Kamala Harris: A Representative Figure and a Harbinger of Catastrophe
BY DAVID SOLWAY
SEP 28, 2021
When clowns, children, and illusionists take control of something that used to be called a national destiny, we are observing a house built of Play Doh, a castle in the sand where kids play at being architects, a Potemkin village that is nothing but a Hollywood set. This is America today, and by extension, the rest of the Western world. One can play at the venerated games of policy mongering, power moves, fiscal manipulations, and personal ambition for only so long before the iron hand of reality sweeps everything away and leaves a shambles in its stead. For the world is a serious place and can be relied on to deal ruthlessly with self-interested incompetents and cognitive misfits, if not today, tomorrow for sure.
... Of course, Kamala Harris is not only a single individual but a representative figure of a nation in decline—a nation preoccupied with internal power games, with unfriending and deplatforming, with political correctness, with critical race theory, with wind and solar, with gender studies and feminist belvedering, with Wokeness, identity politics, and pervasive make-believe (aka fake news). The consequences are real enough, but the source of the malaise is a descent into a psychological region of unstinted triviality and historical irrelevance.
... Kamala Harris is a sorcerer’s apprentice, an unserious person who needs to be taken seriously for the irreparable harm so juvenile a political aspirant can cause. But she is also emblematic of a country—or at any rate half a country—that has lost all sense of realpolitik, of the harsh and unforgiving nature of the real world that will not long tolerate the ludic fictions of unserious people and professional fantasists blind to historical necessity. They have forgotten the axiom that governs the fate of nations.
The only game that’s real is the end-game.
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Democrats plan to resurrect Kamala Harris’s reputation
September 29, 2021
Currently, Kamala’s only advantage is that no one is yet hollering “F*** Veep Harris” at sports events and concerts. As between a corrupt and senile president and an incompetent and unpleasant veep, it’s to be hoped that neither of them gets out the Democrat vote in the 2024 midterms.
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