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Kamala Harris Kindly Reminded Americans We’re Doomed.
Democrats have no plan.
The overturning of the Roe vs. Wade decision has left the country reeling, and for good reason. The uterus is now the property of the state, and the rights to our privacy and bodily autonomy were stripped away from us in an instant by people who were all too aware it was a decision that would get people killed. Of course, following the loss of abortion rights in roughly half the country, people have been looking to the Democratic Party to see what they’re going to do next in response.
Well, leave it to Kamala Harris to remind us all that — at least when it comes to hoping for our elected officials to do anything — we’re doomed.
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Bash asked the Vice President what she had to say in response to voters who said they had worked hard to elect a Democratic President, Senate, and House of Representatives, and wanted them to do something now.
The Vice President’s response?
“Do what now?”
Do what now…
Let that sink in for even the briefest of moments.
Let it sink in that the right wing spent around 50 years carefully planning for this moment, how to get here, and how to use it to advance their agenda even further. They spent decades carefully readying their lawyers and judges, turning the courts into a weapon in order to get whatever it is that they wanted, and cement their policies for as long as possible.
Let it sink in that the right spent fifty years preparing for this, and the Vice President, one of the leaders of their opposition, has done an interview that leads us to believe they didn’t even have a meeting about how to respond.
Do what now…
Well, if the Vice President is shameless enough to ask the American people what we want from the Democratic Party after having fifty years to prepare and do what’s necessary to protect our rights, lets tell her.
For starters, they could stop protecting and funneling money to Henry Cuellar, the lone anti-choice Democrat in the House, ensuring his primary was successful and his progressive, pro-choice challenger lost by less than 300…
