Comment on What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on them
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months agoWell yeah, it’s literally politics, the point is to get elected. If she sat there and explained to the general electorate how the webwork of backroom coalitions and pork barrel conveyor belts actually worked, the fence sitters and side liners she’s trying to engage with would just complain and vote for the much simpler message: “Vote for me and you’ll never have to vote again”
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
At some point you have to take a stance and explain your stance. That is what she has failed to do. She jumps from one stance to the next stance to the next stance.
I am a Republican but I hate fracking. It jacks up the water supply. I am big on the environment and if someone has a compelling platform, I could vote for that.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you like the environment, you need to stop voting for Republicans, full stop.
The other guy’s stance on fracking is Drill, baby, drill!
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That her stance as well. SHe wants to continue fracking. I am not a single-issue voter either. Most of her ideas will screw up the economy as well.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a big difference between “I won’t ban it” and “drill baby drill”. It has a lot to do with those backrooms and conveyor belts I was talking about earlier, but the short version is: She probably would if she could, but if she says that, a bunch of frackers in Pennsylvania won’t vote for her because they are single issue voters.
zeppo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the puzzling thing about conservatives - the utter inability or unwillingness to discern anything as other than binary, black or white. Harris isn’t going to ban fracking overnight, sure. That would be economically uintenable. On the other hand, the velveeta treason weasel would eagerly sell out nation parks to allow fracking.