw that. A friend who was a journalism major and works in a Press Freedom NGO abroad was asking why it was necessary for a platform the size of the intercept to nuke a college dems group from orbit and I told him to watch the movie Election. Nits make lice.
And in any case, even assuming this kid isn't brought into the fold as a reliable bagman, even assuming his career is fucked before it starts, these soulless Mayo Pete freaks are like the hydra. Two more will spring from his charred stump.
Knowing that we have, conservatively, 30 more years of Mayor Pete and countless dorks following his template makes me think that the accelerationists have a point.
Talking to a friend about the GOP whining about 'whose statue is next, George Washington?' I went back and looked up the Shay and Whiskey Rebellions, because I know I was taught about them multiple times in multiple grades' history classses, but knew not one detail about why.
Turns out the one was over banks and lenders reposessing people's farms and homes. The 'rebels' blocked courthouses to prevent evictions. Like we're literally doing in New Orleans now. The other was a regressive tax meant to raise money off poorer farmers in the 'west' (like, Western PA and Ohio at that point) while letting the wealthier merchants and farmers back east skate. It also had the effect of advantaging wealthier eastern farmers, letting them buy up and buy out those poorer farmers.
Like, George Washington's first acts as president were essentially murdering Occupy/anti-eviction protestors. They even passed a law preventing anyone sympathetic to the Shays rebellion from running for office to prevent a reckoning like BLM folks are trying to make happen running in Ferguson elections.
All this is to say, I've come around on accelerationism. Ain't shit gonna change in this country. Lets start over with a new one.
It's also important to note that critiquing powerful people, both during elections and while in office, may superficially align with reactionaries but on a deeper level has to be done. A lot of the more moderate anti-war movement went away in 2009 when Obama took office, though that administration never pulled out of Afghanistan and prosecuted wars in many different countries, including blowing up a DWB hospital. Republicans would occasionally cynically take potshots at his foreign policy, and the sentiment was to rally around the President from bad-faith attacks.
But it was still horrific foreign policy, and those that remained mobilized in the anti-war movement were right- from his candidacy through the presidency, President Obama needed to be held to account for continuing the post-9/11 open-ended War on Terror.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" turns into "Defend Blue No Matter What" when in office. Actually demanding accountability isn't as common as it needs to be. I'm from northern California, I first saw Kamala Harris in person in 2011 when she wasn't even Attorney General yet. There's the nativist and misogynistic attacks she's already facing, but there's also a record that's long, full of bad shit just like Biden's record is. You can't pull back entirely just because she's getting hammered for bad reasons by the Trumpists.
"We mustn't question them, its too important to win the election, hold them accountable once in office!"
"Holding elected officials accountable is a distraction, and the voters should figure it out in the next election!"
And before the libs can 'well actually' me, yea. That's Pelosi ducking her responsibilities against Trump, a massively unpopular, blatantly criminal figurehead for the other party.
So they'll probably be real good about holding their own people's feet to the fire. They'd never stand for a Dem president locking kids in cages away from their families or looking the other way while banks and housing lenders commit open fraud to confiscate almost all black wealth, Dem congresses voting to gut the post office or sell out unions, or ignore the military strafing MSF hospitals or the CIA killing American children because somehow, when accountability means embarrassing their own people, THAT'S when they find their backbone and moral clarity. We're really gonna dig into all the people corroborating Tara Reade and all the Kamala's refusal to share evidence with the victims of sex abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church once they're governing.
“Disrespectful to our elders” is all you need to read to cut to the heart of her argument. It’s the Millennials and Gen Z’ers who should be respected as the generations who have both given the most and have the least. If Ava DuVernay’s health insurance was connected to her job and then lost that job, she would likely feel the urgency that drives younger generations to demand more.
So Ava DuVernay thinks that COVID-19 is going to just vanish when we've elected a new President? Does she assume Biden and Harris are going to massively fund a contact-tracing effort, make treatment and quarantining compatible with economic survival, and roll out faster free testing on a large scale? Because if they don't do those things, the disease is not going to stop spreading, and they have specifically said they do not want to do step 2, which will lead to sick people continuing to go to work and probably spread the disease.
The pandemic will stop when action is collectively taken to stop it. If Donald Trump rolled out the above steps, the pandemic would end. Donald Trump could still be a terrible asshole, but the pandemic would end. You can make the case he won't do those things under any conditions, because he's a terrible asshole, but if someone who you thought was not a terrible asshole took inadequate steps to stop the pandemic, then the pandemic is going to keep going. Reality is not shaped by the inherent moral quality of our politicians. It's shaped by what our politicians do.
