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In reply to the discussion: Kamala did NOTHING wrong. She was, and we are, up against incredibly powerful anti-Democratic Party / anti-democracy [View all]tornado34jh
(1,527 posts)It's always been against the oligarchs, more specifically, the plutocracy. They ran on this whole plutophobia campaign. By that, when Biden, Harris and a lot of people wanted more taxes for the extremely rich, they saw that hatred as against the rich. Note: the world suffix pluto- comes from Plutus, the god of wealth/riches, so plutocracy means a government governed by the rich. So from the beginning, the rich always had the advantage. But part of that is because we have such weak laws, if you can even call that, against money in politics. They convinced people, even though it was a scam from the beginning, that if you increase taxes for the extremely rich, it will cascade down.
But really this isn't anything new. It's as old as human civilization itself. The reality is, democracy ruled by your average person is not typically the main government. Even though we say it came from the Greeks and Romans, it really wasn't. It still was ruled by the rich and powerful. Even in very religious, theocratic governments, it's always going to be the rich and powerful. I would guarantee you that the ayatollahs running the government in Iran for example are likely very rich. Most governments in the world are ruled by some variation of ruling class with a lot of money and huge amount of inequality. There are not many people in government who started from the ground up, most were wealthy from the start.
But again, the Republicans have always been pro-plutocracy, and the damage started long ago. Assuming best case scenario where she did win and everything went well, her doing two terms would still be nowhere close enough to reverse the long lasting damage. It's not a dig at Kamala Harris, it's the reality. It probably would take at least two Democratic presidents, each for 8 years, two 4-year terms to do so, all while trying to defeat the plutocracy that has been here for a long time. So from the start Obama, Biden, and Harris were basically tied with at least one hand behind their back, and since 2000 it has only gotten worse.