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Sadly Practical's avatar

This is a topic that lights my hair on fire because I have yet to find a single male friend of any race, no matter how liberal, who isn’t an asshole towards Kamala Harris. I have no idea where they are getting their news but they appear to believe every dumbass BernietoTrump type or Republican talking point. Even when you can get them to admit that their data is a pile of anecdotal horseshit, they refuse to accept that their gut might just be sensing that she is a woman and Black, that they don’t have some hidden spidey sense. They are sure she is corrupt. That she slept her way up. That she is useless. That she alienates voters. They really don’t want to believe that all their unearned privilege might have affected them so deeply that they retain bias. They voted for Warren, they’ll have you know. They voted for Obama. Just, they just don’t like Kamala.

I think the only way we are ever going to get an elected female president is if someone kicks the bucket in office first and a female vp moves up. And even then, I suspect all my liberal male friends are going to try every trick in the book to express how much better a different, penis-y-er candidate might be a better choice first.

Why no, I haven’t gotten over my desire for a Warren/Harris and then Harris/SomebodyNew ticket for 2016,2020,2024, and 2028, thank you.

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Edith Prickly's avatar

I'm not American but I am a long-time observer of US presidential politics, and every time some media clown starts floating "[Democratic candidate] should name a Republican as their running mate FOR UNITY" I ask myself, how the fuck is that supposed to work? The VP is there to handle some of the workload, be a tie-breaking vote in the Senate as needed and be ready to take over if something happens to the president. How does that work when they're from the other party? The people get a Republican president instead of the Democrat they voted for? what does that do to votes in the Senate? Whose policies is a Republican VP going to support while they're campaigning? Who actually believes that would create "unity" besides political pundits who spend their time huffing each other's farts? Am I going to stop asking rhetorical questions? NEVER!

TL;DR: I have never seen anyone outside the political chattering classes take the idea of a "unity ticket" seriously, with good reason. It won't work. And for whatever reason, it's always Democrats who are supposed to pre-fuck their administrations by choosing a Republican VP. It's a terrible idea that just won't die.

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