Harris is not so much a flip-flopper as a padder.
An Opportunistic Mediocrity
In theory, it should be hard for Kamala Harris to win the presidency of the United States.
Under pressure, Harris just completed her first “live interview”—a disastrous performance that was mysteriously taped, edited, and emotionally supported by her co-interviewed running mate. During the interview, she claimed that her values remain the same even though her manifestations of them have admittedly changed. Translated, that means for the next 70 days, she will advocate for popular policies antithetical to her own values, which will inevitably resurface after the election once the current façade fades away.
She is a Berkelyite who, as attorney general of California, had a proud far-left tenure. The lifelong large corpus of Harris’s left-wing enthusiasm and causes are only now being unearthed. But they are singular in that her riffs of embracing wokism, being a radical, erasing ICE, doing away with private health insurance, or being the last person in the room when Joe Biden made his disastrous decisions were all given to sympathetic media or pandered to crowds.
As a result, she often doubled down. Her emphatic statements were intended to stun audiences. Unlike other leftists, she really was a proud woke, radical and wanted everyone else to be one as well—broadcasting her leftism as openly as she is now cloaking it.
In one respected survey, Harris’s voting record was rated as the most left-leaning in the United States Senate. If she voted to the left of the admitted hardcore socialist Bernie Sanders, what exactly does that make her?
Otherwise, Harris was undistinguished, and often overtly so, as she was exposed as inane in Senate hearings. Her envisioned 2019-2020 primary bid proved an utter disaster. When liberal Democrat voters nationwide were first made aware of her radical record, her left-wing agendas, and her weird wash/rinse/spin word-salad chats, they ran.
Harris’s well-funded 2019 campaign quickly blew up early. Indeed, she never entered much less won a single primary–and captured no delegates through voting.
In the frenzy following George Floyd’s death, and the mayhem and nationwide rioting and violence of late spring and summer, panicked 2020 nominee Joe Biden announced in advance he would select a diversity candidate as a running mate. And in no time, and under increasing pressure to trump his braggadocious promise, he boxed himself in by assuring his handlers that his running mate would be preselected as a black woman.
Given there were then no black female governors and only two black women in the Senate, Kamala Harris was a choice of last resort—even though, as a candidate and competitor of Joe Biden, she had condemned him before a nationwide audience as a veritable racist who had habitually cozied up to segregationists. When she labels her own running mate a racist it becomes hard to take her charges of racism against Trump seriously.
As vice president, Harris predictably proved inept. In a variety of tasks as “border czar” and point woman on space exploration, she proved not merely clueless but embarrassingly so—sappy, cackling, and variously labeled by ex-staff and Democratic insiders as “out of her league” and “way over her head.” Her chief role was to break a sometimes 50/50 deadlocked Senate and therefore, in every one of those votes, owns the passage of hard-left legislation that often turned disastrous.
As Biden’s cognitive decline accelerated at a geometric rate, a widely derided Harris was seen by the Bidens as Joe’s Spiro Agnew insurance policy: a vice president so bumbling and unimaginable as a future president that if Biden only breathed, he would be still judged preferable to the travesty of a Harris succession.
Biden utterly imploded on June 13 during a stress-test national debate. His collapse ended the 42-month-long charade that he was “fit as a fiddle.” In 24 hours, Biden was transmogrified by his handlers from an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like health nut to physically and mentally unable to continue as the Democratic nominee.
Left unsaid was that his diving polls, not his debility, doomed Biden. Otherwise, he would have survived his latest public humiliation had his approval ratings been respectable. Harris’s race, gender, and status as vice president made it impossible not to anoint her as the new Democratic candidate.
Her machinations to preempt any challengers were achieved almost instantaneously in the same anti-democratic fashion as the removal of Biden himself from the ticket. In the way of the current Democrats, whatever the billionaire donor class and the DEI apparat decide is reified almost instantly by fiat.
We now suffer a zombie presidency for the next five months. Biden’s own party insists that he is too enfeebled to campaign as a nominee but not too demented to serve as president. Weirder still, a presidential candidate, who has never in her life won a primary and just days ago was written off by her own party as linguistically challenged, is being reinvented in 70 days as the second coming of Barack Obama.
Harris 2.0, 3.0, 4.0… --->READ MORE HERE
And the more they changed, the more they stayed the same.
“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Vice President Kamala Harris said during a pre-taped CNN interview on August 29th. She is right. Her left-wing, progressive values have not changed at all during her entire political career. These include her beliefs in massive wealth redistribution, a big intrusive government, distrust of law enforcement officers, providing a path to U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants, and a worldview revolving around group identity and intersectionality rather than the individual.
Vice President Harris was responding to a question that CNN’s Dana Bash asked about Harris’s flip-flops on a number of key policy proposals, such as Medicare for All and a ban on fracking, since becoming the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee. She supported both of these radical policies during her failed 2020 presidential campaign but has now reversed herself in pursuit of moderate voters.
Kamala Harris’s change of positions on specific policies is a tactical maneuver designed to fool the American people into believing that she is a centrist, which she is not. But by declaring that “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Kamala Harris was sending a signal to her progressive supporters. She wanted to assure them that, whatever flip-flops she feels she must make to get elected, they could count on her to support their left-wing agenda if she wins the election
Thus, it is no surprise that major progressive organizations have endorsed Kamala Harris for president. For example, Progressive Democrats of America voted to support her candidacy, the first time it has ever endorsed a candidate in the general presidential election. Alan Minsky, the executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, said, “When Biden stepped down and Harris stepped up, we felt a huge groundswell of support from our base for Harris — and that included many of our activists.”
The left-wing progressive base of the Democratic Party will expect payback for its “huge groundswell of support.” And they will get it. Kamala Harris’s values reflect progressive values. And, by her own admission, her values have not changed.
“Instituting a wealth tax is imperative to rebalance wealth distribution in America,” Progressive Democrats of America states on its website.
Kamala Harris shares this progressive value, which is centered on the belief that massive wealth redistribution is necessary to build a society based on equity and economic justice.
Thus, the Democratic presidential nominee’s economic plan includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains – i.e., paper profits on unsold assets- for American households whose wealth exceeds a $100 million threshold. The “wealth” tax and all the other redistributionist taxes Kamala Harris is proposing, such as her job-killing rise in the corporate tax rate above the rate levels of U.S.’s major competitors, would fund progressive giveaways that Harris supports.
In short, Kamala Harris is a tax-and-spend progressive redistributionist.
Another progressive value that Kamala Harris embraces and that she has not changed during her political career is her belief in federal government control over many aspects of the economy and over our daily lives. In keeping with this value, she recently proposed federal price controls on grocery prices to combat what she claims is price gouging in an industry with a paltry profit margin of between 1 and 3%. --->READ MORE HERE
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