I was unsurprised to learn that Kamala Harris had been picked as Joe Biden’s running mate. She’s exactly the right kind of corporatist puppet to pair him with.
I can find no moral center in her history or in the behavior I’ve observed from her, other than that of establishment hack and hardline enforcer of the status quo. She will say whatever it takes to gain personal advantage, reverse any policy position, change any alliance as long as her bread continues to be buttered. Back in early 2019, she signed on as a cosponsor of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill.
In the very first Democratic debate, she raised her hand when the debate participants were asked if they would give up their private insurance and replace it with Mecicare for All (a provision of the bill she sponsored.) By the next morning, she was already walking back her support for M4A, claiming she had raised her hand because she had misheard the question, and that she only supported Medicare for All if it was supplemented by private insurance.
This is Kamala Harris. This is what she does — stand for nothing, shape change to fit her sense of the prevailing winds, cowtow to the monied powers. As of this moment, it’s working for her. While the country is in the throes of buckling to the will of a creeping autocrat, the Democrats, as represented by Kamala Harris and her running mate Joe Biden, are shifting to the right, and more than this, they are working as hard as they can to disenfranchise the left wing of their own supposedly-left-wing party, standing on policy that would have been considered mainstream Republicanism not so long ago.
At this point, it seems likely that she will be the next Vice President of the US. I can’t tell you that I’m thrilled at the prospect. People will respond to this by saying “yeah, but, she’s better than her opponent.” That’s probably true, but I can’t say that I am moved by that recommendation. The Biden/Harris ticket may slow the roll of creeping fascism, but they will not stop it entirely. In my view, they are instruments of the continued advancement of corporate globalism and no antitdote to authoritarianism.
Kamala Harris will not save you.
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