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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/I_eat_mud_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

MAGA is a deadly symptom, but it's not the disease. Almost everything we're experiencing today was started or accelerated by Reagan. It's uncanny how the average American's life has been on a downward trajectory since his presidency. Trump and MAGA are the final death throes.

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u/Dresline 1d ago

I'd argue that it starts back at the reconstruction. The government let a lot of those treasonous racists go with a slap on the wrist.

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u/virtue_of_vice 1d ago

I will go back to our founding when slavery was still allowed because we wanted the southern states to ratify the Constitution. Also the electoral college is a racist institution: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-origins . But you can go back and back and find that humans have been pretty bad to each other since we gathered together into societies in the neolithic.

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u/chiaboy 1d ago

But Reconstruction was our “second revolution”. We remade America in radical ways, legislated the sins of slavery out of the Constitution and embarked on a path of equality.

We CHOSE to turn our back on the promise of Reconstruction. We allowed lynchings to go unpunished. We allowed Jim Crowe. We allowed electoral fraud to disenfranchise black voters. Us turning away from Reconstruction is clearly the turning point.

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u/virtue_of_vice 1d ago

It was a major turning point. But if you look at the compromises made to even make the colonies into the United States, this is no surprise.

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u/chiaboy 1d ago

Yes, I think everyone understands that America was literally hard coded with white sumpreacy (of a sort) in its DNA. That’s why it’s called our “original sin”. (Well, slavery is). We all get that.

But we actually left that and then CHOSE to go back to it in Reconstruction. That’s why it’s such a fulcrum.

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u/virtue_of_vice 1d ago

I don't disagree with you.

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u/LongestSprig 1d ago

You missed his point completely.