2020 Democratic Candidates Tracker - Part II

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theprestige said:
It's well understood that revolutionaries must turn to in-fighting and ideological purges, to consolidate power in the hands of a few, following a successful revolution.

What is less well understood is that revolutionaries must sometimes turn to in-fighting and ideological purges before the revolution, to consolidate strength in the revolutionary faction best capable of succeeding in the revolution.
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more importantly, what no proponent of the 2nd amendment as the means to overthrow governments seem to get it:
if you want to overthrow your government, you better have the backing of another powerful government.
 
Travis said:
How in the hell is Harris "Republican-lite?"
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As a state prosecutor, she was necessarily on the law and order side of things, and part of keeping her job meant pursuing criminal justice policies that some (many?) would consider quite regressive and anti-minority.

That's my understanding, anyway.
 
theprestige said:
As a state prosecutor, she was necessarily on the law and order side of things, and part of keeping her job meant pursuing criminal justice policies that some (many?) would consider quite regressive and anti-minority.

That's my understanding, anyway.
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Not me.

Political donors, ties to Wall Street, flip-flop on healthcare, voting for military budgets, evasive on her own busing policy.

I can't remember who it was, but some journalist noted she was much closer to Billary than Bernie, which feels about right. All of which makes her much more palatable to the Republican-lites running the Democratic machine. I bet Pelosi loves her.
 
theprestige said:
As a state prosecutor, she was necessarily on the law and order side of things, and part of keeping her job meant pursuing criminal justice policies that some (many?) would consider quite regressive and anti-minority.

That's my understanding, anyway.
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She's also solidly anti-universal-health-care.
 
It would have been so awesome if the DNC would allow for ranked choice voting for the nominee.
Ironically, that would almost certainly give Biden the nomination, even if he ends up being no one's first choice.
 
Delvo said:
She's also solidly anti-universal-health-care.
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Harris is ostensibly for Medicare for All, but I suspect only saying that because anything less would be unpalatable for the Sanders progressives. I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea that Bernie has set the standard in this new version of Medicare for All, as it's just one form of single-payer, which is one form of universal healthcare.
 
Ranked choice voting could have a big effect in the general election where all the EC votes are awarded to the first place candidate. In the Democratic primaries delegates are allocated proportionally. If a candidate drops outs the delegates that were pledged to that candidate are free to choose another candidate.

Most of the Republican primaries are winner take all. A system set up to hand the nomination to the early leader so the party can focus its attention on the general election. The assumption was that the early leader would be a mainstream candidate like Jeb Bush. In a crowded field it ended up handing the nomination to Trump.
 
Ranked choice voting would make Primaries obsolete - which is why neither Party Leadership is especially keen on them.
 
Kirsten Gillibrand submits her plan to tackle global warming. It's a big fail; no mention of nuclear power and she indulges in the fantasy of 100% renewables in 10 years:

In a decade, I’ll strive to get us to 100% clean, renewable, and zero-carbon electricity, and I’ll prioritize transforming our electric grid into a system that’s designed to better handle renewable and distributed energy.
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Tulsi is suing Google:

The Hill said:
[...] "In the hours following the 1st debate, while millions of Americans searched for info about Tulsi, Google suspended her search ad account w/o explanation," the campaign said. "It is vital to our democracy that big tech companies can’t affect the outcome of elections."

Gabbard, a long-shot candidate who regularly polls around 1 percent, has long staked out positions that put her at odds with most of the Democratic party.

The complaint also alleges that Google did not offer adequate explanations for her advertising account's suspension during the hours between June 27 and 28.

"For hours, as millions of Americans searched Google for information about Tulsi, and as Tulsi was trying, through Google, to speak to them, her Google Ads account was arbitrarily and forcibly taken offline," it reads. "Throughout this period, the Campaign worked frantically to gather more information about the suspension."

"In response, the Campaign got opacity and an inconsistent series of answers from Google," it states.

Gabbard is seeking $50 million in damages. [...]
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Google now blames it on an algorithm.
 
Brainster said:
Kirsten Gillibrand submits her plan to tackle global warming. It's a big fail; no mention of nuclear power and she indulges in the fantasy of 100% renewables in 10 years:
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Seems to be an improvement over the Green New Deal. Agree it needs nukes but doesn't otherwise strike me as a big fail. This is the kind of bold stuff we need to be doing. [correction:need to have been doing for quite some time already]
 
Travis said:
I recently waded into black twitter (that's what they call it, don't get mad at me) and discovered that there is some deep seated animosity towards Warren there over the entire ancestry thing and her having been a Republican until the mid 90's. I previously thought it might just be some lone cranks that were so agitated by this but now I'm understanding that I might have been a bit blinded by my white privilege to how minority groups were perceiving all that.
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Oh, No doubt there's some very strong animosity towards Warren on black Twitter. There's some real anger towards Sanders (the Bernie Stans have been dogpiling people, using barely-concealed slurs and mass reporting, since 2015) and Biden (for so, so many things) as well.

Twitter isn't real life.

Or rather, it's a highly distorted version. I doubt most black people even glanced at Warren so far, and while black Twitter can be strongly connected with native Americans (how do you think Black Lives Matter ended up raising money and protesting the Keystone pipeline?), most black women are not too concerned. And offline, Biden's still pretty popular, particularly since most people (regardless of race) aren't paying too much attention.
 
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Seven 2020 Democrats join anti-corruption pledge

Seven Democratic presidential candidates will be picking up support from the group End Citizens United after pledging to support a major government ethics and campaign finance reform bill as the first legislation should they be elected. Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Beto O’Rourke, and Steve Bullock have all signed the “Reform First” pledge.

Rather than endorsing a single candidate, End Citizens United will raise money for all seven online and promote them on social media. “Committing to ‘Reform First’ shows the American people you’re serious about cleaning up corruption,” said Tiffany Muller, the president of End Citizens United. “These candidates uniquely understand that reform is the essential first step to accomplishing the progressive change that America needs.”

That is, putting clean government first timewise doesn’t mean other issues are less important. As Gillibrand said in a statement, “If we want to pass progressive legislation like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, common-sense gun violence prevention, and comprehensive immigration reform, we have to start by breaking the chokehold corporate special interests have on Washington.”
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