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Teri Peters's avatar

Thank you for writing this! I am in a group of Nikki Haley voters. Most of us lean right, but a few left. We are the center now. Nobody is happy. And I wonder, is there room for a centrist coalition in America? Center right and center left people are natural allies. We can compromise on the policy we disagree on, it is so small. We agree more than we disagree. The best thing to come out of the Trump years is that Never Trump/Haley voter types and moderate Democrats/left leaners have been mixing it up on social media. And we have found that we genuinely like one another, and get along on political issues. Wouldn't it be great if Trump actually brought about a great political alliance of centrists? How to do this? Where to start? Because sincerely, neither party represents me. I will write in at the top of the ticket and vote for the most moderate of either party down ballot. I suspect most of my group members will do the same. I know that one of the problems is that not enough people are voting in primaries thus letting the most extreme of both parties choose the candidates. So, choose a party at primary time and vote. But the whole progressives chose Walz on Twitter is disheartening. I am weaning off twitter. It doesn't work well with my moderate takes. But if twitter is not real life, how do the progressives have such a wide reach there? Same as the big MAGA accounts? Maybe twitter is more real life than we think? Do we need a bunch of normies to sign up and get twitter accounts? Ideas, people! Thanks for writing though. My group was thrilled to see we are not forgotten.

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MU2002's avatar

Agreed. And very frustrating to watch.

Has anyone visited the Harris/Walz campaign site? It contains zero policy positions. Not even high-level Democratic bromides. It's simply a fundraising page. Be you for him or against him, at least Trump has the integrity to tell you who he is and what he'll do as President. Kamala, on the other hand, is counting on a strategy of 'vibes'...she's leveraging a complicit media/press to generate positive buzz while not being forced to answer a single question or even commit to a single policy position. Between Biden being forced out...the Kamala Coronation...Walz selection....and the DNC, Harris will be able to eat up 2 months of news cycles in what is effectively a 4 month election cycle without being challenged once. It's a winning strategy for her and, the scary thing is, it appears to be working.

On a related note, can we please make 'vibes' and 'weird' end. This isn't middle school. Moving on...

It was honestly shocking last night watching all those in the Harris/Walz audience cheering with glee as Harris let them in on the news that she'd been formally nominated in a late night vote. People were overflowing with joy at the fact that the party had assumed for itself its voters constitutionally afforded right to select their leader. WTF was that? It was very Orwellian...almost cultish.

Fair minded Americans should demand that our press actually do their jobs and press Harris as much as they press Trump. Being available to the press, friendly or hostile, should not become a disadvantage in presidential politics. We should demand a series of policy-based debates to occur before ballots go out in September. CBS, ABC, and Fox.

I think we're about to find out that, despite the common cliche, the American people truly are not smarter than we give them credit for.

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