Kamala Harris: Darling of billionaires

Till yesterday little was known to the world about Kamala Harris, likely choice of Democrats to be the next president of United States. It may be of some interest to the people living outside the US to know more about the likely presidential candidate.

It is a historic opportunity for the US citizens and the world that Democrats are in disarray and selection of Kamala Harris demonstrates once and for all that they don’t at all care for real democracy. Instead they chose to elevate a party insider who is backed by billionaires, lobbyists, and Super PACs. It is even more apparent that they are corporate controlled when one considers that Biden only stepped down after the billionaires withheld donations. In the hours since Biden announced he would not seek reelection, and his quick endorsement of Kamala, the anti-Democratic party raised US$50 million, suggesting that the big donors are lining up to support yet another pro-war, corporate candidate.

A follow up with some opposition research about the candidate the anti-democratic party appears to be coronating who has zero delegates. First, let’s look closely at her record as Attorney General, California’s Top Cop.

Her office fought tooth and nail against an order to decrease the inmate population after the Supreme Court ruled that the severe overpopulation of their prisons amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Her AG office’s attorneys explicitly argued that prisoners were needed to prop up the state’s firefighters needed to combat the wildfire crisis – these inmates were making one dollar an hour for this dangerous work.

Kamala jailed the parents of young people who were skipping classes. And laughed about it.

In 2014, Kamala refused to investigate a series of police shootings in San Francisco, where she had previously been District Attorney, ignoring pleas to do so following the police murder of Michael Brown.

Now let’s look at the Gaza genocide and where she really stands. Her presidential campaign coffers include access to US$5,395,227 of contributions from AIPAC.

She has stood by as the Biden administration has provided approximately US$25 million a day in military aid to Israel that has enabled them to carry out this genocide against the people of Gaza.

She co-sponsored a resolution condemning Barak Obama for his failure to veto a UN resolution denouncing illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

She waxed poetic about the Israeli Supreme Court’s architectural design, saying “The beauty of the architecture and spirit of design left a lasting impression…The Court, like Israel, is a beautiful home to democracy and justice in a region where radicalism and authoritarianism all too often shape government.”

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Between her political history and her dismal polling, she is clearly a terrible candidate. But the billionaires love her. She has raised tens of millions since Biden’s endorsement of her on X (formerly Twitter).