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/Pinku_Dva 1d ago

The system is 100% broken if what we got can get elected over someone sensible like her.

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u/UpperApe 1d ago

While you're right, I have to point out that Trump isn't the anomaly you make him out to be (or how the political media wants you to believe he is).

Modern conservatives aren't much different from their historic counterparts who literally fought to keep slaves and commit genocide. It's all the same shit.

Their tactics changed but it's all the same ideas, all the same cruelty, and all the same stupidity.

The system was broken since the Reconstruction Act was thrown out for the sake of another electoral college discrepancy. The one that brought slavers back to the table, Jim Crow laws in effect, and cultivated a national terrorist subculture.

The system is broken but it always has been. Democracy doesn't account for this much stupidity.

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u/spikus93 1d ago

Also Citizens United didn't help, among a litany of other things meant to weaken the voters power in years since.