Nice, my post was deleted and why? From what I can tell it did not violate the Talk Guidelines - I have never had this issue before.
I am an American who is affected by the political system here and disagree with both parties. It is all a bunch of white old dudes playing circle jerk with other people's lives - lives that mostly will never experience the wealth and privilege they enjoy (KH as a VP pick was just strategic - it was stated as a fact many times that he was picking specifically a black woman as a running mate - not the best candidate but a candidate based on demographics first with credentials being the second consideration). For the record, KH is more than educated enough, successful enough, rich enough, etc. to fit the bill - she is more than capable of the VP position... more capable than Biden in regards to presidency IMO but still a bad choice for women. The people that support them when it is so completely obvious that it is all about prestige, money, and power and has zero to do with the remaining 97% of the population's needs (FYI, KH is in the 3% due to being able to work her way in - and I think that is wonderful for her and her family) are willfully blind. The truth is the 3% don't care about us or our needs unless it is a soundbite that serves their agenda. LESS THAN 10% OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS QUALIFY AS 'COMFORTABLE'... that speaks volumes.
But yeah let's totally keep electing elites with great privilege in education, job access (IT IS about who you know here, not what you are capable of), more $$ in their accounts than thousands of normal Americans combined, and have corporations as their overlords. Rich people pander to rich people to stay rich and keep the poor, poor... so that they have the worker bees to do their bidding (scrub their toilets, raise their kids, carry their garbage away, wait on them, etc.) not hard to understand.
Biden and Harris both have contributed directly to mass incarceration of minorities - all for the industrial for-profit prison complex. This greatly contributes to wealth disparities - in every community.
Those that believe KH will be better than any of the other political entrenched wealth-supported virtue signaling wokerati either have no skin in the game or no commitment to Women's Sex-based Rights. I live here these laws affect my day-to-day and considering I voted for Obama in both elections only to be slighted by his 'being nice' in regards to gender identity I have a very strong position. I have no regrets about voting for him and am very happy with a great deal of what he accomplished but incredibly disheartened about his rollback of sex-based rights.
KH's vocal support of gender identity being ratified into law - effectively erasing sex-based protections - did none of you read her policy site when it was up?
I devour every candidate's policies in order to be well informed. Tulsi while not well received was our best option for Dem candidate IMO but she didn't fit the far left's identity politics as she exists in material reality (she's Samoan and isn't included in identity politics through the 'acceptable' lens, she isn't LGBTQ++, and she doesn't subscribe to TWAW). And while I disagree with Tulsi's previous stance on gay marriage at least she hasn't lost the plot and sees why gay marriage is important and necessary. But, she still acknowledges and supports sex-based rights in tandem with LGB rights and Trans rights as a separate but equal category.
Those that can't see what I am saying are buying into this corrupt system that has oppressed women (black women especially, who are used as a tool of manipulation - subhuman to be shit on and used in every arena) since inception. Mind blowing considering the history of black women throughout US history (most notably in the Civil War as they were quite effective in fighting for the freedom enslaved blacks. Mary Bowser's espionage was likely the greatest asset to the Union above and beyond the soldiers; after being freed she willingly posed as a slave in the Confederate White House to carry out the espionage that she and her former 'owner' abolitionist Bet Van Lew (daughter of 'owner' that inherited Mary) formulated and carried out in genius ways ultimately providing General Grant with insanely important intel greatly contributing to the fall of the Confederacy.
KH now makes jokes about marijuana but she has quite a record of prosecuting marijuana (possession) charges, she championed a law that literally put parents in jail for schoolchild truancy, ignored police abuse when there are well known cases of Californian corrupt police departments and police departments that engaged in the rape and abuse of many young women. She chose to focus on apps that facilitate prostitution rather than prosecuting policemen that abused as well as took part in trafficking and rape of young women because they weren't important to her platform (they would have damaged it for sure as the AG) - the optics of the app were bigger and more 'sensational' and most importantly (for her) did not alienate her from the police and wealthy elites.
I don't care what KH's demographics mean to the wider population... I care about her positions on policy and how the translation of those positions will affect the most marginalized/downtrodden/abused in our already corrupt society (women, children, MH patients, etc.). It is important that girls have representatives they can look up to - so they can imagine themselves in those roles but not to the detriment of their sex-based rights. Female DV survivors, rape survivors, et al being forced to share spaces with men that 'feel like women' - is a travesty, a tragedy, an inhumanity that is beyond the pale eroding boundaries and diffusing any possibility of them speaking out ... females and transgender individuals need to be afforded the same safety/dignity/boundaries so they need their own separate spaces.
