I was in the same boat. Basically the second they announced it a wave of relief washed over me and I realized this is what we need
Edit: I wasn't expecting so much interaction. I'm glad that she is gaining everybody's support, and giving us a bit of electricity needed to get through this final push towards election time!
I'm honestly not a big fan of her and would have preferred to see someone more progressive get the nomination, but I honestly had the same feeling as you now that we actually have a chance at defeating Trump.
If you want progressive candidates you gotta do community organization and outreach. Personally I'd much rather do praxis under Harris than Trump.
Have to get those progressives to run in the Dem primaries and show up to vote for them.
Doesn't matter when the DNC leadership puts their thumbs on the scale to prevent them from gaining any traction by doing things like excluding them from debates, giving funding to one candidate over another, or feeding stories favorable to their candidate to the media.
What we need is ranked choice voting so that we can kick both the DNC and RNC to the curb and form parties that aren't run by protectionist, out of touch millionaires/billionaires.
Can't get ranked choice with the current parties and third parties aren't creeping up in the polls to displace them. It's why Bernie ran in the Democratic primary. And we have more elected progressive Democrats now than we did because of it. It's a long game and it needs to grow from the bottom up to get electoral reform.
I was pretty distraught after the announcement, but within a few hours as the wave of support built, I came out of the hole and started feeling positive. So glad that the support fell behind so quickly.
It's almost like when you do what the electorate is asking, you earn their support! I sure hope the Dems finally learn that this time
I also have felt unburdened by what has been, as if a spell was cast on me. I had no doubt though that replacing Joe Biden with literally anyone, including his son or dog, would increase democrats chance of winning. I think in my case it was more of letting go of pent up anger towards the rotting carcass of the current president and all those who campaigned for his reelection. Including the lovely folk of lemmy, for whom I still might hold some animosity. To those that rode hard for Biden, a sincere fuck you.
Thank God Dems got their act together. Thank God Biden stepped aside. This is a much better timeline now.
Biden was still the right choice if the Dems were never going to run someone else. Full stop. Trump literally just told Christian voters they'll never have to vote again if they vote for him this time.
But I never "rode hard for Biden" in the sense that I felt he should've been the choice for the Dems. My argument has always been whoever the Dems pick is necessary to save the democratic process in this country (among many other things).
I was in the same boat. Basically the second they announced it a wave of relief washed over me and I realized this is what we need
Edit: I wasn't expecting so much interaction. I'm glad that she is gaining everybody's support, and giving us a bit of electricity needed to get through this final push towards election time!
I'm honestly not a big fan of her and would have preferred to see someone more progressive get the nomination, but I honestly had the same feeling as you now that we actually have a chance at defeating Trump.
If you want progressive candidates you gotta do community organization and outreach. Personally I'd much rather do praxis under Harris than Trump.
Have to get those progressives to run in the Dem primaries and show up to vote for them.
Doesn't matter when the DNC leadership puts their thumbs on the scale to prevent them from gaining any traction by doing things like excluding them from debates, giving funding to one candidate over another, or feeding stories favorable to their candidate to the media.
What we need is ranked choice voting so that we can kick both the DNC and RNC to the curb and form parties that aren't run by protectionist, out of touch millionaires/billionaires.
Can't get ranked choice with the current parties and third parties aren't creeping up in the polls to displace them. It's why Bernie ran in the Democratic primary. And we have more elected progressive Democrats now than we did because of it. It's a long game and it needs to grow from the bottom up to get electoral reform.
I was pretty distraught after the announcement, but within a few hours as the wave of support built, I came out of the hole and started feeling positive. So glad that the support fell behind so quickly.
It's almost like when you do what the electorate is asking, you earn their support! I sure hope the Dems finally learn that this time
I also have felt unburdened by what has been, as if a spell was cast on me. I had no doubt though that replacing Joe Biden with literally anyone, including his son or dog, would increase democrats chance of winning. I think in my case it was more of letting go of pent up anger towards the rotting carcass of the current president and all those who campaigned for his reelection. Including the lovely folk of lemmy, for whom I still might hold some animosity. To those that rode hard for Biden, a sincere fuck you.
Thank God Dems got their act together. Thank God Biden stepped aside. This is a much better timeline now.
Biden was still the right choice if the Dems were never going to run someone else. Full stop. Trump literally just told Christian voters they'll never have to vote again if they vote for him this time.
But I never "rode hard for Biden" in the sense that I felt he should've been the choice for the Dems. My argument has always been whoever the Dems pick is necessary to save the democratic process in this country (among many other things).