I can’t help but think, Jack, that you haven’t fallen into the rhetorical trap set by Republicans. Your opinions are valid - but the timing of them is in reaction to a bad-faith argument that seeks to devalue and demoralize our people on the middle>left.
Duvernay purports now is not the time - and it sure as hell isn’t! You want a more progressive policy plank? If Biden wins in the fall, raise hell as he builds his transition team and cabinet and starts signaling his initial priorities.
The next 90 days will be full of the worst lies Trump can tell, and our best response cannot be to agree with some minor thrust of what he is saying, but. Sure, we need a better path forward for impoverished Millenials and Z’ers! But let’s get them to vote before we say “Biden is likely to do nothing for you!”
If the party has enough momentum on the progressive side they will have no choice but to incorporate some of those ideas. At the end of the day, Biden and Harris are pollsters that will do whatever it takes to stay in power.
Totally wild, to me, to see the director of 13TH give this much of a pass to Kamala Harris.
The woman is on-record, multiple times, defending the necessity of slavery to the economy of California. She also defended 3-strikes laws that sent (mostly black) people away for life sentences on crimes that in other contexts wouldn't even warrant jail time.
You could maybe say about some prosecutors that they are just doing the job a crooked society gave them without thinking about the social structures or whatever. Kamala has literally said 'Our state needs bodies to work for free to maintain the current economic arrangement. Most of those bodies are black because of a law that permits us to punish them more harshly than whites. Both of these things are good and correct and I will use my position to defend them.'
It is kinda funny to think that she coulda been the sneering villain in that film if DuVernay wanted to go that route, and now she's being endorsed by her, but hey. "Show me a hero and I'll how you a bum."
You need to provide a reference for that quote. I can't find one and it sounds extremely made up.
I'll bet you a 25 dollar donation to the bail fund of your choice that she's on record defending 3 strikes and slave labor and has a massively disproportionate record trying black and brown vs white defendants. Unless you're just being a pedant, but that's not what you're doing.
I asked for a reference for the above quote. Seeing as how you did not provide one, I'm assuming the quote itself is BS and everything you say can be safely ignored.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-05-mn-43270-story.html#:~:text=Two%20years%20after%20it%20was,according%20to%20a%20new%20study.
Two years after it was signed into law, California's controversial “three strikes and you're out” law has resulted in an imprisonment rate for African Americans that is more than 13 times that of whites, according to a new study.
https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Why-3-strikes-needs-reform-2724213.php
Under Prop. 66, eight felonies that now count as "serious or violent" - - and thus a strike -- will no longer be classified as such.
The reclassification of these crimes is one of the reasons California's district attorneys -- including local Democrats Tom Orloff of Alameda County, Jim Fox of San Mateo County and Kamala Harris of San Francisco -- strongly oppose Prop. 66.
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061004553
As California attorney general, Kamala Harris led a team that fought to keep more people imprisoned so they could fight wildfires.
Piss off pedant. Go kiss a cop.
great piece, jack. been struggling with the idea that, if biden/harris win, harris the cop is probably? the next dem nominee in 2024. & she probably has a good chance of losing to whatever fox news anchor decides to run. either way, saying goodbye to progress for another 4/8/12 years.
well what is your alternative? Harris isnt my choice. Biden isnt my choice. They got zero of my dollars or volunteer hours during this whole process but now they are who we are stuck with. So, now, they will get my money and time and i will yell at them constantly to be more lefty/progressive.
What else is there to do? Once trump steals the election ill be out in my 99.999% white rural, gun nut, wingnut, QAnon, 3 percenter town w/my sign in the town square and then ill probably be shot by my Real American neighbors and it will be called a "good" shoot by teh sheriff if anyone even cares by that point.
Again, what else are we to do?
Why do you assume there must be a way for us to be 'saved'? Why would Harris and Biden listen to your yelling when they know you'll donate time and money regardless of any stance they take. Literally even if they raped someone?
When the challenger blew up, it recently came out, the cockpit was hardened to the point that the astronauts inside were very likely alive, and possibly conscious until it crashed down. At the height and speed they were going when it blew, they were in free fall for literally three minutes:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078062/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/chapter-eternity-descent/
What were they to do?
where do i use the word saved? whats your point?
I guess I assumed you were asking what to do to make things better. The assumption that you had agency. The quotes were sort of meant to mock the concept that anything meaningful could be done.
The point is there is no point. There's nothing you can meaningfully do. You can vote for the rapist who segregated his housing and the guy who endorses sexualized torture of children (conversion therapy) or you can vote for the segregationist who raped a woman and the lady who put an embargo on sharing evidence of child rape with the victims who were trying to file civil suits.
Vote whoever, no one's going to stop you. Except maybe the federal government. But all you're doing is flipping switches on the console of the Challenger. Biden has threatened to fight people who wanted him to pull left and Kamala laughed at the idea at a fundraiser. This was during the primary when actions like that could conceivably advantage an opponent.
