On Harris's campaign issues, I'm not too surprised about her campaign, though I expected these to come up if elected president rather then during the campaign. They repeat noticeable 2020 primary issues.
-Khive. Reese, the author, knows about them,. but other people might not. Very petty, love to attack progressives for various things (They really hated Elizabeth Warren for some reason), love to harass people including some example outside the internet. And kept doing it after the 2020 race. Of course, lots of really awful things said about Palestinians.
This is *not* how supporters of most politicians behave, only Sanders had the same sort of thing (Buttigieg and O'rourke had some supporters pointed in that direction, but not nearly as extreme). Which suggests an issue with how the campaign or candidate does things.
Sure enough, we get decisions like sending Ritchie Torres (who has very pro-Israel, plus not particular well known politically, a.k.a. endorsement wouldn't be expected to attract people) to Michigan to address Arabs/Muslims there, or the Bill Clinton comments, or the dismissal of uncommitted. Which looks like straight pettiness more then anything else, and suggests other decisions were made similarly that I might not be as aware of. Which wouldn't draw people in.
-Issues with her sister's husband and other Rich people getting too involved in the campaign. Which matches reports of her sister's management of the 2020 primary campaign, which lead to organizational issues/not knowing who was in charge/that kind of thing.
-Harris campaign was kind of sloppy in proposing policies ("Forgiveness for Pell grant starting a business in underserved area), doing debates (both attempts at big debate moments fell apart pretty quickly, and she was uneven in the other ones), which points to general issues in how it was run.
Arguably, the Harris campaign had a similar trend: Lots of excitement early on (Lots of predictions she would win the 2020 primary, started clearly in the second tier of candidates after Biden and Sanders), got some excitement for a bit, but then lost it.
Which adds up to....if other people are looking for a point, picking a better manager is a start. Someone with better campaign management skills likely could have made up 2% in some way or another.
Personally, am very burned out after the past 8 years of politics. I've done a good amount of phone banking and canvassing starting in 2016, but the constant opposition to anything left, even from people who seem like they support the same goals, plus receiving a bit of Khive and other attacks and internet roughness, plus things like Pelosi and Clyburn opposing Cisneros (Participated in that one)....was physically unmotivated (my body feels stuck in place and resists doing political actions, is how it feels) and angry for this election, even if you argue I should have done some stuff in it as well. But Trump is quite scary, so I suppose time to get active again and limit the damage/get these guys out of office.
Plus it is tiring seeing very, very obvious things not happen (Eric Adams, who lies a lot keeps lying and doing corruption. Garland should have done things quicker, and get Trump prosecuted instead of waiting around. Moderates are obviously not going to pass the larger BBB if the bipartisan one goes through......I don't do politics as a full time job, so if I find this stuff blindingly obvious it should be as obvious to most other people involved, certainly if they follow or participate in politics.) So, yes, burnout. Lots of exciting, useful, cool things politics could be doing or helping to do, and instead it is complain about woke and resisting things and dealing with Trump.
On Harris's campaign issues, I'm not too surprised about her campaign, though I expected these to come up if elected president rather then during the campaign. They repeat noticeable 2020 primary issues.
-Khive. Reese, the author, knows about them,. but other people might not. Very petty, love to attack progressives for various things (They really hated Elizabeth Warren for some reason), love to harass people including some example outside the internet. And kept doing it after the 2020 race. Of course, lots of really awful things said about Palestinians.
This is *not* how supporters of most politicians behave, only Sanders had the same sort of thing (Buttigieg and O'rourke had some supporters pointed in that direction, but not nearly as extreme). Which suggests an issue with how the campaign or candidate does things.
Sure enough, we get decisions like sending Ritchie Torres (who has very pro-Israel, plus not particular well known politically, a.k.a. endorsement wouldn't be expected to attract people) to Michigan to address Arabs/Muslims there, or the Bill Clinton comments, or the dismissal of uncommitted. Which looks like straight pettiness more then anything else, and suggests other decisions were made similarly that I might not be as aware of. Which wouldn't draw people in.
-Issues with her sister's husband and other Rich people getting too involved in the campaign. Which matches reports of her sister's management of the 2020 primary campaign, which lead to organizational issues/not knowing who was in charge/that kind of thing.
-Harris campaign was kind of sloppy in proposing policies ("Forgiveness for Pell grant starting a business in underserved area), doing debates (both attempts at big debate moments fell apart pretty quickly, and she was uneven in the other ones), which points to general issues in how it was run.
Arguably, the Harris campaign had a similar trend: Lots of excitement early on (Lots of predictions she would win the 2020 primary, started clearly in the second tier of candidates after Biden and Sanders), got some excitement for a bit, but then lost it.
Which adds up to....if other people are looking for a point, picking a better manager is a start. Someone with better campaign management skills likely could have made up 2% in some way or another.
Personally, am very burned out after the past 8 years of politics. I've done a good amount of phone banking and canvassing starting in 2016, but the constant opposition to anything left, even from people who seem like they support the same goals, plus receiving a bit of Khive and other attacks and internet roughness, plus things like Pelosi and Clyburn opposing Cisneros (Participated in that one)....was physically unmotivated (my body feels stuck in place and resists doing political actions, is how it feels) and angry for this election, even if you argue I should have done some stuff in it as well. But Trump is quite scary, so I suppose time to get active again and limit the damage/get these guys out of office.
Plus it is tiring seeing very, very obvious things not happen (Eric Adams, who lies a lot keeps lying and doing corruption. Garland should have done things quicker, and get Trump prosecuted instead of waiting around. Moderates are obviously not going to pass the larger BBB if the bipartisan one goes through......I don't do politics as a full time job, so if I find this stuff blindingly obvious it should be as obvious to most other people involved, certainly if they follow or participate in politics.) So, yes, burnout. Lots of exciting, useful, cool things politics could be doing or helping to do, and instead it is complain about woke and resisting things and dealing with Trump.
So, yeah, Time to get working I suppose......