Why did I ever think that Kamala had a remote chance of overcoming USAmerica’s deep-seated misogynoir 🫠
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Oh, she was thisclose to calling him something very impolite. 😂
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I see posts going "Okay, I'll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO" and "omg if that's the best we can do I suppose I'll support it" and I'm like...
What do you people fucking WANT?
Let's run down how she's rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?
- ACLU = 93% on civil liberties
- AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions
- Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights
- League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism
- NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights
- NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)
- NEA = 100% on education
- Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights
In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we've got a very liberal, woman of color who's spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that's somehow...just barely tolerable.
So I ask again...what is that you're dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she's pretty constrained as to what's possible to do in this situation.
Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren't rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.
So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren't 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you...we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.
Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you're a straight white man and preferably rich. There's room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let's not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.
Every time I see/hear "Kamala the Cop" in leftist spaces, I want to scream. She campaigned on "Defund the Police" and "Maybe lets think about prison abolition/reform" in 2020. It wasn't that long ago.