By Ray DiLorenzo ——Bio and Archives--September 7, 2024
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The United States of America is in a dark period, a dark room, if you will. The darkest in our history. Not so much from foreign enemies but from domestic invaders. Our existence is in question. When it entered can be discussed at another time, but we're in that room.
The government believes it can do anything it feels like doing while people tread carefully. We are as top heavy as we can get. The bureaucracy is at a point of being imperious and noxious. The government creates a problem, then sells us the 'fix' that gets us deeper in the hole, solving nothing. And we pay for it all. We always pay for it. A Harris presidency would be the final descent.—the worst decision we can make.
In the meantime, the Democrats say: Get rid of the balloons. Take down the posters. Try to find your car; go home; the Democrat convention is over. But, by all means, let's try to keep the excitement going.
The DNC is trying everything—enlisting celebrities who think they know more than we do, old politicians who definitely know less than we do, and old Democrat operatives like James Carville who have developed muscle cramp from all the fake smiles pretending the Democrats have a winner.
But, what they anticipated and predicted didn't appear. The post-convention bump, bounce, or whatever they call it never happened. Just two weeks after the convention, a bad case of sobriety has taken hold of the Democrats and many of the voters. Having a party is one thing, but putting her into the Oval Office, quite another. I wouldn't be surprised if many of those convention-goers are now asking themselves, "What the heck did we just do?"
Kamala may think she pulled a fast one, not going through the primary process or developing an earned reputation as a hard-working senator or vice president or any other offices she managed to weasel her way into.
Like many other times in her career, Harris bypassed the ritual of hard work, unless you count maneuvering as hard work, getting help from the inside—cronyism, relationships, sexual, and otherwise. She was unpopular in her home state of California and as Vice........