Centrist Dems Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris: Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

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25. Evolve how much? We are already for most of the ideas progressives want.

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That's another issue: most of our Democrats run on building -- PROGRESSing -- upon past PROGRESSive accomplishments and then they lose and some on the left try to paint them as """centrist."""

Kamala was in no way a moderate -- she was a progressive. She was in favor of pretty much every-damn-thing most progressives want, so it's just a matter of extremes and how to turn those ideals into actual achievable policy.

Here is her/the Democratic Party platform for 2024: https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf

Is wanting to raise the federal minimum wage to "at least $15" instead of $25 worth it to turn our country over to MAGA fascists?

Is wanting to implement a national paid family leave of 12 weeks instead of 26 weeks or 52 weeks worth Trump tearing all the PROGRESS we have made through the years?

Is making billionaires pay at least a 25% tax instead of "billionaires should not exist" worth letting Republicans win control of the federal government and then watching as they give the wealthiest among us even more tax breaks, paid for by cuts to our social safety net programs?

I can go on and on.

Moral of the story: it's called being a PROGRESSIVE -- not a PERFECTIONIST.

Anyone on that claims to be a progressive but did not support/vote for/do everything they could to elect Kamala as president, outside of MAGA, they are the FURTHEST thing from a progressive.