Kamala Harris Is An Oligarchs Wet Dream By Caitlin Johnstone!!!!
(2019-06-28 at 13:29:21 )

Kamala Harris Is An Oligarchs Wet Dream by Caitlin Johnstone

California Senator Kamala Harris won the Democratic presidential debate last night.

It was not a close contest.

She will win every debate she enters during this election cycle. If she becomes the nominee, she will win every debate with President Trump.

Night two of the debates was just as vapid and ridiculous as night one.

Candidates interrupted and talked over each other a lot, questions about foreign policy were avoided like the plague to prevent NBC viewers from thinking critically about the mechanics of empire, and Eric Swalwell kept talking despite everyone in the universe desperately wanting him not to.

Buttigieg and Gillibrand did alright, Bernie played the same note he has been playing for decades, and everyone was reminded how bad Joe Biden is at talking and thinking.

Mr. Biden has been treated kindly by polls and regarded as a "frontrunner" in this race exclusively because for the last decade he has not had to do anything other than be associated with Barack Obama.

Now that he has had to step out of that insulated role and interact with reality again, everyone is seeing the same old garbage right-wing Democrat who s-cks at making himself look appealing just as badly as he did in his last two presidential campaigns. By the end of the night, even Michael Bennet was slapping him around.

The moment everyone is talking about was when Ms Harris created a space for herself to attack Mr. Biden on his citing his collaboration with segregationists as an example of his ability to reach across the aisle and "get things done".

Ms Harris had not been called upon to speak, and once given the go-ahead by moderator Rachel Maddow after interjecting went way beyond the 30 seconds she had been allotted in tearing Biden apart. She skillfully took control of the stage and engineered the entire space for the confrontation by sheer dominance of personality, and Mr. Biden had no answer for it.

That is the moment everyone is talking about. But Ms Harris had already been owning the debate prior to that.

The goal of a political debate is to make yourself look appealing and electable to your audience.

You can do that by having a very good platform, or you can do it with charisma and oratory skills.

It turns out that Ms Kamala Harris is really, really good at doing the latter.

She made frequent and effective appeals to emotion, she built to applause lines far more skillfully than anyone else on the stage, she kept her voice unwavering and without stammer, she made herself look like a leader by admonishing the other candidates to stop talking over each other, and she hit all the right progressive notes you are supposed to hit in such a debate.

Unlike night one of the debates, night two had a clear, dominant winner.

If you were a casual follower of United States politics and did not have a favorite coming into the debate, you likely went away feeling that Ms Harris was the best.

This was not a fluke.

Ms Harris has been cultivating her debate skills for decades, first in the Howard University debate team where she is said to have "thrived", then as a prosecutor, then as a politician, and she will be able to replicate the same calibre of performance in all subsequent debates.

There is more to getting elected than debate skills, but it matters, and in this area no one will be able to touch her.

Ms Harris won the debate despite fully exposing herself for the corporate imperialist she is in the midst of that very debate.

While answering a question about climate change she took the opportunity to attack President Trump on foreign policy, not for his insane and dangerous hawkishness but for not being hawkish enough, on both North Korea and Russia.

"You asked what is the greatest national-security threat to the United States. It is Donald Trump," Ms Harris said.

"You want to talk about North Korea, a real threat in terms of its nuclear arsenal. But what does he do?

He embraces Kim Jong Un, a dictator, for the sake of a photo op.

Mr. Putin. You want to talk about Russia?

He takes the word of the Russian president over the word of the United States of American intelligence community when it comes to a threat to our democracy and our elections."

Ms Harris is everything the United States empires unelected power establishment wants in a politician: charismatic, commanding, and completely unprincipled.

In that sense she is like Mr. Obama, only better.

Ms Harris was one of the 2020 presidential hopefuls who came under fire at the beginning of the year when it was reported that she had been reaching out to Wall Street executives to find out if they would support her campaign.

Executives named in the report include billionaire Blackstone CEO Jonathan Gray, 32 Advisors Robert Wolf, and Centerbridge Partners founder Mark Gallogly.

It was reported two entire years ago that Harris was already courting top Hillary Clinton donors and organizers in the Hamptons.

She has n’ot been in politics very long, but her campaign contributions as a senator have come from numerous plutocratic institutions.

President Trump supporters like to claim that the president is fighting the establishment, citing the open revulsion that so many noxious establishment figures have for him.

But the establishment does not hate President Trump because he opposes them; he does not oppose existing power structures in any meaningful way at all.

The reason the heads of those power structures despise President Trump is solely because he sucks at narrative management and puts an ugly face on the ugly things that the United States of Americas permanent government is constantly doing.

He is bad at managing their assets.

Ms Kamala Harris is the exact opposite of this.

She would be able to obliterate noncompliant nations and dead-end the left for eight years, and look good while doing it.

She has got the skills to become president, and she will have the establishment backing as well.

Keep an eye on this one.

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