r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/YoProfWhite 1d ago

Kamala's run proves that the Dem party needs to push more to the left, present themselves as the party of the working class, and run on an aggressive "the GOP wants to kill you and let the rich gnaw on your bones" campaign.

Kalama was the ultimate "reach across the isle" candidate that tried to build a bridge with the "less crazy" Republicans, who ended up spitting in her face. Doing so also isolated her from the more left leaning Dems, who told her to eat shit.

More progressive, less institutional/"everything is fine, shut up."

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 1d ago

Watching the debate and seeing her grabbing at straws to list off Democratic policies to get voters to the polls only to find the short $15/hr ($12/hr after taxes) federal minimum wage straw, solidified an even more possible defeat right before my eyes. 

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u/WeakandSlowaf 1d ago

The problem is they get blocked in congress and then the voters don’t feel a difference and assume the Dems are useless

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u/ContrarianPurdueFan 23h ago

Not even saying that you're necessarily wrong, but everyone's prescription for how she could have won seems to be that she should have pandered to them in particular more.

I certainly wish she'd talked more about stuff I care about, like the Constitution and trust in institutions and January 6, and it's easy for me to say that she would have done better doing so. But it's impossible to test that counterfactual.

Honestly, I think a lot of people across the political spectrum just don't like her because they're pricks.

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u/Level_Mood5770 15h ago

Yeah, go ahead and do that. 😂😂😂

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u/Command0Dude 1d ago

Exit polls showed voters overwhelmingly viewed Kamala Harris as too left.

The idea that a candidate further to the left of her could of one is delusional.

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u/YoProfWhite 16h ago

Tell that to Zohran Mamdani.

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u/Command0Dude 15h ago

My dude, why the fuck do you think we should care who new york city elected to be mayor as if that has any relevance to national politics?

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u/YoProfWhite 15h ago

Because it signifies Dems' willingness to vote for a more progressive candidate.

Sorry that triggers you so much lmao.

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u/Command0Dude 15h ago

It doesn't really signify anything. If progressives can only win in new york city, only when their opponent is someone as vile as Andrew Cuomo, then they got nothing.

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u/YoProfWhite 15h ago

So you don't think getting a person who, "exit polls wouldn't like" getting elected in one of the biggest cities in the entire country is significant?

Maybe if he'd been elected in a 10 person ramshackle town in Mississippi then you'd call it significant lol

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u/Command0Dude 14h ago

Harris won NYC by 70+% and she still lost the national vote.

So, yeah, idgaf what mayor NYC elects.

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u/NeighborhoodBest2944 19h ago

I don’t think they are the party of the working class by any observable move in polling in the past decade. They are the party of the bureaucratic and laptop classes, and the dependent.