i think a lot of liberals and leftists have been reared into a system of thought that is going to make it very difficult for them to identify who their opponents actually are, and this will result in them making foolish alliances with groups that seek to undermine and trivialize them. that's something we're going to see develop in the upcoming decades, and it's an open question how canadians react to the indigenous liberal cabinet minister that signs away treaty rights, or how americans react to the black woman that throws away roe v wade - these are just examples of how identity can be utilized against the population in ways that it currently seems to be being trained to be compliant to, rather than skeptical about.
the political alliance between white liberals and the brutally oppressed descendants of black american slaves, who needed something resembling freedom before they could join a political movement, was necessary and everybody that was involved in it should be proud about it. but, everything dies, in the end.
i want to be clear here - i'm not actually leveling any of this at kamala harris, who i'm interpreting more as an actress than as a policy maker. kamala harris is a black woman, but she is not a Black Woman and does not represent Black Women. that would have been your karen bass, who is maybe a better representation of the archetype i'm building up.
but, that also makes her particularly pliable, if it's decided that she will represent Black Women, anyways. and i don't get the impression that she's likely to push back, if it gets in the way of her personal ambition.
so, it's a perfect recipe for disaster - a token, pandery candidate that is going to run into all kinds of problems trying to represent a group that she neither understands nor represents and be pressured to do things that she doesn't actually support in order to represent that group. what kamala harris actually represents is the cosmopolitan upper class in the liberal elite, where everybody is culturally white, regardless of their genetic or geographic background. but, she's not going to stand her ground - she's going to cave, instantly. and, hence, she becomes the Black Woman without being one. and, what next? abortion may not be on the top of the list, but you may want to stock up on vodka.