In the 2020 elections You could argue that kamala was the weakest candidate out of the whole crop Not even in a leftist way like there were better liberals and centrists I think she did worse than bernie Amy Warren and even shit faced butegig While Biden provided a legacy candidate the top brass liked Bernie and Warren were exciting for the youth Amy was the centrist candidate Even Pete had more popularity
Kamala provided nothing The only reason she was picked for vp was that she was that she provided so many identity cards (black/Asian/female) it filled in the gap of electing an old white man as president
But now in a clear case of astro turfing meme culture is trying to rehabilitate her Even tho she is still the nobody who climbed the ladder who go their by mass incarceration of black people
The token vice president who stood by like a good dog while Biden failed to codeify roe v wad or deliver on campaign promises
In alot of ways she is the face of the Democrat party, a craven sycophant who betrayed her people to climb politics.
There certainly is a lot of astroturfing going on, but a lot of the fools I know online who are throwing coconut trees in their handles aren't DNC bots. There is genuine excitement for her. She appears as a clean slate. She's been silent as the grave for the past four years, to such a degree as she isn't seen as Biden's biggest cheerleader. She hasn't voluntarily gone out of her way to publicly eat shit every day the way many confidently wrong Democratic figures and administration spokespeople do.
Any awful shit the Biden administration is responsible for can be conveniently blamed on him, while any good things which came to pass in the past four years can be appropriated. People fill in the blanks (and they are enormous blanks) with whatever they want to believe. It isn't much different from how many of us felt about Bernie in 2016 and 2020.
I'm not saying she's a good candidate either. I agree with pretty much everything @DesertComrade@hexbear.net says here. I just think things have gotten so much more bleak in the past four years. Our standards have been lowered to such a degree, that THIS is what inspires people.
I actually kind of buy this. The temperature was turned up so high on Biden and Trump that there's basically no heat left for her.
All she has to be is Trump's foil, and I can't really think of anyone else that's less of their own character.
my lib wife yesterday looked like she was going to throw up she had so much anxiety
today she sounds excited, complete 180