George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris

I don't think anyone on Lemmy is the target audience.

Wouldn't this also make her the first of the Bush family to endorse Harris?

I’d argue that what she’s doing is even more admirable, simply because it’s super fucking easy to fall into the “my parents voted this way so I do too” mindset. Pretty much every small town in America is full of people who were steeped in hate while growing up, have never known anything else, and fully plan on continuing the family tradition when they have kids of their own. It would be easy for her to just keep her head down and coast along on her father’s coattails. But she has actively refused to do so.

Thank you for your efforts. I’m in GA and proudly voted for Harris. Doing my part as well, one week will tell if it made any difference.

One in Ohio. (And a pro Sherrod brown vote as well). I want my state to swing instead of my body

And Texas here. Trump does not represent all of us

I mean, Trump is openly promising to wreck American democracy and use the military against protestors on American soil at this point. There's a lot of problems with Harris, sure, but to say they're the same is to admit your own ignorance.

I expect if her positions were completely reversed, you'd complain about those too.

Senator Sanders has some wise words about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5MThSniiY

It's a lemmy.ml account, ignore this pro-Ruski troll

Account is only 17 days old and on a .ml account? Russian trolls are getting easier and easier to spot as 11/5 draws near. Boo, at least be harder to spot.

The equivalent of "Is Pepsi ok?" in American politics

Ooh, you really got me there with your intellectual prowess and debating skills.

I’m with you there.

But I don’t see how Kamala embracing republican politicians with poll numbers lower than even Biden is going to get her votes.

Maybe works for people who only watch cable tv?

They were going to vote for Kamala either way.

Announcing just a week or two out gives them potential plausible deniability after the fact, less prominence in crowded news cycles now and less repeated points of exposure as a potential surrogate at events or in press. Basically, after the fact if trump wins, they can say it was an isolated, momentary lapse instead of deep commit and then smooth further with typical, "Realize I just felt threatened/pressured by those woke marxists CRTs and f da libz, trump 4 liffffz!" (If you need an example, go see every January 6 traitor crying in court, saying they should not have followed trump's bullshit and their actions we're reprehensible prior to sentencing... then fast forward to when they are released and they are at a Halloween party the next week dressed as Paul Pelosi with a hammer in their skull, showing off their new "stop the steal" tattoo and doing Lee Greenwood karaoke while standing in front of a "make America swastika again" flag)

And all will fairly easily be forgiven on that side, as they always need warm bodies regardless of any morality or integrity. And on the otherside if Harris wins, they get to sleep at night saying "I helped" without really having done or risked anything in response to a prior life of being actively driving or at leeway complicity with the root cause of the problem.

Two things can be true, they can still owe a lifetime of penance for their atrocious past actions (active or passive participation) AND they can start operating on the side of good for the rest of their lives to hopefully, eventually do more good than harm.

"Her dad" is a fucking war criminal who has been whitewashed into goofy, doofy grandpa with time, but who was the driver of a lot of SERIOUS damage inflicted on the US and the broader world. So a bit to start, sure, there's a layer of gratitude for the action in this desperate moment, but overall fuck her and "her dad" ( like he's just since dude, okay tool - cool story) Plain truth is I haven't seen her ever directly acknowledge the fact that her father is trash and that's how history should always remember him - short of that, she's lacking a good start to any kind of meaningful apology. Also their family money, as most family money does, has some very fucked up roots.

To restate a bit for context, announcing just a week or two out gives them potential plausible deniability after the fact, less prominence in crowded news cycles now and less repeated points of exposure as a potential surrogate at events or in press. Basically, after the fact if trump wins, they can say it was an isolated, momentary lapse instead of deep commit and then smooth further with typical, "Realize I just felt threatened/pressured by those woke marxists CRTs and f da libz, trump 4 liffffz!" (If you need an example, go see every January 6 traitor crying in court, saying they should not have followed trump's bullshit and their actions we're reprehensible prior to sentencing... then fast forward to when they are released and they are at a Halloween party the next week dressed as Paul Pelosi with a hammer in their skull, showing off their new "stop the steal" tattoo and doing Lee Greenwood karaoke while standing in front of a "make America swastika again" flag)

And all will fairly easily be forgiven on that side, as they always need warm bodies regardless of any morality or integrity. And on the otherside if Harris wins, they get to sleep at night saying "I helped" without really having done or risked anything in response to a prior life of being actively driving or at leeway complicity with the root cause of the problem.

Two things can be true at once, she can still owe a lifetime of penance for her/her family's atrocious past actions (active or passive participation) AND they can start operating on the side of good for the rest of their lives to hopefully, eventually do more good than harm.

So respectfully, fuck you and your revisionist history, "no time to convict Nixon, the nation needs to heal" apologist bullshit.

In a way, but see above. Both can be true