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I really, really want to turn back the clock to 2008 when I was overjoyed for Barack Obama's election.
But I can't. His, Trump's, and Biden's policies have made it essential for my 80 year-old parents to drive for DoorDash or starve.
He expanded our warring presence globally, legalized torture, made health care more expensive, ignored abortion (which he could have legalized), brutalized Occupy, did precious little about a foreclosure crisis, made sure the banks suffered no consequences for destroying millions of lives, and militarized the police.
Remember when Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson? It's been ten years, and as with everything in this country, it's only harder for the poor, middle class, and disenfranchised.
That is what you're supporting in Kamala Harris. Conservativism dressed up in a politically-correct, acceptable package. Her administration will make you poorer, will make your lives harder, and ultimately, you'll be left thinking the way I do about Obama.
I'd say it's objectively better than the two brain-dead candidates that America had to choose from a week ago, but not by much. Hell, you had a candidate in the Democratic primary who vocally and unequivocally opposes child genocide... and none of you voted for her.
I agree. However, I think a growing percentage of the population is painfully aware how little difference there is between the two parties. My only hope is that Harris will perhaps give us time for the vastly more progressive younger generations to come into power. Also, fuck Trump with a cactus, he is the worst aspects of our country condensed into one putrid sack of dying flesh.
It could happen.
I'm not optimistic. In 2010 the Census showed a 28% increase in mixed-race families. I believed this would translate to a much more progressive future, but we've only moved in reverse, and the Democrats we've elected have demonstrated their willingness to do nothing about it as long as they keep the ability to use their seats for self-enrichment.
Now, I expect the worst.