Kamala Harris cannot escape this fact: she's the Vice President of the United States, her boss is Joe Biden, she's participated in cabinet meetings, his policies are hers. Bidenomics, inflation draining the money supplies of ordinary Americans, unending financial and military support for corrupt and self-destructive Ukraine, unquestioning and almost religious financial and military support for Israel's genocidal and ethnic cleansing project against Palestinians, a lack of urgency about securing America's border with Mexico.
She also cannot escape the fact that she participated in a coup engineered against President Biden, preventing him from assuming the Democratic nomination. Her allies in this undemocratic action, led by Senator Charles "Chuck" Schumer and others, referred to their coup d'etat as "a process." No one voted for Kamala Harris. I recall that in January 2020, a day or two before the Iowa Caucus, she dropped out of the presidential race without gaining the support of even one delegate.
What's going on here? If one goes by her reception by Democrats in the packed United Center arena in Chicago last August, Kamala Harris must be as popular as Madonna was in her heyday. Yet, she became Vice President in spite of a failed 2019-2020 campaign. Now, boosted by the Chicago convention's glitz and glamor approach that coated a void with a pretty painting called Joy, she'll face off against former President Trump.
Joy was the word going around in the immediate wake of Joe Biden's dismissal. The man is senile; I've known it since 2019. Anyone who's taken care of an elderly relative losing their cognitive faculties could discern that Biden was lacking the mental sharpness he had displayed when he was Obama's Vice President.
I don't like Biden, I don't approve of his policies or record as a politician, but the way he was fucked over by his own party should be an indication of the amorality and viciousness of people like Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama (who had an important role to play in the affair), and Kamala Harris. Harris was celebrated at the Chicago convention like she's a politician of significant accomplishments, rather than a kind of psychological operation perpetrated on half the country--a counter to the odious Trump, whose followers believe she's a stupid California liberal. She's actually a scheming political climber who's made it almost to the top--not a mark of stupidity at all. As a player in the power structures running this collapsing country, Harris knows how to play the game, even though her unappealing personality hinders her chances of connecting with those voters who haven't been brainwashed into believing that Donald Trump is some kind of monster, or an aberration.
In the sense that Trump in many ways is a typical American politician, consider a few of his activities during his previous administration. He dropped lots of bombs on Afghanistan and Iraq, as did George W. Bush and Obama, as did Biden. Trump continued Obama's sanctions on Venezuela, and also attempted a coup d'etat on Maduro. Trump, along with Biden afterwards, like every other President since Harry Truman, worked to aid Israel at the expense of Palestinians.
Trump and Harris, when they debate in Philadelphia on September 10, will in many ways be the same person when it comes to a belief in maximalist U.S. foreign policy. They both support Israel over the rights of Palestinians--by their actions they have made this clear. The U.S. military industrial complex will benefit from either candidate winning in November.
Our political system is run by cruel and insane people. A debate between a Vice President who attained the position of nominee for her party in a bypass of the will of American voters, and a former President who proved in four years on the job his inability to rise above the nightmarish desires of his advisors, hellbent on world conquest, will simply amount to a personality clash, because serious issues aren't seriously debated in political debates televised by corporate owned news media outlets.
We live in celebrity land; a nice joy-making cover for the killers who really run America.
Vic Neptune
