I mean, with either Biden or Harris highlighting the less common response is a weird phrasing choice, and it's a weird thing to focus on if they're just looking for weaknesses (Republicans who are always going to think any Dem is too progressive will distort things, and meanwhile she's almost as close to being negative on the "has a clear vision for the country" question which speaks more to persuadable voters).
but i agree that people have to stop being scared of the "insult" liberal.
I didn't say that and don't think I can agree with you there. Like, it shouldn't be an insult per se, liberalism was an improvement over the monarchism and mercantilism ideas that came before it and I think civil rights and written constitutions are solid ideas we should retain, but the whole obsession with "market based" solutions and paternalistic means testing nonsense is a silly waste of money and political capital.
On a very much related note, the fact that the survey question asks "Do you think Kamala Harris is too liberal or progressive, not liberal or etc." is really unhelpful, but that's "all the news that's fit to print" for ya
it is like when they use the word woke as an insult; i mean what is the fucking alternative - being asleep?
Yeah, that's always struck me as a weird flex too. I guess just because it was a phrase commonly used by black people once upon a time before it went mainstream was enough to make them reflexively hate it.
