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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.
