• BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Normally the vice president wouldn’t get this kind of attention. She’s getting this attention because Biden is so old, and he is standing again for election. Vice President is a bizarre non-job in the US system but also very important because of its potential.

    Kamala Harris is being attacked because there is a serious chance she will be President.

    On the one hand she is being attacked and undermined because she’s a woman and she’s black. But on the other hand it is an election and it’s right to think about the vice president, and particularly one who may actually be President.

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      1 year ago

      …or is she simply hated because of her history as a prosecutor and the air of disingenuousness she gives off?

      Tbf, I find something to hate about most US politicians, but I really don’t like the idea of it being semi-planned to elect an old fart for a second term so he can die of old age and the appointed VP “inherits” the position.

      …the US political system is so fucked up.