she used her position to threaten single moms for their kids truancy.
she refused to charge,let alone prosecute,steve minuchin.ignoring the mountain of evidence against him.
she refused a court order to release prisoners due to over crowding.the reason her office stated in open court was: we needed the prison labor.
she refused to release a man who was exonerated from DNA due to a clerical error.

I could do this for a very long time.
kamala was a shit candidate from the get-go.
she was the darling of the establishment,but they have moved on after tulsi tanked her campaign in the debates,which is why she has no money to keep running.
the donor class has abandoned her.

but progressive?
not a chance homie.

Using the logic that was just used on me, since she hasn't proven she's not a progressive, she's a progressive. Sort of like the person who assumes everyone they haven't slept with is gay. Hey, I don't agree with these rules... you guys made them, and I'm just trying to play by them.

you are simply the BEST!
seriously...rock on mate..rock on.

Seriously, someone had just used that logic, trying to prove me wrong about something. While I am wrong more than I'd like to admit, when someone tells me that Trump is a racist because he has not proven that he's not a racist... well, that's when I feel like I'm taking the crazy pills.

Besides, she's a politician (getting back to the original point now...) so if she thought the word "progressive" would get her one more vote, or one more dollar in campaign money, she'd be the progressive poster child. Besides, when did we start judging people by what they actually do?

thanks for takin the time to clarify.

and people who engage in that form of argument are "arguing from a negative".
don't even bother trying to unfurl that pretzel.
the goal is not to win,nor even to understand,but to cleverly shift the point to a more accessible goal.

it is kind of like deflection,but more cleverly disguised as a cogent argument.
you will just end up playing whack a mole.
those are bad faith actors,and they are everywhere.
best to just walk away...