I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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We all know that the GOP are horrendous and will see this as a green flag to continue their looting of our country and the exploitation of the 99.9%
But I hope the Dems are taking a good hard look at themselves as well. They relied too heavily on the Not-Trump line. They aggressively courted borderline Reps, but took Progressives for granted. They correctly leveraged women's healthcare and reproductive freedom, but openly mocked those concerned about Netanyahu. They highlighted the stock market as an indication of a booming economy, but pointedly ignored sharp increases in credit card debt and predatory interest rates. They did a lot of good for a lot of people, but they refused to go after the rot in the center that voters were focused on: grotesque tax breaks, privatized profits with subsidized losses, the suppressed minimum wage, health care and insurance costs, food prices, and housing inaccessibility. All of these have corporate greed and market manipulation at their core.
Biden accomplished great things for America, and deserves full credit for his hard work. But he wasn't perfect. And that's ok. Harris missed the opportunity to be distinct from Biden when she said she wouldn't have done anything differently. That deeply hurt her chances, because voters were signaling very strongly that they wanted something different, not more of the same with a younger face. And they wanted different so badly, that they were willing to let a proven disaster have a second chance.
Personally, I think the Dems squandered their chances when they snubbed Warren and Sanders in 2016. They didn't even try to hide the fact that they were stacking the deck for Hillary's nomination. I think Hillary would have made a fantastic president - but by denying her the chance to square up on her own against a worthy challenger, by not letting her policies face a fair comparison with Bernie's, they completely undermined her credibility and disillusioned progressives. They're paying the price now with a fractured party that acts like it's more beholden to their high-end donors (same as Reps) than the people it claims to represent.
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