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The DNC's #1 goal is to stop socialism in the primaries. A distant #2 is winning general elections.
kgwgk | parent | next
Fun fact: Harris is the second-most liberal Democratic senator to serve in the Senate in the 21st century.

“During this period, there were 109 different Democrats who served in the Senate and cast a sufficient number of roll call votes for a reliable analysis of their ideological position. Of these 109 Democrats, Harris has the second-most liberal voting record. This makes her slightly less liberal than Warren, but more liberal than all of the remaining 107 Democrats, and significantly more liberal than all but a handful.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4816859-kamala-harris-i...

jellicle | root | parent | next
The definition of "liberal" being used here by The Hill is "voting with the Democratic Party". Their definitional left end of the spectrum is "bills put up by the Democrats" and definitional right end of the spectrum is "bills put up by the Republicans". These are not actually meaningfully "liberal" and "conservative" as the terms are used elsewhere.

Harris is a party-line voter (pretty obviously, as an insider she's defining the party line in the first place). The Democratic Party isn't leftist and nor is Harris. It's routine in most democracies for elected representatives to be party-line voters.

SturgeonsLaw | root | parent
Liberalism and Socialism are two very different things. Liberalism is squarely in the Capitalism camp. There are no workers owning the means of production under Liberalism.

The DNC's bread and butter are Liberals. Not Socialists. Not anyone even approaching Socialist. Bernie, AOC, etc are SocDems at best. There are no Socialists in office in the United States.

kgwgk | root | parent
I don’t disagree. I guess the DNC objective of stopping socialists in the primaries takes care of itself because there are no socialists in the party.
JamesBarney | parent | next
Goal #1 is just an instrumental goal to goal number #2. Socialists underperform moderates in general elections. Hell even Kamala, a terrible candidate who just got trounced by Trump outperformed Bernie (who has literally everything going for him) in his home state by a slim margin. Where as a moderate like Dan Osborn without the backing of the party outperformed Kamala by almost 14%.

Americans don't want to pay European style taxes even for European services. And our public sector is far less efficient than Europe's so we wouldn't even get European level of services for that taxation rate.

anonfordays | parent
>The DNC's #1 goal is to stop socialism in the primaries.

"The DNC's #1 goal is to stop democracy in the primaries."

FTFY.