Kamala Harris supports Civil Forfeiture?

[Warren DeMontague]

152. It's not so much about consuming drugs, it's about ending the idiocy that is cannabis prohibition.

And as such I take issue with his statements on the question, although again that was before Mass. passed their legalization initiative. He may be more inclined to reflect the view of a majority of his constituents, now. I'd be interested to find out.

I do question the actual value of this "proven brand" stuff. It will be 60 years since JFK was elected, in 2020. This idea that we need some magic elixir- a name, whatever- or that we can plug a bunch of variables into the candidate machine and get the winning formula; we should remember that the last two Democratic Presidents- popular successful two-termers- both came from relative middle class obscurity. No pedigree at all, just brains and grit.

Hell, the "smart money" said that we would be fools to run a candidate - an African American one term Senator???- with a name like "Barack Hussein Obama", right?

That's not to say I won't give JFKIII a chance. One thing about the Kennedy kid is, he's young, he's got plenty of time to win me over. But right now I do think it's the height of stupidity not to get ahead of the curve on marijuana legalization; and for whatever reason, the east coast establishment doesn't seem as able to get their heads around it, although that too is changing quickly.

As for candidates- I've been watching Kamala Harris for a long time and I do think she will be a formidable force in the party. I also like Gavin Newsom. I like Cory Booker. I like Jay Inslee. I had never heard of Pete Buttigeig until a few months ago; and THAT guy is impressive.

And I also like Warren. I think part of the disconnect is, the "conventional wisdom" beltway people haven't internalized the fact that the Millennials- now fully into the cohort of voting age- are an even bigger group than the boomers. That's tectonic. And it is pushing rapid changes in public opinion on all sorts of stuff. Millennials don't want a "safe" Democratic Party that doesn't seem to stand for much except celebrity endorsements, they listen and HEAR those things people like Warren say, the "liberal" ideas about, you know, livable minimum wages and stuff. It's not a bug, it's a feature, as the kids say.

And in that vein, getting on board with the trend towards cannabis legalization isn't just the right thing to do, it's the politically savvy one too. It is the perfect wedge issue to cleave the libertarian and authoritarian wings of the GOP apart, for one.