#so im getting hit left and right (ha) by the most doomer shit

[siribear]

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I do think it's still incredibly frustrating that people are treating this like a "normal" election... era. Because until fascists are wholly discouraged from existing in America, yes, every single election season is a vote for peoples rights and their lives.

I'm not denying it's disheartening to have to vote for someone who seems like just another status quo politician, but when the other guy wants to run the military over dissenters and put brown people in concentration camps, is that really a choice?

People want to disparage Kamala for not strictly speaking on progressive messaging, as if the entire country hasn't been through the American propaganda machine that is the public schooling system that tells us anything but capitalism is the death of the country. As if half the country doesn't still believe it. As if when we say people's taxes CAN fund universal healthcare, they don't think they won't be paying life endingly high tax rates in comparison to the idiotic insurance rates we pay now.

A majority of the country isn't terminally online, isn't constantly keeping up with politics. They're uninformed and misinformed and disinformed on the daily. The only trickle down they feel is money leaking from their wallets. They all think the entire government is ineffective, even the politicians actively helping them.

That's why the Harris campaign has to speak to everyone. Has to get every single vote, even from the Republicans who just don't know any better. Because we're still going by the electoral college. So, yes, she has to court the people that aren't full blooded progressives (yet!), yes she has to adjust messaging. She has to get them to actually see her as she is instead of Fox News Kamala, to get their foot in the door to maybe being a little more radicalized for the left.

The campaign doesn't have the luxury of cutting people off like we (as individual citizens) can. Can't say, oh, that's crazy uncle Ted that repeats Fox News headlines and loves Trump and we don't talk to him anymore. Unfortunately, you can't win elections like that. And again, it does suck to see her messaging change in real time. But imagine all the Republicans who looked at her when she came swinging right out the gate with universal healthcare and thought, "No, I'll stick with the fascist. I saved $300 annually because of his tax cuts."

Maybe I'm too naive and giving the campaign too much grace, and maybe I'll eat my words if it turns out that if she wins, she starts moving the country to the Right anyway. But we don't know that. What we do know is the other guy will throw us all into the fire day 1, snort the ashes, and there will be nothing left after that.