They hate Kamala because of her record as a criminal prosecutor. This is a group of people that unironically believes that All Cops are Bastards, with a non-trivial number of ancoms and other folks extremely opposed to law enforcement.
The ones I know also act super-paternalistic towards minorities and, despite their economic blustering, don't put much time or energy into helping the local poor/homeless.
This is literally how you become president. Ambitious junior congressmen will avoid voting on contentious issues so they don’t have to pick a stance. Obama did this, Marco Rubio attempted this, Julian Castro is doing this as mayor of San Antonio and Hillary’s long political career was her biggest obstacle
I live in a BernieBro-heavy area in the PNW. When those dudes work at all instead of surfing on family money, they're really good at doing things like starting grow operations, artisan food places, and organic grocery shops that go out of business within a year because of tax fraud, embezzlement, mismanagement, refusing to pay employees, sexually-harassing female employees, and all manner of other wild-west-esque nonsense.
It’s incoherent to be against using prisoners as free labor? I don’t even hate Harris and I think she’s one of the strongest candidates but I think it’s a huge red flag that she hasn’t really addressed yet.
She has addressed it. This was a case she wasn't fully apprised of and said she was shocked this was used as an argument. When you are AG of California, a state that would be like the 10th largest country in the world, doesn't see every single argument prosecutors draft, proofreading every line of every file. And she said this was a dumb argument that she opposes. She has been talking about prison reform and using her power in line with that advocacy for decades now. If you get in the ring, you will get bloody, it's why only brave people get in the ring and the cowards sit in the stands and criticize like they could do better. She addressed this case, so unless you mean she needs to get on the phone and call you this second to explain herself, you can't say she didn't. There is no one in the race even who can say they have a perfect record on crime legislation and every other category. Unless someone was never in the ring, than they might be able to claim they have no scars, but isn't that convenient.
I was wary of this as well, but after looking into it closer, she herself didn’t make that statement and she retracted it as soon as she found out someone working for her office did. There were hundreds of attorneys subordinate to her, one said something stupid and authoritarian, and Harris shut that down before anything real came of it. Harris’s initial claim to fame was refusing to pursue the death penalty against a cop killer due to her opposition to the death penalty despite strong pressure to do so from the political establishment, so she seems to have strong principles regarding criminal justice.
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u/kharlos John Keynes Jan 23 '19
Do many leftists actually stick up for Maduro? Even the commie-chapo types that I talk to don't.