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Kamala Harris for Pres

Elizah Huge said:
I do like Medicare for all. This reminded me of a conversation I had with someone one time. I barely remember it but they were super passionate against it. Basically asking how we’d pay for it or something? I’m for helping people in need and people shouldn’t go into debt because of medical issues. Is that a hot take?
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Our media is to blame for this. Anytime a policy focused on helping the poors is being discussed, mainstream media, most democrats and all the republicans will have the same smoke for it. "How are we going to pay for this?"

Huge increases in the defense budget in the form of contracts with the Military Industrial Complex? ...(crickets). Subsidies for corporations? Tax Cuts? Always a good idea, push it through.
 
Safetydan said:
Our media is to blame for this. Anytime a policy focused on helping the poors is being discussed, mainstream media, most democrats and all the republicans will have the same smoke for it. "How are we going to pay for this?"

Huge increases in the defense budget in the form of contracts with the Military Industrial Complex? ...(crickets). Subsidies for corporations? Tax Cuts? Always a good idea, push it through.
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It is ignored because everyone proposing it is unserious. The amount we spend on national defense is less then what we spend on social security, less that we spend on servicing the national debt, less than we already spend on healthcare, and less than we spend on education. Even if you cut defense spending to zero, it still wouldn't cover what you are talking about. Hiking the tax rate won't get there. No country on earth pays as much per person in healthcare as we do. The ONLY thing that could come close is total deregulation of the industry to massively increase quantity of service providers, but you and everyone wanting socialized, single payer, nationalized, M4A, whatever, won't go there. Crickets is the appropriate response if you aren't willing to do what is necessary to accomplish what you say you want.
 
str8line said:
This isn't about Trump, it's about fielding the candidate who has the best chance to win. We can't afford to **** this up.
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I'm terrified that she blows it in the debate and we end up with dictator Trump going full-tilt. It's so obvious she can't think on her feet. And that's why I thought there was plenty of time for a condensed primary to let the public decide. Whose decision was it to put Kamala in this position? We know it wasn't the Obama's since they held off on supporting her. Was it Pelosi?
 
str8line said:
I'm terrified that she blows it in the debate and we end up with dictator Trump going full-tilt. It's so obvious she can't think on her feet. And that's why I thought there was plenty of time for a condensed primary to let the public decide. Whose decision was it to put Kamala in this position? We know it wasn't the Obama's since they held off on supporting her. Was it Pelosi?
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Please explain how you would organize 50 states + territories, etc, to schedule and run primary elections, and still give enough time for a primary campaign. Biden dropped out on 7/21, final names for the ballot were due in Ohio on 8/7. That's only 2 1/2 weeks. Could it have been done in that time?
 
gandalfe said:
Please explain how you would organize 50 states + territories, etc, to schedule and run primary elections, and still give enough time for a primary campaign. Biden dropped out on 7/21, final names for the ballot were due in Ohio on 8/7. That's only 2 1/2 weeks. Could it have been done in that time?
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Good point. But it just seems so weird that the candidate was chosen for us without public input.
 
str8line said:
Good point. But it just seems so weird that the candidate was chosen for us without public input.
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It's a bit weird from a modern perspective, but that used to just be the way it was until, I believe, the 1972 election? They were chosen by the party leaders at the convention.

And, also, it was kind of the natural succession. Would I have preferred he had stepped away 3 months earlier? Sure, then we could have had a real primary. But the reality is that there just wasn't time.
 
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