“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln, quoting Jesus (Matthew 12:25) on the eve of the first American Civil War. Now, as the nation holds its breath and hopes that there won’t be a second, Kamala Harris has given us a reminder of just how deep the divisions in American society really are, and how dim the prospects are at this point that they will be healed.
Kamala Harris has not only vowed to get rid of Columbus Day itself, officially replacing it with its newly minted woke obverse, Indigenous Peoples’ Day; she has also spoken about Columbus’ discovery of America in wholly negative terms, as if all the Europeans brought to the New World was imperialism, disease, and destruction. Taken to their logical end point, Harris’ words would mean that the presence of people of European descent on the North American continent is wholly evil, and should be eradicated. This would also mean that the United States of America, the country she wants to lead, is a mistake.
It’s not at all surprising that Harris would feel this way. This is mainstream thought on the left these days. But how long can this country last with so many people within it who hate it and think its very foundations are illegitimate? What will be the outcome of the presidency of a person who thinks that the country she leads is evil at its core? The left has been internationalist, socialist and America-Last for quite some time now, and there is no doubt that a Harris presidency would continue in that vein, but how many such presidencies can America actually stand?
Back in 2020, when Harris was running her first ill-fated presidential campaign, she was asked: “Would you support efforts on a federal level to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day, and why does that matter so much?” Harris answered with an example of the sharp and insightful analysis for which she has become famous: “Sure. Sure. Yeah. And wh— And why it matters, is, um, to your very point. We have to remember history. And back — this question, I think, really, is connected to the last question about our morals. And our — and, our compass. And our goals. And our aspirations. We have to remember our history. Uncomfortable — to your point about truths — though it may make us.”
That was so much blather. Nothing makes leftists uncomfortable about discussing the evils of European settlement in the New World and the founding of the United States. They eat up such stuff, and the more luridly demonized the Europeans are, the better. In 2021, Harris went whole hog, saying: --->READ MORE HERE
Panicked Democrats are ratcheting up the only tactics they’ve got.
Since the Harris/Walz team can’t best the dynamic Trump/Vance duo on substance, policy, vision, likeability, or charisma, their floundering campaign and media allies are having to rely entirely on the tactics they know best: shameless projection, the demonization of their Republican opponents, and hysterical fear-mongering. A Tuesday article at the far-Left Salon site managed to serve up examples of all three.
“’Brain flaws’: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease,” by Salon senior politics writer Chauncey DeVega, is just as unhinged as the headline suggests. Rightfully worried that the 2024 election will be a repeat of Trump’s 2016 upset victory over Hillary Clinton, DeVega tried to help his readers make sense of the unpredictable political landscape by getting the opinions of “a range of experts.” Since post-COVID Americans view “experts” with a lower degree of trust and confidence than they do used-car salesmen, this may not have been the wisest choice for bringing clarity to people, but Salon readers are only seeking confirmation bias anyway. And these “experts” delivered.
Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, told DeVega it’s a tragedy that such “a large portion of the American electorate has been so propagandized and manipulated.” She’s right about that except that she’s referring to Trump supporters, when in fact that large portion of propagandized and manipulated voters are Democrats.
Similarly, it’s comical when she claims that a Trump victory in November will steer us toward a “criminal autocracy,” when we have just spent four years being steered off a cliff under the Biden crime family. Her assertions that if Trump wins “he will mobilize the government to go after his political enemies” and that “Right-wing media will be a propaganda arm of the government” are jaw-dropping examples of projection. The Democrats, whose bootlicking media allies could fairly be called the “state media,” have spent the last eight years weaponizing the Deep State and government agencies to target their political enemies, most obviously Trump.
Stewart’s conclusion that under Trump “we’ll see significant economic damage for the middle class, further losses of rights for women, further degradation of voting rights and a dramatic loss of respect for the U.S. on the international stage” will actually be what happens under a Harris/Walz regime; under Trump we will see exactly the opposite.
The next “expert” is Dr. Gary Slutkin, a “distinguished epidemiologist” formerly with the World Health Organization (WHO), which has been exposed since the pandemic as a politically weaponized globalist institution full of liars and incompetents. Slutkin warns that the Make America Great Again movement is “an epidemic disease, infecting many through what I call ‘brain flaws.’” MAGA, he claims, “is a dangerous and lethal syndrome of what I describe as ‘Authoritarian Violence Disorder.’ Donald Trump is a massive superspreader. The contagion and the moral disengagement it causes provokes cruelty and obedience.” --->READ MORE HERE
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