The stranger you have been talking politics with at a local Connecticut diner – still opened, amazingly – mentions a particular politician in a cautiously approving tone. You have discovered flaws in the politician’s central nervous system you think should be made known, but you are unsure, because of the snippet of conversation, whether the propaganda victim is armed.
So you proceed cautiously. Here is where a “but” or two is
useful. You say, very softly, non-threateningly, probatively, beginning with a soft
compliment: Yonder politician is a very shrewd and kind man or woman, the sort
that doesn’t beat a wife or a husband or casual sleeping partner... but …
Sometimes that sort of thing works. But … we are living in a
postmodern political world of daggers drawn.
A rather large and confusing “but” hangs threateningly over
recently appointed Democrat National Convention (DNC) presidential candidate Kamala
Harris. In some measure, Harris’ worst enemy is her past self as a top of the
line 27th District Attorney of San Francisco, the 32nd Attorney General of
California, the United States Senator from California, the 49th Vice President
of the United States, and now the potential President-in-Waiting of the United
States.
She certainly covered lots of political ground during her
two decades in the public eye. And the public eye has been meticulously and
permanently recorded on various platforms. Here is room for a score of
potentially damaging “buts” and saw-toothed inconsistencies.
As is the case with most of Vice President Kamala Harris’
political corpus, all of the “buts” have been well hidden in plain sight.
As Vice President, Harris supported President Joe Biden’s
war on the internal combustion engine, which included sorties against fracking,
an extraction process that supplies natural gas, a cleaner energy product than
that supplied by, say, Venezuela or China, both enemies of the United States.
Harris sat mute when Biden, attempting to lower the increased price of energy,
drew heavily on US oil reserves. And she supported volubly Biden’s anti-energy,
pro-environmental, inflation producing measures.
But … now that the White House is within her grasp, Harris
says she supports fracking. Credulous voters in oil producing states will be
pleased to hear it. And, of course, the go-along-to-get-along legacy media in
the United States continues to behave as if it is unimportant to expose to the
voting public such transparent bait-and-switch attempts on the part of a
candidate for the presidency who may rid the U.S. of “fascist” presidential
Republicans such as former President Donald Trump and his supporters, nearly
half the country.
The same “environmentally friendly” Democrats who have for
the last four years been conducting a war on the internal combustion engine
have now turned their fevered attention to what remains of the free market
system and the immutable law of supply and demand. When demand increases and
supply remains stagnant the price of goods and service’s increase until a
balance between the two is achieved. Correlatively, if you want to reduce
prices, you must increase supply.
Like God, the law of supply and demand will not be mocked.
Connecticut, just now, is energy poor. The state could be energy
sufficient if legislators would simply reduce 1) taxes on energy and 2)
burdensome regulations, a hidden tax. Or state legislators might draw out of
the ground a rich vein of natural gas that lies within its reach. Delivery of the
gas to consumers would require the construction of natural gas lines. Or the
state might consider investing in micro-nuclear reactors. Energy suppliers tell
us that the massive amounts of energy needed for AI development – a prospect
now twinkling in the eyes of state legislators -- cannot be mounted on
windmills.
Connecticut’s mostly Democrat neo-progressive state
legislators might also consider that there are two ways to increase budget
surpluses: 1) raise taxes, 2) backfill state budgets with political contributions
made by neo-progressive federal legislators who flood their own budget deficits
with inflated currency and borrowed money, or 3) increase the total number of producers
and taxpayers by reducing unnecessary regulations and taxes, thus spurring
economic growth.
Those who have been paying close attention to the Democrat
National Convention’s moment of joy have only a couple of months to question
Harris and her ebullient prospective Vice President Tim Walz concerning the Harris-Walz stance on taxes,
regulations, the law of supply and demand, and the obvious clash of intentions
between Harris, Vice President for the last four years, and the newly remodeled
Harris presented at the now concluded convention.
Joy is all very well and good, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
The total federal debt in the United States as of December 2023 was $33.1
trillion, $26.5 trillion held by the public and $12.1 trillion in
intergovernmental debt, according to all accountants who are not
neo-progressive frauds.
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