Subject: Re: Those Pesky Iranians
I don't actually need to know what Harris' policies are, as each and every one of these is just plain stupid. Doing nothing would be better. It would be nearly impossible to do worse. - Petey

I did not mention Trump or his policies in my post. I was responding only to your admission of not needing to know what Harris' policies are...
Your lack of concern about her policies affords her luxury of not being expected to articulate and defend her policies.

There's something to be said for that, especially when it comes to domestic policies. I personally don't care much about the specifics of a Presidential candidate's domestic policies. Getting in the weeds of what they say they plan to do is a fool's errand. What I care about are their priorities.

That's because Presidents almost never get to actually implement their preferred policies, so the details of what they would do in a vacuum are largely irrelevant. No matter what the candidate wants to enact - much less what they say they want to enact - the details almost never survive contact with political reality. The ur-example of this is the 2008 Democratic primary clash between the Clinton and Obama health care proposals, where the candidates (and pundits and voters and analysts) pored over the details of the two competing plans. Marked primarily by a sharp difference in philosophy over mandates. Obama was against them, vigorously pushing back against Clinton's promotion of them. Hence the irony when Obamacare passed with mandates.

What's far more important is knowing a candidate's priorities, because they can make a consequential choice in what they choose to emphasize. Obama very clearly prioritized health care over almost any other issue - that was the top of his list. Next up was finance reform in response to the Great Recession. Issues that he campaigned on, and had very specific policy proposals, but didn't get prioritized just didn't happen - which is why the details of the immigration reform or EFCA or any of a number of matters ended up being utterly irrelevant.

I would like to know what Harris' main priorities are. I could care less what type of health care plan or housing affordability program she thinks is best.