As someone who criticized Harris for her CNN town hall and other times, I think she gave a great speech tonight. Best performance since the debate. Needs to continue this until Election Day. No mistakes. Biden needs to be shelved. He needed to be shelved before the dumb ass “garbage” comment because the last thing the Harris campaign needs is for people to be reminded of Biden.
Divide the country. Divide the family. Vote blue no matter who! Party over country. So much for diversity advertisement.
There was a time I had some respect for Nate Silver. He could have likely gotten Hillary Clinton elected if he wasn't living in his own little partisan bubble, manipulating his polls to show Harris with a blow out victory. Many Democrat voters stayed home because of his polls. And yet, he is doubling down on his stupidity blaming Biden for Harris's shortcomings. Harris is the problem, not Biden. She is a shitty candidate and has run a clown show instead of a campaign. In political coups, its important to maintain power and control for weeks and months. The American people have spoken. They do not want Harris.
The democrat party is making a mistake buying into the right wing framing on immigration. It doesn't make sense. If you want to frame yourself as tough on migrants as a Democrat, why would those who vote based on cruelty towards migrants care to vote for you when they can just be like "the Republicans mean it when they hate migrants"? I just don't get it. Why are you doing this Democrats? Why are ryou buying into right wing framing on immigration?
It’s to address that several Democratic cities were also dealing last year with large numbers of immigration being bused in. It’s also to address the hypocrisy of the Republican Party saying it’s one of the most important issues while blocking Congressional action on it. Also I don’t think the Democrat message is the same as the Republican. The Republican message includes mass deportation and targeting even legal immigration and doing away with birth right citizenship. I haven’t heard Democrats push that.
It's the same message with less explicit hate rhetoric. The conclusions drawn are the same. View the border as a security issue implying migrants are disproportionately bringing crime. That is the implication the Democrat party is putting out there without the overt hate rhetoric like making up stories about them stealing pets and eating them. It reinforces the hate rhetoric because the ones espousing the hate rhetoric will point to the Harris campaign and say stuff like "even the wokes understand how violent migrants are". 99.9% of the people who complain about migrants invading their city and increasing costs never experienced real life ramifications of these migrants but rather their social media algorithms telling them that these are problems their city is facing. That's how the vast majority of anti-migrant rhetoric comes from. Most people who care about this issue don't care about it because it effects their personal lives. They care about it because their social media algorithms and the "if it bleeds it leads" legacy media coverage tell them to care about it. This phenomenon of how social media and legacy media shapes narratives is why the average American thinks violent crime has gotten up in the past 20 years when statistically it has gotten down. It's all self fulfilling. It's like when Republicans justify "election security" measures that make it harder to vote by saying "well Americans are really concerned about our election integrity". Ya they are only concerned because you told them to concerned about it. It's all self fulfilling.
I think they just want to get a bipartisan bill passed through Congress that helps take the topic off the table to constantly be an election issue. It’s not politically sustainable to constantly be something they run on and every election cycle the electorate gets more racist and riled up. You get a bill passed while the Republicans just yells and scream about it so you can say the Democrats actually do things to help while Republicans just want to politicize etc. Not endorsing that strategy although I don’t think it’s a terrible strategy if you do think Kamala can get a bill passed early on that doesn’t suck up her entire first term getting passed. Makes sense to me to want to fund better infrastructure, staff where it needs to be staffed, add better technology, and a cleaner pathway to citizenship. As for the rhetoric I don’t see what you are getting at. Yeah Kamala talked about going after gangs and cartels but if you want to argue that’s a political loser then I’d have to disagree with you. For me I just want the rhetoric on the right to be neutered because the way things are going with the MAGA movement, it’s only a matter of time before a Trump regime essentially goes to war with Mexico and Central America. It’ll first look like a special operation going after cartels but over time an American military will destroy millions of lives in Latin America.
I’m very pro immigrant but even I would agree with a compromise immigration bill they increased security at the border with increasing legal immigration and better processing of current immigrants. Also im not hear Democratic rhetoric portraying immigrants as violent criminals like a lot of Republican rhetoric. Most of the rhetoric I’m hearing from Harris and other Democrats is that we need a more controlled immigration process and that people should come here through safer avenues than risky border crossings.
If you believe migrants are a legitimate issue in this country outside the fact that are a exploited labor class that morally should make us as a society feel ashamed, then why would you even consider the Democrat party half assing border security? And not just go vote for the real thing with people who don't pretend they don't hate migrants? Anyone who fears migrants because of security because they perceive migrants as disproportionately bringing in violent crime will just see the Democrat party as paying lip service to border security and see the side who has the hate rhetoric to back up their sincerity in border security as the genuine party if you really care about "border security". Border security has always been a fake issue to rile up racists and allow politicians to escape having conversations about issues like healthcare.
Security of what? People watching too much Sicario. I forgot, Hollywood also has a role to play in the average American's perception of violence and its frequency in America. The past 30 years has seen the highest influx of undocumented labor in American history while also seeing one of them lowest violent crime rate eras in American history.
When you treat the border as a security issue rather than a labor exploitation issue, you are implying that migrants are disproportionately violent. And the Harris campaign is treating the border issue as a security issue.
In case you haven’t noticed the country is very closely divided. There is no way significant immigration reform including action DACA and dreamers without negotiation and compromise. Increasing funding on border security for things like hiring for border patrol, technology like drones to monitor the border, there is a chance to get significant reform passed. Also as we’ve seen recently even accepting that the case majority of people showing up at the border are not violent and just want a better life having a more organized system to handle the rush is a good thing. You seem to be making an absolutist argument when like most things absolutes and ideological purity make good talking point abut rarely get things passed.
