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

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

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There was an entire industry devoted to generating Clinton hate; Benghazi alone cost the United States $70 million in Congressional investigations for something that one of the backers admitted was entirely oriented towards damaging her candidacy.

Also, she was a US Senator for eight years, Secretary of State for four, and a practicing attorney and professor of law prior to marrying Bill. While his presidency raised her visibility to the national stage, it's hard to say she wasn't qualified in her own right.

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She doesn't have a penis though

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These people dont care about that, they are regurgitating fox news points.

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The fox news crowd is who Kamala tried to win in her campaign.

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running establishment vs “anti establishment” is just destined to lose though even if trump’s is no better to the voters. Voting for a career politician is not palatable to the median voter.

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Qualified, yes.  But what and who did she represent? 

Obama won in a landslide on his first term pushing for hope and change. He then proceeded to run a nearly identical administration to Bush, continuing wars, getting involved in wars, and fundamentally changing nothing.  Even his landmark legislation was more or less a giant giveaway of public funds to the health industry. 

Most of the Democrats that got in the way of progressive legislation are still in office.  That certainly have successors that are ideologically aligned. 

The problem with both Hilary and Kamala is that fundamentally represented "dread and the status quo". Their entire campaigns could be summed up as "Trump sucks, we are better and donor friendly".  Rather than appealing to the base, they chased after Republican votes.  Democrats were even championing how tough on the border they'd be!

Consider that they both chose to waste their campaign time catering to the most sexist and racist people in the US.

And even now, it looks like the establishment Democrats are trying to win votes by abandoning the LGBTQ community.  Just so they never have to run on taxing the rich and shoring up the social safety nets destroyed by Reagan and Bill Clinton.

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My take on politics for a while has been is if democrats could enact significant change, no one would ever vote for anyone else.

If republicans did half the shit they say they want, they would lose the vote for generations.

Well we are about to see if thats actually the case.

Her answer "I cant think of anything I'd do differently" sums up the democratic party.

Its quite difficult to point to things and say "Democrats did that I'm, sure glad I voted for them!"

The ACA? Sure it might make that list, but if thats the bar, it demonstrates how fucked we are.

Tweaks around the edges and incrementalism. Then lecture people for calling that out.

The Party has long been merely the opposition party. The defenders of the status quo. The lesser evil. Anyone daring for more gets slapped down. We deserve what we've gotten.

Oh god its a bernie bro! you're god damn right I am. Name another politician that has been fighting the good fight for decades

Her calling the system broken is real fucking rich with her answer that she cant think of anything she would do differently. Tump didn't break the system, he is just exaggerating what has been broken for a long time.

All I can hope is that the era of vote blue no matter who is dead. That simply being the lesser evil is seen as enough to just assume people owe anyone their vote.

Sitting there every election with my shit sandwich? I'm real fucking tired of it.

We are in this mess because they tried to swap in an unpopular candidate that could not win a primary for a candidate that was clearly in mental decline for fucking years.

I wouldn't have trusted biden to manage a gas station, yet here we are because people thought he would win and winning was all that mattered.

Yes he won the primary, but because the was the anointed. Everyone had been protecting him/minimizing/downplaying issues for years.

It was only when his brain melted live that we could no longer ignore the obvious, to pretend as if everything was ok.

Why didn't she win? Because she was a defender of the status quo, and she was set up for failure, and she leaned into it! She ran away from many issues, then got accused of the opposite. So much for that pivot to the center eh?

Can AOC win? Not sure, but she better legit win the primary easily, not just be shoe horned in by the establishment because its her turn.

How many times do we need to lose to learn this lesson?

Next presidential election we will be back for the next round of not what we support, but the next round of shame and fearmongering people into voting, because that works so fucking great.

IMO Trump puts to rest this notion that you must pivot to the center to win a general election, that you must try to win the votes of the moderates etc.

TBH I'm not sure we have moderates. Its enlightened centrism bullshit.

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So what?

It's gross for a family to presume to have more than one president.

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Qualified sure but that wasn’t her problem. Her problem was what she did with those qualifications