OPINION:
There are so many reasons why no thinking American should vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election that one could write a book on them.
Here’s a short list:
• The inflation everyone is suffering under because of her ignorance of freshman-level economics.
• The threat to our property, safety and security because of her incompetence as our nation’s border czar.
• Her disastrous foreign policy acumen (or lack thereof) that compromises our national sovereignty.
• The big government arrogance that drives her thoughts and actions.
• Her lies about President Biden’s cognitive decline.
• Her disdain for American exceptionalism.
• The overt racism of her anti-racism.
• Her mistreatment of women via transgender ideology.
• The sexual grooming of our children that she celebrates in our public schools.
• Her elitist disregard for the working class.
• Her abject disrespect for the values of good people living in small-town America.
• Her support for cutting funding to police department.
• Her raising money for Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
• Her inability to answer basic questions with anything but an incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words.
• Her evil fixation on executing babies at nine months’ gestation.
The list could go on.
But one thing above all others should lead everyone, regardless of party affiliation, to vote for anybody but Kamala Harris on Tuesday: It’s her political propaganda.
If you’re listening to her frantic last-minute campaign speeches, you can’t help but notice a couple of things. First, she is either a “useful idiot” who is so dense that she doesn’t understand what a Nazi and a fascist is, or second, she is a co-conspirator who is nefariously aligned with other Saul Alinsky acolytes in accusing their opponents of exactly what they and their own party are planning to do.
There is a host of evidence to support this claim. Incidents of the pot duplicitously calling the kettle black are nearly endless: Shouts of “we can’t tolerate your intolerance, we hate hateful people, you are garbage for using the word garbage,” and now, Ms. Harris’ ubiquitous one-string banjo “You’re a fascist because you oppose fascism,” are too numerous to count.
Day in and day out, we are barraged by this tirade. We are told repeatedly that we are mean, deplorable, irredeemable, rude, racist and a threat to democracy. Conservative Jews are now Nazis. Women who want men to stay out of their locker rooms are now sexists. African Americans voting for Donald Trump are now racists. People who follow the admonition of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin are now bigots.
A political party that votes for its presidential candidate rather than unilaterally installing one is now undemocratic. And round and round we go.
The drumbeat of Ms. Harris’ propaganda intended to convince you that “up is down and down is up” is so vacuous that if one isn’t careful, one risks falling into an acquiescent sleep. The repetition of her whining voice alone endangers the body politic’s heart, mind and soul. Her propaganda can paralyze the corporate conscience like a coral snake’s venom immobilizes a poor, unsuspecting frog.
In 1934, Joseph Goebbels said the following at a rally of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in Nuremberg:
“Propaganda is our sharpest weapon in conquering the [nation]. … Our propaganda [is now] perfected to the last detail. … Only an authoritarian government … can do this over the long term.”
Goebbels concluded: “Political propaganda … must become a means of building and keeping power. … The idea of a socialist national community [does] not remain mere theory with us but has become a living reality in the thoughts and feelings of 67 million Germans. Our propaganda of word and deed create[s] the conditions for that. Mastering [propaganda] keeps [our fascism] from the danger of remaining the dream. … Through propaganda, it becomes a hard, steely everyday reality.”
In his play “Hamlet,” Shakespeare famously wrote, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Ms. Harris’ frantic speeches should tell you all you need to know about her. This woman is no patriot. She doesn’t believe in democracy, our Constitution or our republic.
All Kamala Harris believes in is power. If you listen to the vice president’s propaganda, it quickly becomes clear that you are not the fascist; she is.
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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