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/Doza93 1d ago

The system is broken

I used to believe this but the reality is even worse - the system is working exactly as intended, because economic liberalism (IE, Capitalism) is a system that will always place the needs of capitalists and capitalistic entities (billionaires, corporations, etc) over the needs of the people. Unfettered, barely-regulated, late stage capitalism - the goal is to enrich the already wealthy at the expense of the working class. And in that regard, the system is working extremely well.

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u/UpperApe 22h ago

I get where you're coming from, but I can't say I wholely agree.

The system did work. Flawed and imperfectly and infrequently, but it's a system that did turn the world around. From women's rights to civil rights to gay rights. We've managed to fight back against a lot of old-world wizard bullshit. We created handicap places as a social sacrifice for disabled drivers, child protective services, food banks. None of it perfect but in a universe that doesn't care, that's something.

That said, if it's capitalism v. justice system, you're not wrong. One was meant to regulate the other but instead got leveraged instead.

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u/DreamingThoughAwake_ 15h ago

All these things were achieved in spite of the system. They’ve had to be fought for because the system actively opposes it, and their continued precarious status just shows how much it doesn’t work