Headline: Kamala Harris Is Farther Left Than Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders
American media is all out on convincing people Biden and Kamala are Lenin 2, huh
What a stupid fucking article, lol. “According to some vague-ass metrics about senate votes, Kamala is actually the fourth most extreme leftist in politics! No don’t look at her history of treatment of minorities and LGBT, here’s a chart!”
Also ignore the Senate is an inherently conservative institution, or that this vague-ass metric actually seems to value partisanship rather than measure left-right alignment, or that it's easy for a politician to be partisan when they're in the opposition.
ya and she even voted against a fucking pitiful 10% decrease in the military budget so wtf sort of metric do they even use to describe what is "left" in terms of the shit senators vote for? https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1291603731591634944
During the primaries:
"Bernie is too radical left! He'll scare away all the moderate voters!"
During the general election:
"hArRis iS aCtUaLlY tO tHe lEfT oF bErNiE"
you are expecting coherence and consistency from liberals, this is a mistake
Lol so that's it? A graph of so called "progressive votes", that's the whole article? Lmao okay I guess it totally overrides everything these candidates have done during their entires lives
I like how they’re blatantly trying to pass off their ghouls as leftwing, recognizing that there is a growing contingent of leftist/sympathetic Americans, instead of actually changing literally anything about their platform. We’ll still get blamed if these personifications of cat vomit lose lmao.
Being a lazy shithead is like 40% of modern leftism anyways
I saw a twitter post that talked about this sort of thing, and it basically boils down to there are ways to present data to show off whose the biggest partisan hack rather than actually voting in ways that are reasonable and make sense. Gillibrand and Harris are the prime examples of people who cast votes this way. Because Bernie works on some bipartisan things like anti war resolutions, and these other people, don't he's ranked worse.
Literally just holding up a rotten potato in front of us and saying "See? This is just like the sandwich you wanted. It's better actually, way tastier than that gross old freshly made chicken club. You'd have to be an idiot not to think that Rotten Potato is a solid pick. What are you, a delusional Sandwich Bro?"
This is the National Review. When they call me far left, it's because they're trying to scare their audience into voting against me and Joe. Check out one of the comments:
The problem with this election is not that Biden is probably incompetent, or that Harris is micrometers away from Warren or Sanders on some progressive website's polling. It's that the Democrat party in general has devolved into a radical socialism.
Seriously, how can anyone accuse me and Joe of being radical socialists? But they exist. And that's why our campaign strategy will be to avoid saying or doing anything that might upset Republican voters, and hoping that Trump makes enough of them so angry that they'll vote for us.
bannondorf really was the only reason his campaign in 2016 was halfway competent
Feyerabend's contention that rhetoric trumps truth gnaws at my core more and more every day.
