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Perhaps it sounds like that but that’s not really the implication here. The Democratic Party is not an overtly left party, still Harris has moved to the right of even the administration she is currently part of. On pro-business and foreign policy messaging in particular, she’s taken a hardline stance, akin to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and it’s having near parallel results. There is demand for the Democratic Party to shift at least a little to the left, but instead she’s paying right of center, and it’s not shocking that it’s backfiring.

Why is it that when Donald Trump claims to be a leftist— draining the swamp, helping manufacturing, creating the best healthcare— none of his right-wing supporters believe he’ll betray them? But as soon as Kamala Harris says anything appeasing to the right, leftist supporters believe she’s sold her soul?

Can’t Harris use appeasement and subterfuge to win an election and then do something different? Why is that only Donald Trump’s coalition privilege?

I’m just speaking for myself here but every day it’s harder for me with her. It’s not her trying to appeal to the right by itself. It’s bringing Dick Cheney into the fold in the context of how little she’s done to do the same for people further on the left. Especially where Gaza is concerned. The gestures don’t have to be grand but they are glaringly absent

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She has said a lot of things but she’s had opportunities to actually do something, like let a Palestinian delegate speak at the convention. She refused and offered to meet in private. She isn’t indicating anything will be any different

Kamala Harris has met with the Uncommitted movement and recognizes the need for a ceasefire. Beyond that, what would you have her do?

For me, the only gesture that matters is a simple declaration that her foreign policy will end the current practice of providing billions in lethal military aid to countries which are using it to carry out attacks on civilians and UN peacekeepers. That's it. That would get my vote. But I cannot in good conscience vote for any candidate that will NOT commit to ending America's support of the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in the Occupied Territories and the latest atrocities in Lebanon. The lesser of two evils is still evil.