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[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this is just incorrect on so many levels.

first off: if you consistently vote for a candidate no matter what they do then they can write you off.

No politician is going to pay a group that plays hard to get much heed.

imagine thinking drawing a line at 'genocide' is playing hard to get. my god the bar is so low. no wonder we dont have any fucking working class rights. thanks, you definitely know what your doing.

There’s a reason causes championed by Black women always feature fairly heavily in the Democratic Party platform.

yes. do tell. how exactly have the democrats have targetted black women issues specifically? go on I'll wait.

The real issue is democrats get funding from the 1% and are unwilling to promote worker rights. that's why they write off the left base issues. fortunately for them the left has been bolstering them regardless every election for decades despite this because republicans would literally murder people for being different. And that generally continues, even right now with harris.

If you look at the policies from harris' campaign and compare it to 2016/2020.

  • no healthcare reform mostly just give aways to insurance companies through tax credits.
  • no minimum wage increase.
  • wont commit to keeping kahn the most effective FTC chair in more than 4 decades.
  • wont commit to supporting striking workers.
  • no mandated PTO/Sick leave for workers.

seems more corporate friendly than worker friendly to me. then add in a genocide on top and completely dismissing a minority group because they are inconvenient and here we are.

What left wing people are really telling you:

  • vote for what you think is best. If you're in a safe state go wild on third party candidates. swing state? probably better off w/ harris.
  • let your reps know that your vote is at risk if the genocide continues post election. and then follow through in the next cycle.
[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

A lot of what you're listing off is more a symptom of Harris entering the race so late. She's barely had the time to put together a campaign, let alone flesh out a real policy platform. That usually takes a long time, especially given that she has to show some level of independence from Biden while also

no healthcare reform mostly just give aways to insurance companies through tax credits.

What type of healthcare reform are you referring to? I don't think that anything terribly drastic is really going to happen within the foreseeable future. The Democrats burned a 60-40 majority in the Senate just to get the ACA, a relatively modest reform, through Congress. Something like single payer does poll well... until you remind people that there's no free lunch.

no minimum wage increase

She supports an increase to $15/hour, but that was pretty recent.

wont commit to keeping kahn the most effective FTC chair in more than 4 decades.

I won't defend her here, she should have the courage to tell her tech allies that she's not going to topple Kahn.

wont commit to supporting striking workers.

I'm not exactly sure what this means. The Biden administration has strengthened labor's hand on the NLRB, which marked a significant difference from the Trump administration. Are you referring to the railroad strike of 2022?

no mandated PTO/Sick leave for workers.

What left wing people are really telling you:

I would be fine if that was what everyone was actually saying, but I hear a lot of people encouraging not voting or voting third party this cycle.

let your reps know that your vote is at risk if the genocide continues post election. and then follow through in the next cycle.

Politicians are trying to paste together a winning coalition. That's why you'll see Kamala's platform roughly representing the center-left, that is a winning platform for a general election. The problem with having a hard line non-mainstream view on something like the Israel-Palestine conflict is that playing hard to get will only get you so far. If your opinion isn't supported by the majority, it's very, very hard to get a politician's support.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Tim Walz for one has legislated paid leave. If Walz has half the power under Harris' governing as people seem to believe Harris has under Biden I'd fully expect paid leave out of the Harris Walz admin.

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