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Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign
(www.theguardian.com)
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Maybe they should copy what Bernie Sanders is doing. He's not even running and packing out town hall meetings. Who knew being against oligarchs, authoritarians, corporate cronyism and for the middle class would appeal to people?
Middle class is a term devised by the rich to divide the working class. The one thing they fear more than anything is class consciousness.
Looks to me like Sanders is in the recruitment phase for something. At least I hope he is.
Tim Walz should theoretically be good at that. While most politicians are well to do, he's never made much money and has a reputation of being a regular person, for the regular people. But since he was running for VP he had to parrot Harris' stance on everything.
If he could go out and speak plainly with a clear message like Bernie does, be himself and tell us what he really thinks, at least we'd be able to make a judgement call on whether to support him. I don't know if he has that in him though. Unless he really did learn that "playing it safe" (i.e. acting like a Dem) does not work any more.
Exactly. I would like to see what he has to offer on his own terms. Maybe I'll support him, maybe not. But it was obvious through the entire campaign that he was holding back. The one thing he did that got the most traction in the campaign was calling Republicans "weird", and he was told by Dem leadership to stop doing that.
It's really hard to decide if Dems are just that incredibly incompetent, or if they are actual controlled opposition. I think it might be a combination of the two.
If he was aligned with Bernie I think we would know by now. Problem is he doesn't seem to share these opinions that make Bernie popular.
Walz has offered to do town halls in red states where Republicans have stopped doing them.
Offered to? Shouldn't he just go ahead and do it?
He's already done one in Iowa, with many more yet to come.
Except if they copied what Bernie is doing, it would include not making a presidential run. Part of the reason Bernie is able to do what he does is he only needs to keep his relatively smaller electorate happy instead of having to appeal to a whole nation, including people somewhat philosophically opposed to him.
My heart seethes with neutrality