by Edward Ring
If you have ever encountered the astonishing hatred that San Francisco Bay Area Democrats have for anything Republican, much less MAGA Republicans, then you will understand why Kamala Harris could become the next president of the United States.
This is not reality-based hate. It is nurtured by decades of propaganda, supported by trillions of dollars of great technological wealth, and most recently by the most powerful tools of mass hypnosis and Pavlovian conditioning the world has ever seen. If you question any of their pieties—climate, race, gender, Trump—you are instantly and forever dehumanized. There is no changing their minds. There is no room for nuance. There is no tolerance for alternative perspectives. You are hated. You are trash. Surrender. Die.
This is Kamala Harris’ core constituency.
Unless you’ve experienced the withering rebukes of San Francisco progressives or been the target of their white sizzling rage, you might think that Harris’ Portland-style babble actually indicates a charitable, if somewhat intellectually mediocre soul. Her bird-brained new-age predictions are certainly more amusing than frightening:
“It’s time for us to do what we’ve been doing, and that time comes every day.”
“The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, the passage of time has a huge significance.”
“You exist in the context of everything you live in and everything that came before you.”
It’s difficult to attribute malice to such phrases. They are the words of an empty fool, not a tyrant. On the other hand, Harris’s tendency to nod in agreement as a way of emphasizing literally everything she says is more than slightly sinister. It’s a patronizing, passive-aggressive way of conveying what is, in fact, a terrifying arrogance. I’m right. You’ll agree. Nod with me. That’s how it is.
Oh my.
This is who Kamala Harris really is and this is what we’re up against:
California is run by a coalition of extreme environmentalists, opportunistic business interests, the “renewable energy” lobby, the Homeless Industrial Complex, the DEI Industrial Complex, public sector unions, including the fiercely partisan and woke teachers union, and Hollywood, all backed by tech billionaires who command staggering wealth and influence.
At its core, it is a coalition of lunatics, con men, and immoral pragmatists. A prominent Democrat who has worked on some real reforms once told me, “We had the Republicans to honor.” A businessman who supports Democrats shared a similar sentiment with me. “Why should we support Republicans?” he said, “we already have them.” Yet Republicans, especially “MAGA Republicans,” are a threat. Go and understand.
This is a machine, and Harris is just a cog. Meanwhile, California is broken. People can’t afford homes or any other basic necessities, including gas, electricity, water, food, tuition, or health care. And the reason California is broken is because the economy is dominated by leeches who profit from inefficiency and failure and hide behind despondent narratives—climate doom, race, and gender trauma.
Not every Democrat in California has bought into the progressive narrative. Not every one of them has become usefully terrified by climate catastrophes, pervasive white bigotry, and MAGA fascists. Not every one of them has succumbed to apocalyptic fear and thus succumbed to blinding hatred of the supposed deniers, bigots, Nazis, and MAGA stormtroopers on the brink of world destruction.
No. Some of them are just practical. Want to do business in California? Play ball with the Democratic machine. Want to make incremental changes? Maybe find some nonpartisan island of sanity and work on at least one useful reform? Be a Democrat. To have credibility in California, that’s the price of admission. In other words, there are Democrats in California who are trying to do something good.
The problem with this otherwise sound reasoning is that even Democrats with mostly good ideas have to have at least one issue where they are wildly, fatally flawed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a perfect example. On many key issues, he is a breath of fresh air, a voice of honesty and courage. But on climate change, his positions are as fascistic, delusional, and doomsday-driven as the worst political machine the Democrats have to offer.
Which brings us back to Kamala Harris. She will represent the Democrats in the race for president of the United States for the same reason Joe Biden did. Like Joe, she is a puppet. A cog in the machine. But make no mistake about the motivations of her donors. They they want to rule the world. And make no mistake about its grassroots supporters. They have been manipulated to think of themselves as warriors in a fight, fueled by a hatred they believe is righteous and justified.
The irony is deep and tragic. It’s the Nazis they hate. It’s the haters they hate. It’s the puppets of the authoritarian machine they think they’re fighting.
While Kamala Harris spouts her silly aphorisms, in between stoking fear and loathing among her followers, this machine is one election away from consolidating its power across America. If it wins, it will do to the entire country what it did to California.
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Edward Ring is a senior fellow at the Center for American Greatness. He is also director of water and energy policy at the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. Ring is the author of Fixing California: Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism (2021) and The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California (2022).
Photo “Kamala Harris” by Kamala Harris.
