Thinking about this Carlin quote on the eve of losing my healthcare and being forced back out into the workforce to compete over jobs that aren't there anymore:

"But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians."

People don't vote for candidates to make life better, they vote for stopgaps to make it stop from getting worse. Harris was the stopgap candidate, she was merely going to clot the bleeding.