I’m OK with Harris. Not thrilled, but OK.

It would have been nice to get Warren. Sanders has the same age issue (though is still mentally there in interviews) as Biden, and that window has closed. So many people at the federal level have clung to their positions for so long, it feels like as a country, we wouldn’t be familiar with people in the primes of their life actually running the show.

At 45, I shouldn’t still be waiting for my generation to have any level of power. AARP is coming for me in 10 years.

  • SteveEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    My dream candidate would be Andrew Yang.

    Realistically? I don’t know. The Democrat elite is deathly allergic to genuine progressive economic populism.

    • Sandbag@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      In 2020 he would have been great, the recent publicity of him though, idk if he’s still the best candidate.

      • SteveEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        What recent publicity?
        I just looked a bit, couldn’t find anything bad or unusual.

        • averyminya@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          The only things I could find are his tweet,

          “I’m standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists,” he tweeted. “The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.”

          And another article that was saying he apologized for saying Joe Rogan isn’t racist

          • SteveEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Kind of. Not in the way you think. His not at all advocating that people should be buying Bitcoin for investment, and Monero to replace cash transactions.

            His ideas are around using it as an alternative form of currency that can be given to people for charitable volunteer work. A way for the government to reward people for being good neighbors and helping their community.

            • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              That doesn’t really make sense to use multiple currencies like that

              • SteveEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                It depends on the details of how the program is implemented.

                Every hour you spend helping someone load a moving van, cut their grass, represent them in traffic court for free, you get 1 Sameritoken (my word). You can pay for things with it, the seller can then exchange the ST for $. The government can change the value of ST whenever it likes. During the holidays they might be worth 2x. Or the local government might give you an extra Sameritoken if you help at the local food-bank or whatever.

                It’s more flexible than regular cash. And doesn’t cost anything for individual people you may help. So even if they have nothing to actually pay you with, they can always give you Sameritokens.