Why is Kamala Harris disliked so much as VP?
Just under half, 49%, of registered voters have a negative view of the vice president.
She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?
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I'm not American but I get the impression the left hates her because she's a fairly right wing neoliberal?
When Biden was first elected, I saw one of those "what you order from Wish vs what you get" memes about this.
Had Bernie Sanders & AOC on the "expectation" side and Biden & Harris on the "reality" side.
Doesn't help that she was a prosecutor in California during three strikes. She's basically a cop.
Ah, that's right. I had never heard of her until the US election and I remember looking her up and being a little dismayed.
It's crazy how the right screams that Biden is extremely left while he's center at BEST. Just shows how far they continue to shift right. I mean hell, some of them stopped watching Fox "news" because it became too "liberal" for their taste. That should tell you a whole lot.
It's kind of funny, but also really fucking sad when these people scream about Biden being a far left communist who wants to destroy America with radical socialism or whatever.
I don't know how many actually believe it sincerely. Well, a lot do, but I think there's also an element of just shouting buzzwords without knowing what they mean. Parroting, really.
Like, dude... Please come to where I live and see that our centre-right party has identical policies to the Democrats. Overton Window is extremely fucked in America right now.
Went to a new dentist, and the hygienist started out cleaning my teeth saying she doesn't talk about politics and likes to keep thing lite. 20 minutes later I was being told how socialism is the number one threat to America and how people need to wake up... Scary when people can be that worked up about something they clearly don't understand. More so when the person they are talking to has a mouth full of dental tools and hasn't said shit.
Yep, I'm in Canada. You should hear my soon-to-be late elderly neighbour go on about the ills of communism while the paramedics and Medigas trucks are at his house every other day.
It’s not crazy at all. They want the social expectation of what “far left” is to get established at Biden as a baseline. So they’re going to tie that label as much as they can so that when actual progressives put out a platform they’re seen as completely insane and non-viable despite the rest of the developed world doing it for decades.
I think this is the Overton Window changing.
I get the impression that someone like FD Roosevelt would not be possible in the US now.
I'm sorry? Fox News is too 'liberal' for them?
Real world center is American Red Party Communist because this country is so fucked
As a centrist, both sides scream that the other is to the extreme.
Right: “We should exterminate all people not like us”
Left: “We should work together and build a better future“
Centre: “Why are you so similar‽”
m/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM
Literally proving my point. Nobody is saying to exterminate anyone except literal Nazis. I've had people claim that the left wants to be able to abort up til birth. You see how that is a gross mischarcterization of hundreds of millions of Americans? If you are claiming your side wants nothing but good and is perfect some the other is the literal devil there is something seriously wrong.
Oh fuck off mate.
We’ve all seen the end result go far-right governments when on power.
You might find this interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SovietUnion
Which minority communities are the supporters and politicians of the Democrat party calling for the extermination of? I know Republicans and their surrogates have started talking about "hunting Democrats with dogs" and having gay people "line up against the wall", but I must have missed that rhetoric from the Democrats. Do you have a link or something I could check out?
I'm more on the opinion that any VP that bleeds will be hated.
Maybe not by the same people, though?
Where I live, we have had three female Prime Ministers - at one point both main political parties were led by women. I hated one of them because she cut welfare for single mothers, cut hospital funding, cut school funding, etc etc.
You definitely are not American. AOC can't run for president until 28 due to her age.
28 means "2028"
Wait what, is that why the US has so many elderly people as President?
I think the meme meant Vice President for her but if the VP gets to take over if the President dies I guess the rule applies anyway.