Mark Figley: Reasons to vote against Harris

Joe Biden is the worst and most lawless president in history, outranking Nixon, Wilson and Obama through governance characterized by corruption, indifference, purposeful ineptness and vastly diminished cognition. Comrade Kamala Harris, the queen of incompetence, flip-flopping and verbal nonsense, was in lock-step with him all along the way as his vice president.

She knew that Sen. Biden worked with southern Democrat colleagues to push segregationist policies in public schools. She knew that in 1977, Biden proclaimed that he didn’t want his children growing up in “a racial jungle,” and that he favored a dual criminal sentencing structure which disparately penalized blacks for sale/usage of crack cocaine over whites who were inclined towards powder cocaine. Yet Harris became his running mate.

Then, prior to the 2020 election, Joe had the audacity to proclaim, “If you (black voters) have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” But did Kamala, who has never gotten one vote for president, ever disavow this outrageous insult of an entire race?

Harris, like Biden, is a full-fledged member of the open borders crowd. As his laughable “border czar,” she was fully on board with allowing millions of illegals to enter the U.S., providing them with untold financial assistance, facilitating their transition to communities across the nation and unleashing a wave of criminal activity on unsuspecting citizens everywhere. And she bears responsibility for any future attack committed by the terrorists who certainly came in as well.

These are policies that literally destroyed the U.S Border Patrol, demeaning its true mission of securing America’s southern border and demoralizing its agents through sheer mental and physical exhaustion associated with processing an unending stream of humanity. Adding insult to injury, Biden and Harris reassigned all of America’s air marshalls to assist with the border, making air travelers more susceptible to unruly and problematic passengers than ever before.

Under Kamala’s dutiful watch, fentanyl has poured in over the border too, killing thousands of Americans; compliments of China and the cartels working hand in hand. Human trafficking is occurring on a massive scale as well, with illegals paying huge sums to initially enter the U.S. from around the world, then facing continued financial extortion just to maintain an existence.

On the issue of the economy, America’s annual interest on the federal debt now exceeds yearly spending on the military. Goods and services are up nearly 20%. Meanwhile, Harris proposes genius strategies like failed price controls which are guaranteed to make things worse.

Additionally, under Joe and Kamala, our judicial system has become two-tiered. One favors the privileged class, and the other targets and harasses the opposition. This runs the gamut from ignoring the violence of pro-Hamas, Antifa and BLM protesters to criminalizing the behavior of peaceful, pro-life protesters, parents who oppose politically-biased school boards and a former president who lives rent-free in their heads.

Even as Trump kept us out of any military entanglements, Biden and Harris embedded the U.S. in Ukraine’s war with Russia, a conflict that threatens to become World War III. This action followed America’s cozying up to Iran and Joe’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now the only thing that instills fear in America’s adversaries is Harris’ ever-present cackling.

Meanwhile, China has its sights set on Taiwan as Kamala stood by Joe in pressuring Israel to refrain from eradicating the evil Hamas. As former Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said, “Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” The same could be said for Harris over the past four years.

From the intentional degradation of U.S. energy production, the celebration of gender dysfunction, the imposition of diversity, equity and inclusion, warring against traditional culture and defying the Supreme Court on student loan forgiveness, Harris was part of Joe’s “normal” which never occurred. Now, she is changing her positions, playing hide and seek and pretending that she couldn’t have possibly contributed to the destruction of America’s once thriving economy or its all-disappearing credibility everywhere. And while she has not one VP accomplishment, she wildly claims to have the solutions for the problems she helped to create.

Democrats have mercilessly tried to convince Americans that they are better off than they are, even if our country clearly is not. For those who are sick and tired of an autocratic, Marxist-inspired party, it is time to send a message. Too many were fooled by the fake moderation and deception of Joe Biden in 2020. Now Kamala and Tim Walz hope to run out the clock by hiding who they really are. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Mark Figley is a political activist and guest columnist from Elida. His column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Lima News editorial board or AIM Media, owner of The Lima News.