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https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-deep-dive-into-a-harris-word-salad/

Recently Larry Elder provided us with a sample of Kamala Harris’s thinking on various issues. A deep dive into one will demonstrate why her handlers are keeping her sequestered from the media and voters.

Here’s one from the year of her stillborn 2020 presidential primary, when she didn’t get a single vote, and from which she had to ignominiously withdraw:

“So, there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, ‘oh everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody’s starting out from the same place. So, if we’re all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you’re still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need, so that everyone can be on equal footing, and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”

The first problem is Harris’s typical simplistic and redundant writing style. Phrases like “same place,” “back there,” “equal footing,” “equitable treatment” are vague. We assume she’s talking about socio-economic status and education, which leftists and progressives claim are products of the unjust political and economic order and “systemic” oppression. Since these are the keys to success, “resources and support,” i.e. transfers of money, or subsidized goods and services, must be provided to peoples so “we all end up in the same place” ––in other words, equality of result rather than opportunity, the fly in this word salad.

This sentiment is important, since it lies behind numerous dysfunctional leftist policies, and has been obvious in Democrats’ policy proposals since FDR, and took a quantum leap during Barack Obama’s presidency. Today, they have moved even farther left during the Biden-Harris administration, which along with Harris’s vice-president candidate Tim Walz, promise to leave centrism and common sense completely behind, damaging even further our economy and national character in the pursuit of correcting what is called “income inequality.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/08/22/dont-forget-what-harris-and-biden-have-done-to-the-country/

When Americans listen to Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech tonight, they need to tune out the thrill-up-the-leg praise from the media and the audience’s stream of verbal bouquets and ask themselves one question: Are they better off today than they were four years ago. For all but a few, the answer would be resounding “no.”

In the only debate between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan in the 1980 campaign, just days before the election, Reagan asked what the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government called “one of the most important campaign questions of all time:

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” 

Voters said no, and sent Reagan to the White House with 489 electoral votes and sent Carter home with 49.

Forty-four years later, the question is still relevant, and still yields the same response, because:

The unemployment rate was 4.3% in July 2024 – the fourth straight month it has increased – compared to 3.5% in February 2020 when politicians and unelected public health officials began choking the economy with pandemic lockdowns. Even though that comparison is bad enough, it’s somewhat misleading, because there are 5 million fewer Americans in the labor force than there were just before the lockdowns. Adjusting for that, the real unemployment rate, which has never been below 4% while the Biden-Harris regime has been in office, would be 5.2% today.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/21/the-ghosts-of-1968-still-haunt-the-democrats/

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago this week is already invoking memories of another, infamous DNC in the windy city. In 1968, between 9,000 and 10,000 people – mainly students – gathered in parks and outside the convention centre to protest against the Vietnam War. The resulting violence and mayhem was broadcast around the world.

This week, thousands of demonstrators protesting against Israel’s war on Hamas arrived in Chicago. The aim of the Coalition to March on the DNC, which is made up of more than 200 organisations, is to pressure the Democrats to abandon their support for Israel. On Monday, the coalition held a demonstration of about 3,000 people and hopes to up those numbers on Thursday, when vice-president Kamala Harris is due to speak and officially accept the presidential nomination. The coalition’s website brands the current president ‘Genocide Joe Biden’ and warns: ‘Democratic party leadership switching out their presidential nominee does not wash the blood of over 50,000 Palestinians off their hands.’

Some of today’s protesters hope to explicitly invoke the 1968 protests. ‘This is the Vietnam War of our era’, said Hatem Abudayyah, a spokesman for the coalition. ‘The attacks on our movement, our students and our organisations are similar to the attacks on the movement that was trying to stop 1968… I absolutely see those parallels.’

There are indeed some notable parallels between 1968 and now. Just like the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, the recent, unsuccessful attempt on Donald Trump’s life threatened to change the course of history. Similarly, the 1968 DNC protests followed a wave of student unrest across American campuses over an overseas conflict. Just as Biden is stepping aside for Harris, then president Lyndon B Johnson made way for his heir apparent, then vice-president Hubert Humphrey, to take the nomination.

The Democrats would rather not see these parallels, given that the eventual outcome of the 1968 election was victory for Republican Richard Nixon. There is certainly an air of desperation in the many media attempts to dismiss the comparisons. Elderly protest veterans have been wheeled out to say, essentially, that 2024 will be nothing like 1968.