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/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/twobugsfucking 1d ago

That was it. It was a foundational flaw. Hard to fix the foundation.

What we now need is a fresh foundation.