A Star is Born

As a political candidate Senator Kamala Harris is superb. She is intelligent, witty, accomplished and, occasionally, combative. At 54, she’s neither too old nor too young. She is a woman and a person of color; two noteworthy attributes in today’s politics.

Journalists used to call out this kind of baloney

She is attractive, with a smile that can light up a room. Attractive is, of course, shallow and subjective. But neither political party actively recruits grotesque candidates. Kamala Harris checks many boxes. A deeper look at candidate Kamala Harris is required.

Kamala-nomics

Kamala Harris has unusual economic views. She is, apparently, not impressed with low, record-breaking, U.S. unemployment rates. At a campaign gaggle in SC, Harris said, “Well yeah, people are working. They’re working two and three jobs.” It is a long debunked claim but apparently still useful.

Next, she pivoted to her uncommon take on the stock market. Despite 100+ record closes since Trump’s election, Harris scoffed, “That’s fine if you have stocks.” In 2017, Gallup found that 54% of respondents owned stocks or stock funds. This is Kamala-nomics. Unfortunately, it gets worse.

Pass the Fruit Basket

After educating the massive 1,200 person crowd on the failing U.S. economy, Harris shifted to her campaign platform. She promises to eliminate “what wakes people up in the middle of the night.” Thus, she calls her list of “solutions” the “3AM Agenda.” Her list is ever-expanding but here are some of the major items:

Musings from Outer Space

It is impossible to know the true cost of Kamala’s promises, but they won’t come cheap. The funding, Harris implies, will come from reversing the Trump tax cuts. Just to humor her, Let’s analyze that by the numbers. Here are the known stats.

First, reversing the $1.5 trillion tax cut would likely return the country to 2% annual GDP growth, incur higher unemployment, and drop the Dow back into the 18,300-range. This would be a 31% or $2 trillion decline. Second, her promises add up to over $70 trillion (rough estimate). Perhaps it is Kamala’s extraordinary math skills that led fellow California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, to publicly support Joe Biden.

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Even Progressives Dislike Progressives

The exact number of progressives in the U.S. is unknown, but both coasts (and many major cities) lean progressive. The “Progressive Caucus” in the House of Representatives has 90 members. Yet despite Kamala’s very progressive agenda, many dislike her.

Harris was a Prosecutor and, as such, part of the “unjust” justice system. To many progressives, that is a disqualifier. The New York Times openly questioned her progressive bona fides. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the hash-tag #KamalaHarrisIsACop is a “real thing.”

Show Me the Money

Money and politics go hand in hand. Fundraising is an early indicator of elder support, while a high number of donors show youthful enthusiasm. Both are required to win elections. Harris has neither. She raised about $12M in Q2 from 279,000 donors.

Long-shot candidate Pete Buttigieg raised $25M from 294,000 contributors, while Sanders netted $24M from an astonishing 900,000 donors. Early frontrunner Biden pulled in $22M from 256,000. Even Warren topped Harris with $19 million and 384,000 supporters, besting her by 38%.

Hate America Club

Kamala Harris’s pitch mirrors the other Democrat presidential candidates. They all seek to convince voters that the economy is bad, our borders are secure, and illegal immigrants deserve free healthcare; also, sanctuary cities are lawful.

Not to mention that hating Trump and his voters creates a better America. The pitch is illogical, shrill and, like a teenager’s, dependent on incessant whining, pestering, belittling, accusing, name-calling, nagging and complaining. Ultimately this massive derision is directed at the United States of America. Really? That’s the plan? Would candidate Harris stand and without qualification say the United States of America is the greatest nation that has ever existed?

She won’t, and none of the other Democrat candidates would either. Yet, that is an undeniable fact. And here are more facts: the border crisis is real. The soaring economy is real. “Post-birth abortions” are infanticide. Journalists used to call out this kind of baloney, especially when it’s sliced this thick, but they’ve stopped journalisting so voters must do their own analysis. Pete Buttigieg, you’re next.