The level of chaos and dysfunction the left has wrought on this country is reaching a crescendo.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee for president. She did not earn one vote to achieve that status. She just had to stab her boss in the back.
Under progressive leadership, we have become a nation of enablers. All kinds of crimes are no longer taken seriously. Progressive district attorneys refuse to prosecute criminals, and bail reform laws put dangerous repeat offenders back on the street almost immediately.
Antisemitic mobs are protesting in the street, burning the American flag, assaulting police officers and defacing public monuments with hate-filled graffiti. Harris would like to have their vote.
Progressives have cynically and intentionally fragmented this country into competing “identities” based on ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background and class, and then set about pitting each group against one another. The whole concept of being an American is being washed away by people who see the world in zero-sum terms.
We have a Supreme Court justice who says she can’t tell us what a woman is because she’s not a biologist, and we have a president who wants to “reform” the court so it is more easily subject to political pressure.
Millions of people cross the southern border illegally only to be granted an astounding array of benefits to which American citizens themselves don’t have access.
Progressive cities, which once proudly declared themselves “sanctuaries,” are now struggling to keep up with the cost of caring for illegal migrants and the crimes they commit.
Democrats have condemned millions of poor children to failing public schools, giving them no way out. Only the wealthy are able to make a better choice for their children.
According to the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, on a single night in January 2023, around 653,104 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States, a more than 12% increase from 2020.
Food prices are up sharply since Biden and Harris took office, and we’re being asked to applaud the fact prices are still rising, only more slowly than they were before.
Making matters worse, instead of promising to rein in the ridiculous level of federal spending, which caused the inflation in the first place, Harris says if elected she will institute federal price controls. That puts her in the company of socialist giants like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.
At the same time she is proposing socialist strategies to deal with the soaring prices she helped create, Harris is asking you to believe she is no longer a progressive.
Americans are expected to forget everything Harris has ever done or said and accept the new version of the vice president her campaign is carefully crafting to perfectly align with the current political environment.
The level of contempt for the American people required for Harris to believe the electorate will accept whatever she pretends to be to get elected is astounding.
To understand how Harris will govern if elected, one need only look at how she governed previously. What Harris says today means nothing. She’s a politician running for office, and like her boss, she will say whatever’s necessary to win in November.
That Bernie Sanders and the “Squad” are enthusiastic supporters of Harris should tell you everything you need to know about her true political leanings.
Harris’ campaign is based on “magical charisma,” as Jen Psaki put it, and pixie dust, rather than on competence and fitness to serve, which is why she is so hesitant to take questions from the press.
Her campaign knows that if the press ever had the opportunity and inclination to challenge Harris directly, the magic would quickly dissipate under the scrutiny, exposing just how unserious a candidate Harris really is. So, she hides behind an army of surrogates whom her campaign has retained to speak on her behalf.
Nothing in Harris’ past — her record as a California district attorney or U.S. senator, or her performance as vice president — gives me any confidence Harris is ready to sit in the Oval Office.
Right now, Harris strikes me as someone who is playing politics. She’s having a good time and enjoying her moment in the sun, but what she fails to grasp is the utter enormity of the job she is pursuing.
Harris will be overwhelmed and over her head on day one. Global events unfold very quickly and in unpredictable ways, and Harris has a nearly vertical learning curve.
Iran, Russia, China and a whole host of terror groups are all perched like vultures waiting for any sign of weakness or indecision they can exploit. To think Harris has the skill to lead this country through that kind of perilous global environment is wishful thinking — at best.
The world is on fire and I simply cannot see Harris being a match for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
This election is as consequential as any in recent memory, and the cost of blind partisanship has suddenly gotten very expensive.
Go ahead, vote for Kamala Harris and see what you get.
Chris Roemer resides in Finksburg. He can be contacted at chrisroemer1960@gmail.com.
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