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I'm not American but I get the impression the left hates her because she's a fairly right wing neoliberal?
When Biden was first elected, I saw one of those "what you order from Wish vs what you get" memes about this.
Had Bernie Sanders & AOC on the "expectation" side and Biden & Harris on the "reality" side.
Doesn't help that she was a prosecutor in California during three strikes. She's basically a cop.
Ah, that's right. I had never heard of her until the US election and I remember looking her up and being a little dismayed.
It's cray how the right screams that Biden is extremely left while he's center at BEST. Just shows how far they continue to shift right. I mean hell, some of them stopped watching Fox "news" because it became too "liberal" for their taste. That should tell you a whole lot.
It’s not crazy at all. They want the social expectation of what “far left” is to get established at Biden as a baseline. So they’re going to tie that label as much as they can so that when actual progressives put out a platform they’re seen as completely insane and non-viable despite the rest of the developed world doing it for decades.
I'm more on the opinion that any VP that bleeds will be hated.
Maybe not by the same people, though?
Where I live, we have had three female Prime Ministers - at one point both main political parties were led by women. I hated one of them because she cut welfare for single mothers, cut hospital funding, cut school funding, etc etc.
She is a strong black woman. That is reason enough for people. They will come up with other reasons, just like Hillary. You will hear a lot of “I will vote for a woman. Just notmthat woman.” Or, “I just don’t like her.” It’s all bullshit. They don’t want to promote a woman.
Yep, they’re here in the comments calling her a cop and a neoliberal. The bar a woman has to clear (and a Black woman at that) to be taken seriously is insane.
“I would vote for a woman. Just not that woman.”
I've been hearing that song for decades now. By a sheer coincidence, that woman somehow always happens to be the woman with the best shot of running for president on a Democratic ticket.
She does not have a shot at running for president lmao.
Her last name literally means "horrible" in Finnish and from what I've heard that's somewhat accurate
[Kept an innocent man on death row] (https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris-record-as-prosecutor-on-marijuana-death-penalty-021423679.html)
[Supported civil asset forfeiture ] (https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/jeff-sessions-civil-asset-forfeiture-plan-government-sanctioned-stealing/)
[Arrested the mother of a disabled girl] (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e)
And more I’m sure but she was off my list of potential candidates based on any of these alone
For me, it's this:
[Harris] fought for this law, which raised the financial penalty and made it a criminal misdemeanor for parents, up to a year in jail, when their children missed at least 10 percent of school time.
I like her well enough. Would love another love affair like the obamas but that might be once in a lifetime kind of thing.
The last four Vice Presidents have been strong enough to be seen as decent contributors to their administrations; Cheney and Biden have both been at the forefront in representing the Executive Branch in sensitive negotiations.
Harris hasn't seemed to be tapped by this administration to perform the same role. Worse, it feels like this administration has intentionally pulled Harris back while putting Buttigieg in roles that would otherwise go to Harris.
Her position will get her attacked, but it feels like she isn't being defended by the Biden Administration for reasons.
Fine with me. Her favorabity is higher then Trump or Biden. So I think your asking a loaded question.
She’s an accomplished Black woman. That’s literally it.
Yeah. Right. Has nothing to do with her being some neoliberal cop who has a shit record from the left. It's because she's black. And a woman. Got it.
Former cop and decisions in the past most likely. Some of it could be racial though.
Is anyone else kinda afraid they're gonna try to turn Harris into the"heir apparent" for 2028, and we'll have a repeat of 2016?