They'll fix nothing, just like Obama didn't rein in the banks or save anyone's houses, just like he didn't prosecute CIA torturers who now run the agency, just like he didn't end the wars or close Gitmo or dissolve DHS or ICE. Everything Bush created, Obama cemented. And I have my issues with the guy but there's no denying he was way to the left and had way more courage of convictions than Biden. That's more damning him with faint praise, but the fact remains that you should assume that literally everything Trump has created will be an inescapable part of the 'new normal' by the next election after this one, assuming one is held. You'd be nuts to believe otherwise.
gotcha - well no one hates obama more than me from the left and no one is more of a nihilist. But, since i am not yet ready to blow my head off a vote against trump is a vote for a (tiny bit) better society.
my actual plan is to leave this dumb country if trump holds office. Im guessing if hes still president next year he will then kick pence out, makes Ivanka VP. Then in 2024 shes just installed by fiat, then installs Jared as her VP and then we are basically Saudi Arabia meets Russia at that point.
Good luck with that. I've considered it myself. When do you suppose COVID will be under control enough Americans will be allowed to travel to other countries?
The way I've squared the circle is, a vote for a third party or a write in for 'none of the above' reduces the percentage of the total vote received by both the Republican and the Succ dem. I have quite a few races on my November ballot, its not just the presidential one for me unfortunately. It's not even a rounding error on the prez vote and, even the local city council cop-bootlicker won't know the difference, but in terms of 'what I can do', that seems like literally the most effective thing I can do, at the ballot box at least.
Dems always fight the tide of change - Obama spent tax money actively fighting off challenges to DOMA in court until literally Obergefell, if memory serves - but if enough people hit the streets and yell their heads of and change minds until 90% of America believes something to be an obvious moral truism, about ten years later Dems will cautiously endorse it. That's my bleak little ray of sunshine.
i don’t know. i don’t have a good alternative. i live in a swing state, so i have to vote for the lesser rapist and the cop to avoid electing the greater rapist and the evangelist. if i didn’t live in a swing state i would be voting for neither the democratic nor republican ticket and writing in a progressive candidate.
The most annoying factor from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd is that the nuance of holding your nose and voting for bad people dies with your vote. A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory as an approval of their "work" during the Trump Era and learn the wrong message, setting us up for future disaster when the next Republican monster wins POTUS.
A lot of mainstream Democrats will see a sweeping Biden victory...
"This candidate is inevitable, we need to nominate him/her because a more left candidate will lose, and it will be your responsibility to vote for them to save us from this unprecedented disaster" Has literally never worked in a general election. Not in 2000. Or 2004. In 2008 it didn't even work in the primary and a Dem politician who was at least willing to lie to progressives, instead of telling them "fuck you you'll vote for me anyway and like it" won, and there was a massive, unprecedented turnout. Then they immediately returned to VBNMW in 2016 and it failed.
Now we're banging our head against the same brick wall and hoping that a politician who literally won against exactly this attack, is going to somehow lose.
https://twitter.com/coherentstates/status/1293609254545502211
As though Trump voters didn't pretend they didn't want to vote for Trump, as though polls didn't show the leftist up, as though open contempt (I have no sympathy for millenials, don't vote for me if you believe Tara Reade, not even campaigning in some states, Laughing at the idea of free college) for their own base didn't erode turnout. As though there isn't a pandemic that is going to keep people home on election except for the lunatics who think it's made up who, coincidentally, all vote for one party. As though, shit, I dunno, voting is going to be even harder for poor people who already struggle to get to the polls on a workday and almost uniformly vote for the other party.
This is who gets rewarded when you VNBMW:
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/
I saw that. A friend who was a journalism major and works in a Press Freedom NGO abroad was asking why it was necessary for a platform the size of the intercept to nuke a college dems group from orbit and I told him to watch the movie Election. Nits make lice.
And in any case, even assuming this kid isn't brought into the fold as a reliable bagman, even assuming his career is fucked before it starts, these soulless Mayo Pete freaks are like the hydra. Two more will spring from his charred stump.
Knowing that we have, conservatively, 30 more years of Mayor Pete and countless dorks following his template makes me think that the accelerationists have a point.
Talking to a friend about the GOP whining about 'whose statue is next, George Washington?' I went back and looked up the Shay and Whiskey Rebellions, because I know I was taught about them multiple times in multiple grades' history classses, but knew not one detail about why.
