That’s a weird claim, when the Central Park Five were speakes at the DNC, probably the most well known symbol against death penalty.
And the democrats have both a presidential candidate and VP candidate that are clearly against the death penalty.Download the party program pdf:
Link to page:
https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Direct link to download:
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdfPage 38 of the party program:
>And Democrats continue to support abolishing the death penalty.Article is bullshit because the claim in the headline:
Democrats Abandoned Their Anti-Death Penalty Stance.
Is easily refuted by the facts of the policies of their candidates.
And the claim below the headline:
remove death penalty opposition from their party platform.
Is evidently false. It’s right there on page 38 of their official program!!!
Here’s a link to the 2024 platform. It does not include the quoted line from the 2020 platform document, or any other reference to “death penalty”.
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf
Imagine how wonderful it would be, if journalists linked sources that are essential to their story.
That said, this is not their official program, it’s based heavily on Biden policies, not Kamala Harris.
I imagine with Harris as their new candidate, democrats will make a new program. As it is, this program is basically meaningless. Both Harris and Walz strongly oppose death penalty.
So I maintain the story is grossly misleading. As is evident by the invitation of one of the Exonerated Five to the DNC.
I was unable to find any mention of it in the 2024 platform. But then they didn’t even have time to change the names in it. So I’m not sure what, if anything, it actually signifies.
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They keep bragging about many Republicans they had on stage. Great, I guess the Democrats are just the Republicans from 10-20 years ago if those speakers find the current Democratic party palatable. I’m sure that will rally people to vote blue like they did in 2008. Was it caving on immigration, peace, and crime what made Obama so popular?
They’re not even Republicans from 10-20 years ago. They’re Republicans from five years ago.
Yes because Republicans from five years ago would definitely have all the largest union leaders and several socialists speaking at their convention.
If they were speaking at the DNC, they were not socialists. They had more Republicans and cops speaking at that convention than marginalized communities.
If they were speaking at the DNC, they were not socialists.
So Bernie and AOC aren’t socialists now?
They had more Republicans and cops speaking at that convention than marginalized communities.
Uh? No they didn’t? Did you even watch the convention? They had a few Republicans and cops who spoke for less than ten minutes each. Meanwhile they had dozens of women of color, and women’s rights were one of the main themes of the entire convention.
Bernie and AOC have never been socialists.
Why would they watch the conversation when you can just make up what you feel probably happened based on emotion?
Lemmy has a real feelings = facts problem and it’s sad.
How’s that ratchet go again?
I think it’s fine. I’m tired of the 2 parties and the checklists for each.
Sir, we are not supposed to talk about Project Mayhem.
Is anyone surprised after hearing her acceptance speech?
Her acceptance speech was bog standard for a democratic nominee, she played to both conservatives and progressives. Don’t act like she’s suddenly now a conservative because she pandered to the military and veterans.
She was pandering to moderate to more right wing conservatives.
The ticket is pandering to progressives as well, there’s no way in hell Tim Walz would be going up there and saying Healthcare and Housing are human rights otherwise.
They may be human rights, but those are rights that we will never get in the US.
because the campaign knows any relatively sane person is already not voting for trump. the campaign is try to pull in a few of the “stupid” / “distracted” / “both sides bad” / “only voted republican before but they are weird now” people.
we wont really know anything about a harris administration until she starts selecting appointments. so far her VP selection is tentatively 'opefull.
We know that blackrock is driving her economic policy, you know, the same people that have made housing unaffordable for most of the nation. And the rest of the cabinet will be handpicked by Citibank.
And the rest of the cabinet will be handpicked by Citibank.
Lmfao
Laugh all you want, they’ve done it for decades
