If you’d like to send something too, please feel free. I accidentally left out how ridiculous it was to call Trump a “Communist dictator.” Honey, it’s fascism and authoritarian. The government isn’t going after private corporations and putting their means of production and the free market under public control. If she wants to come out and use her platform, maybe use it to rally the people to protest and to slow/stop the economy, to build community. Not sell your book and “hope the leaders of industry” will save us, come on. Here’s the link if you’d also like to message her just like we should be messaging all of our representatives as well.

Vice President Harris,

I am writing in response to your recent interview with Rachel Maddow and the themes you described in your new book. As someone who has voted for you, I want to express both my deep disappointment and my concern.

In your book, you recount being upset with your organizers for failing to provide a briefing before a podcast interview in which you were asked about your policy positions. With all due respect, that anecdote is troubling. A public servant of your stature should not need to rely on staff to hand you talking points. If you truly stand on principle, you should know where you stand — and be able to communicate those convictions, even under pressure. Leadership is about clarity of purpose and the ability to respond with conviction, not just preparation.

Even more concerning were your remarks in the interview. You suggested that the “titans of industry” might step in to “save the day” as our country faces the threat of authoritarianism. This is naïve at best, and willfully blind at worst. Leaders of industry are not bulwarks against authoritarianism — they are often its first beneficiaries. Concentrated wealth thrives in systems where accountability is weakened, and history shows us again and again that corporations and elites rarely defend democracy when their own power and profits are secure.

You also stated that “capitalism thrives under democracy.” Respectfully, this is a falsehood. Capitalism is not democratic in form or function. It is hierarchical and authoritarian by design: decisions are made at the top, workers must comply, and power flows downward. To conflate capitalism with democracy is to obscure the lived reality of millions of Americans who are subject to the control of corporate leaders who answer only to shareholders, not citizens.

As a citizen, I find it profoundly disheartening that someone I supported could place such misplaced faith in those who exploit workers and communities. Unlike you, they are not feckless. They know exactly what they are doing — consolidating wealth and power — and they will not “save” us from the very conditions that serve them.

Rachel Maddow was right to point out that the wrath of the American people is building, and it is directed toward the systems and institutions that have failed to protect them. If those in public service continue to abdicate responsibility to the very structures of capital that drive inequality and instability, then public trust will erode even further.

America did not revolt against monarchy just to embrace a new form of economic authoritarianism. A fully unregulated capitalist order will never protect workers, and it is not the safeguard of democracy. It is disheartening beyond words that a leader in whom so many placed their hopes would misunderstand this so gravely.

We expect more of you. We expect courage, clarity, and an unflinching defense of democracy on behalf of the people — not wishful appeals to the very elites who profit from our decline.

From a sincere and concerned citizen of the US, Me

Originally Posted By u/KratosLegacy At 2025-09-26 01:43:33 PM | Source