Turns out the one was over banks and lenders reposessing people's farms and homes. The 'rebels' blocked courthouses to prevent evictions. Like we're literally doing in New Orleans now. The other was a regressive tax meant to raise money off poorer farmers in the 'west' (like, Western PA and Ohio at that point) while letting the wealthier merchants and farmers back east skate. It also had the effect of advantaging wealthier eastern farmers, letting them buy up and buy out those poorer farmers.
Like, George Washington's first acts as president were essentially murdering Occupy/anti-eviction protestors. They even passed a law preventing anyone sympathetic to the Shays rebellion from running for office to prevent a reckoning like BLM folks are trying to make happen running in Ferguson elections.
All this is to say, I've come around on accelerationism. Ain't shit gonna change in this country. Lets start over with a new one.
How bleak and accurate.
It's also important to note that critiquing powerful people, both during elections and while in office, may superficially align with reactionaries but on a deeper level has to be done. A lot of the more moderate anti-war movement went away in 2009 when Obama took office, though that administration never pulled out of Afghanistan and prosecuted wars in many different countries, including blowing up a DWB hospital. Republicans would occasionally cynically take potshots at his foreign policy, and the sentiment was to rally around the President from bad-faith attacks.
But it was still horrific foreign policy, and those that remained mobilized in the anti-war movement were right- from his candidacy through the presidency, President Obama needed to be held to account for continuing the post-9/11 open-ended War on Terror.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" turns into "Defend Blue No Matter What" when in office. Actually demanding accountability isn't as common as it needs to be. I'm from northern California, I first saw Kamala Harris in person in 2011 when she wasn't even Attorney General yet. There's the nativist and misogynistic attacks she's already facing, but there's also a record that's long, full of bad shit just like Biden's record is. You can't pull back entirely just because she's getting hammered for bad reasons by the Trumpists.
Another good argument from another ex-gawkerite on the other side of that coin. They get you coming and going.
https://hmmdaily.com/2019/03/12/elections-are-no-substitute-for-democracy/
"We mustn't question them, its too important to win the election, hold them accountable once in office!"
"Holding elected officials accountable is a distraction, and the voters should figure it out in the next election!"
And before the libs can 'well actually' me, yea. That's Pelosi ducking her responsibilities against Trump, a massively unpopular, blatantly criminal figurehead for the other party.
So they'll probably be real good about holding their own people's feet to the fire. They'd never stand for a Dem president locking kids in cages away from their families or looking the other way while banks and housing lenders commit open fraud to confiscate almost all black wealth, Dem congresses voting to gut the post office or sell out unions, or ignore the military strafing MSF hospitals or the CIA killing American children because somehow, when accountability means embarrassing their own people, THAT'S when they find their backbone and moral clarity. We're really gonna dig into all the people corroborating Tara Reade and all the Kamala's refusal to share evidence with the victims of sex abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church once they're governing.
“Disrespectful to our elders” is all you need to read to cut to the heart of her argument. It’s the Millennials and Gen Z’ers who should be respected as the generations who have both given the most and have the least. If Ava DuVernay’s health insurance was connected to her job and then lost that job, she would likely feel the urgency that drives younger generations to demand more.
So Ava DuVernay thinks that COVID-19 is going to just vanish when we've elected a new President? Does she assume Biden and Harris are going to massively fund a contact-tracing effort, make treatment and quarantining compatible with economic survival, and roll out faster free testing on a large scale? Because if they don't do those things, the disease is not going to stop spreading, and they have specifically said they do not want to do step 2, which will lead to sick people continuing to go to work and probably spread the disease.
The pandemic will stop when action is collectively taken to stop it. If Donald Trump rolled out the above steps, the pandemic would end. Donald Trump could still be a terrible asshole, but the pandemic would end. You can make the case he won't do those things under any conditions, because he's a terrible asshole, but if someone who you thought was not a terrible asshole took inadequate steps to stop the pandemic, then the pandemic is going to keep going. Reality is not shaped by the inherent moral quality of our politicians. It's shaped by what our politicians do.
I can’t help but think, Jack, that you haven’t fallen into the rhetorical trap set by Republicans. Your opinions are valid - but the timing of them is in reaction to a bad-faith argument that seeks to devalue and demoralize our people on the middle>left.
Duvernay purports now is not the time - and it sure as hell isn’t! You want a more progressive policy plank? If Biden wins in the fall, raise hell as he builds his transition team and cabinet and starts signaling his initial priorities.
The next 90 days will be full of the worst lies Trump can tell, and our best response cannot be to agree with some minor thrust of what he is saying, but. Sure, we need a better path forward for impoverished Millenials and Z’ers! But let’s get them to vote before we say “Biden is likely to do nothing for you!”
If the party has enough momentum on the progressive side they will have no choice but to incorporate some of those ideas. At the end of the day, Biden and Harris are pollsters that will do whatever it takes to stay in power.