Vice President Kamala Harris’s favorability rating is lower than Dick Cheney’s at his lowest point. Not only is she unlikely to do anything to drastically improve those numbers, the potential for them to drop lower is very real.
Having Kamala Harris as our Vice President is a result of following a “Blue No Matter Who” strategy, a strategy and catchphrase created for an essentially corrupt party. The situation in which we now find ourselves is the result of listening to the “experts”, the “adults”, the “smart” people. This is the predictable result you get when you mindlessly absorb the propaganda issued by corporate, imperialist sources. This is the unavoidable result of entrusting your vote to those whose attitudes, votes, and very souls have been purchased by the Military Industrial Complex and Wall Street.
Look at Kamala Harris for a moment. Gaze deeply into her soul.
What’s that you say? You don’t see anything? There is nothing she’s ever said or done that points to some inward driving force? That it’s like staring into a dark and empty void accompanied by a mindless chuckle?
Exactly. Behind the empty platitudes, behind the racial and gender posturing, behind her Converse shoes, there is a vacuum. There is nothing motivating her actions beyond the desire to serve power. She is not motivated to the plight of immigrants, to whom she says “Do not come.” Not motivated to help poor people of color, whom she so joyfully placed in prison in her role as Attorney General of California. Nor was she motivated to help the people who lost so much in the Crash of 2008 while big banks were being bailed out. While she was busy imprisoning the parents of truants (and laughing about it), she did not have time to prosecute Steve Mnuchin, who was behind the foreclosures of so many people’s homes.
So now Kamala Harris’ favorability rating is lower than Dick Cheney’s was at its lowest. Dick Cheney, a man who was so unlikeable there was no way he could ever have been elected president.
Hey, guess who the Democratic Party has placed into position as the person most likely to become the next Democratic Party Presidential nominee? While the equally unlikable and soulless Pete Buttigieg waits in the wings as the eager understudy, it is for the moment Kamala Harris. They will never permit you to have anyone better. Never.
It’s my turn to play the adult card. I’ve sat more or less silently on the sidelines for decades while the media’s professed adults-in-the-room have endlessly repeated their august pronouncements of why we have to continuously compromise not only our aspirations but our moral framework by voting for the sellouts that are the only candidates the Democratic Party will permit to come out on top.
So let me speak to you now as a loving parent might speak to a teenager who is dating a confirmed reprobate: They don’t care about you. They don’t care about you they don’t care about you they don’t. They don’t care about beating Donald Trump or the Republicans, their only mission is to stop you from getting single payer health care. It’s the only thing they’ve done successfully in the last forty years. You have a better chance of getting single payer health care from Trump, who cares more about being liked by the average American than Democrats do.
Sorry. I apologize for my somewhat emotional outburst. Perhaps I am not the grownup in the room, after all. I’ll be quiet now and let the adults explain the wisdom behind making Kamala Harris the future of their party. I’ll let the people who are paid millions of dollars tell you why it was the epitome of wisdom to choose as Joe Biden’s successor a person less likely to become president than that cross between Mr. Potter and a junkyard dog, Dick Cheney. I want to hear about how it was a stroke of genius concocted by well-paid strategists far beyond the understanding of us regular folk.
Was it because Dick Cheney turned you down?
P.S. Vote Blue No Matter Who. Don't be a child.
