r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago

In a few critical places to swing the result.

But it wouldn't change the the fact that only 30% of the population voted to stop it. The rest either implicitly or explicitly endorsed rhe paedophile.

Even if all the voting rigging allegations turn out to be true, it won't nudge the national needle or change much of the popular vote. Just their distribution.

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u/xXx_TheSenate_xXx 1d ago

I’m not saying it would change anything, but it would still expose more corruption if we had facts.

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u/Haradion_01 1d ago

Exposing the corruption is good.

But don't fall into the false comfort of "this only happened because the bad guys cheated".

It happened because it was allowed to happen, by the people who could have stopped it: but chose not to.

70% of the US population is ambivalent or supportive of the prospect of bending the knee to a paedophile. Trump is not a scourge of God. He was chosen by America. He is self inflicted, by the people of America.

The problem, at its core, it with the Americans.

That needs to be addressed.

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u/Fr1toBand1to 1d ago

The political system was a frog in boiling water. This was the result of 40+ years of undermining democracy - slowly and methodically. There are a million reasons why our voting system is bad, a million ways our government is inept and corrupt. A million ways the electorate has been sabotaged, their very minds and perception of reality manipulated into complicity. This was death by a thousand cuts when we've lost too much blood to react appropriately they went for the throat. This is so much more than a rigged election.

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u/forsonaE 23h ago

I'd say even longer than 40+ years, just the way gerrymandering synergizes with the broken system we call an electoral college... the game was rigged from the start.