Still waiting for an answer. Anyone can participate.
I'll take a gander.
How do you know she did not address those concerns? Her platform was bring back American jobs, lift up the middle class with several concrete programs to do that. Address price gouging.
She did not talk about issues at first at all. Remember her brat summer phase?
Kamala Harris is running on vibes
This is from late August, a month after she took over.
Economist said:
The vibe shift is clearly working its magic. Her smile is “contagious”, said Emily Kostielney, a DNC volunteer in charge of compost education. “She’s somebody that you’d love to grab lunch with, right? And have a great conversation about whatever, and you’re not going to leave feeling defeated and doom and gloom.” Dawn Hucklebridge, a campaigner for paid family leave, describes her “laughter and joy and celebration”. The news of her candidacy “thrilled” her in the way that the release of a new Beyoncé album does.
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Being all things to all people is not a bad quality in a politician. The more votes you get, the more likely you are to win. But it does leave one open to accusations of opportunism. Harris has no clear foreign policy and has only just begun to sketch, in the broadest strokes, her approach to the economy. Vance has called her “a fundamentally fake person” because she has disavowed positions she took on fracking and immigration during the Democratic primary in 2020. (His own well-publicised volte-faces may have undermined his credibility as a messenger.)
For the moment, Harris fans aren’t bothered by the vagueness of her agenda. Okamoto, turning to her 21-year-old sister Issa, asked, “Does it matter to her what the specifics of the policies are, or that it’s just her or Trump?”
As to "price gouging", that is very hard to define. Is it price gouging if price increases as a response to a disequilibrium between supply and demand? Would not controlling the price in such a case perpetuate the disequilibrium and cause shortages?
Take the classic example of gas shortages after a hurricane shuts down Gulf refineries, as has happened several times in the last couple of decades. One major instance in Atlanta that I remember well. Is it not better to let price double and even triple for a short time, meaning that only people who really need to get around will buy gas, conserving the scarce resource until supply can be reestablished? Or is it better to prevent retailers - under pain of civil or even criminal penalties - to increase prices resulting in demand not going down, and even increasing, since many people are then encouraged to hoard?
Did you attend her rallies or listen to her speeches? Or did you make your conclusion based on the tiny snippets of her speeches shown on the news?
Personally, I did watch the debate, but did not watch full speeches, or attend any rallies.
How can you rationalize a person out of a position they didn't rationalize themselves into? "Bacon is a buck more at the grocery store so I vote to destroy democracy."
Why do you think that those who voted for Trump think that he will destroy democracy?
Harris ran a very good standard campaign.
That (and lines like this) is the crux of the matter. This is what I was objecting to.
There was nothing standard about her campaign. She was thrust into it in late July, because Biden dithered too much about whether to stay in the race or bow out. That much is not her fault. But she did rely too much on "vibes" and celebrities, especially initially.
Trump ran a shit show. People preferred the shit show. They liked the insults and the hate. They liked and believed the lies. They liked the rejection of science and facts.
Except they didn't. He lost votes compared to last time ran.
Kamala Harris lost this election far more than Trump won it.
So please. Do tell us all how you counter that sort of attitude? How do you tell someone they are stupid and believe in bullshit without insulting them? I'm all ears.
Maybe start by not ascribing evil motives to them, like you did above when you wrote that they deliberately voted to end democracy.
