Harris’ ascendance demonstrates that our society has become a
sound bite society par excellence. It only takes a focused effort by the media,
and not a particularly intense one at that, to turn an imminently mediocre
individual into the hottest star in the political firmament. Suddenly, the
individual with the aforementioned low approval rating and one who managed to
get about barely 1% of the vote during the 2020 Democratic primary, is now the
best thing that has ever happened to our country.
Part of this turn of events is the fact that people in our
nation are enamored with the idea of a part black, part Indian woman becoming
president. It is my belief that such a mindset was what originally propelled
Barak Obama to the presidency. Obama was a man who had little to show for his
senate career. He did not have anything particularly outstanding about him. The
fact that a minority candidate made him appealing to the masses who wanted to
finally break the hold that while males had on the presidency. Thus, he became
a symbol for a nation wanting to tell itself that it had broken the chains of
prejudice. Suddenly, many people were willing to vote for someone with little
to commend him simply because the idea of having a minority president was too
good to resist. Once he was in office, his mediocrity came quickly to the fore.
Under Obama, race relations in our country were worse than they had been in
probably 50 years. Remember “if I had a son he would look like Treyvon Martin”
and the “beer submit”? Obama’s signature “accomplishment,” Obama Care, has done
more to wreck the already cumbersome and inefficient health care insurance
system than just about any other legislation.
And so, we arrive at the current season. The allure of
having a female president may just be too strong for many to pass up. Many will
no doubt be thinking that voting for such a person will demonstrate that they
are enlightened and sophisticated. A person whom more than 70% of the
population seemed to completely disregard just a few weeks ago, is now in the
lead in many polls. The fact that the policies that she embraces will continue
to wreck our country and will further the deterioration of our society is of
little consequence, some think, in order to finally have a woman president.
Just to mention one of those policies, Harris thinks that price controls are a
good idea. Something that has been tried by communist and socialist societies
time and time again and which has proven to be disastrous time and time again,
is one of the important aspects of Harris’ agenda. She also complains that
Trump would give tax breaks to corporations and the rich, the obvious
implication being that taxes should be increased on those folks rather than
lowered.
If Harris were an economics student, she would get a big fat
F. Why? Because making corporations’ price of business higher means higher
prices for those further down the line, the ones that the Democrats supposedly
want to help. Southwest, Citi, Walmart will simply raise their prices and
interest rates in order to recoup the losses from having to pay higher taxes or
wages. Not only so, but if prices are controlled by the government, many will
simply cease producing goods because the cost of doing so will be too high to
sustain and their profit margin will shrink into oblivion. That will in turn
lead to shortages which will, once again, lead to higher prices and the circle
will continue to perpetuate itself. Is that so difficult to understand? For the
left the answer apparently is YES!
I must admit that it is tempting to despair in the light of
such developments. It is not easy to see the headlong rush of many of our
fellow countrymen to go over the proverbial cliff and not be affected by it.
The uncertainty of the nation’s future causes us to pause and wonder where it
will all lead. However, we would do well to always remember that little three
letter word “but”: But we have God on our side. As the amazing passage
in the Psalms tells us:
“If it had not been
the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Then they had
swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Then the waters had
overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Then the proud waters
had gone over our soul.
Blessed be
the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Our soul is escaped
as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are
escaped.
Our help is in the
name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” (Psalm 124:2-8, KJV)
Excellent read!
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