I find it ironic that Kamala Harris accuses others of being "missing from the resistance", when she's been completely silent -- at least, right up until the moment when she had a book to sell.
The Democratic Party has a massive leadership crisis -- and the failure of people like Harris to use her position to help organize resistance to Trump is just one example of it.
The Democratic Party as a generational transition problem. The old folks did their time; much of what they did was good in its time. But we need a new generation to take hold and lead. (FWIW, I'm 78 -- but I get that I have to be replaced even in the Resistance.)
its not just "generational" -- Two of the three highest ranking Dems are part of the "next generation of leaders". Jeffries (55 yo) is an absolute disaster as House Minority leader, and Martin (52 yo) at the DNC is so worthless he spent more time and energy focussed on David Hogg than on Donald Trump when Hogg announced he would be funding primary challengers to ineffective incumbent Dems in safe seats.
It’s easy to criticize, like, why didn’t people like you organize better to win the presidential election? Kamala gave her all, what did you do to win?
I chose not to vote for any candidate for President, because I will never empower anyone who supports genocide -- there is no "lesser of two genocidels" or "genocide lite".
and Harris was utterly incompetent as a candidate. How stupid do you have to be to tell Americans that you would do NOTHING differently from an incumbent whom 56% of Americans (and 59% of voters, according to exit polls) disapproved of. Voters wanted change, and she offered only more of the same -- and that is whiy she lost. (not because a tiny group of people like me refused to support a pro-genocide candidate).
Kamala was not a pro-genocide candidate. She had her own ideas and stated them clearly during her campaign, but at the time she was still the vice president. A vice president has to work for the president, not work to fulfill their own ambitions. That put her at a disadvantage. When Hubert Humphrey advised President Johnson to get out of Viet Nam, Johnson cut him out of the loop from then on. At least Humphrey tried, he was right about Viet Nam, but a vice president can’t get in a fight with his boss. (Dereliction of Duty, H.R. McMaster).
Yes, we should plan boycotts of companies cooperating with Trump. Yes, we should be setting the stage for a general strike.
As for what to do about troops in cities, we need court rulings we can point to that show that the orders for those troops were illegal, and we need to let military commanders at all levels know that if they continue to obey orders that have been found illegal by a court, they will be criminally prosecuted. And then we need to do it, even if we can't do it until 2029.
Harris refused to even meet with Palestinian families to discuss the mere possibility of an arms embargo. When asked what the greatest threat to US security was, she said Iran (Iran is NOT a major threat to the US, it is a threat to Israel, however). And she literally said there was nothing she would have done differently from Biden -- and Biden was clearly okay with Netanyahu's genocidal campaign.
IOW, at NO POINT did she differentiate herself from Biden's unconditional support of the mass murder of Gazans, including HUNDREDS of infants....
I want to help but I don’t have any money to donate. But I can pray. I am praying against the Christian Nationalists like Charlie Kirk. Any person making all that money for himself off the gospels is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, like Jesus warned us about.
Read her book, watch her interview with Rachel Maddow, maybe you will change your mind. I once voted for Ralph Nader, and that election got us George W. Bush. Mea culpa!
I find it ironic that Kamala Harris accuses others of being "missing from the resistance", when she's been completely silent -- at least, right up until the moment when she had a book to sell.
The Democratic Party has a massive leadership crisis -- and the failure of people like Harris to use her position to help organize resistance to Trump is just one example of it.
The Democratic Party as a generational transition problem. The old folks did their time; much of what they did was good in its time. But we need a new generation to take hold and lead. (FWIW, I'm 78 -- but I get that I have to be replaced even in the Resistance.)
its not just "generational" -- Two of the three highest ranking Dems are part of the "next generation of leaders". Jeffries (55 yo) is an absolute disaster as House Minority leader, and Martin (52 yo) at the DNC is so worthless he spent more time and energy focussed on David Hogg than on Donald Trump when Hogg announced he would be funding primary challengers to ineffective incumbent Dems in safe seats.
It’s easy to criticize, like, why didn’t people like you organize better to win the presidential election? Kamala gave her all, what did you do to win?
I chose not to vote for any candidate for President, because I will never empower anyone who supports genocide -- there is no "lesser of two genocidels" or "genocide lite".
and Harris was utterly incompetent as a candidate. How stupid do you have to be to tell Americans that you would do NOTHING differently from an incumbent whom 56% of Americans (and 59% of voters, according to exit polls) disapproved of. Voters wanted change, and she offered only more of the same -- and that is whiy she lost. (not because a tiny group of people like me refused to support a pro-genocide candidate).
Kamala was not a pro-genocide candidate. She had her own ideas and stated them clearly during her campaign, but at the time she was still the vice president. A vice president has to work for the president, not work to fulfill their own ambitions. That put her at a disadvantage. When Hubert Humphrey advised President Johnson to get out of Viet Nam, Johnson cut him out of the loop from then on. At least Humphrey tried, he was right about Viet Nam, but a vice president can’t get in a fight with his boss. (Dereliction of Duty, H.R. McMaster).
Yes, we should plan boycotts of companies cooperating with Trump. Yes, we should be setting the stage for a general strike.
As for what to do about troops in cities, we need court rulings we can point to that show that the orders for those troops were illegal, and we need to let military commanders at all levels know that if they continue to obey orders that have been found illegal by a court, they will be criminally prosecuted. And then we need to do it, even if we can't do it until 2029.
I disagree.
Harris refused to even meet with Palestinian families to discuss the mere possibility of an arms embargo. When asked what the greatest threat to US security was, she said Iran (Iran is NOT a major threat to the US, it is a threat to Israel, however). And she literally said there was nothing she would have done differently from Biden -- and Biden was clearly okay with Netanyahu's genocidal campaign.
IOW, at NO POINT did she differentiate herself from Biden's unconditional support of the mass murder of Gazans, including HUNDREDS of infants....
I want to help but I don’t have any money to donate. But I can pray. I am praying against the Christian Nationalists like Charlie Kirk. Any person making all that money for himself off the gospels is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, like Jesus warned us about.
Read her book, watch her interview with Rachel Maddow, maybe you will change your mind. I once voted for Ralph Nader, and that election got us George W. Bush. Mea culpa!