Former first lady Michelle Obama said at a recent event that the US isn’t ready for a woman president, pointing to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful bid for the White House last year.
Long story short: They’re beholden to their donors, not their constituents. They’re not centrists because they believe in that stuff (I suspect they do, but that’s incidental), but because their donors want them to be centrists. I mean, if they ran on a leftwing program they’d need to do something leftwing to appease their constituents, and that would require them to tax the rich.
Long story short: They’re beholden to their donors, not their constituents. They’re not centrists because they believe in that stuff (I suspect they do, but that’s incidental), but because their donors want them to be centrists. I mean, if they ran on a leftwing program they’d need to do something leftwing to appease their constituents, and that would require them to tax the rich.