The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris versus conservative Republican Trump.
Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to their fellow Americans and those who are increasingly sick and tired of being lectured. How smart is it, for example, for Harris supporters to claim nonstop that ex-president Trump is a fascist dictator—and thus, by extension, those also who vote for him?
Women voters poll about 53-5 percent for Kamala Harris. Trump enjoys a similar, although likely somewhat smaller, majority margin of male voters.
Yet Harris—along with campaign surrogates Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—has been lecturing both black and white male voters nonstop that they are misled.
Or they supposedly suffer from false consciousness—as if they have no clue that Harris and her progressive agenda are really in their own self-interest.
Such haughtiness reached a zenith when Harris ran ads of actors costumed as supposedly working-class men. They voiced scripted talking points to prove that “real” men are progressive Harris supporters.
But the actors were so patently ridiculous, their canned lines so unreal, that most viewers likely thought the ads were run by Trump himself—to show how arrogant, out-of-touch elites must imagine how the so-called “clingers” and “deplorables” think and talk.
The Trump campaign also tries all sorts of strategies to win over women voters, from promising to rectify the Biden-Harris hyperinflation to reducing spiraling crime in towns and cities.
But one method they avoid is claiming women are ignorant of their real self-interest and deluded by Harris—accurately assuming that a candidate does not win voters by belittling their intelligence.
Harris and Obama both dressed down black men, claiming they are especially culpable for not voting en masse for Harris—even though a far higher percentage of black males will vote for Harris than for Trump.
This hectoring the electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral shortcomings has become a Harris campaign trademark.
To Harris, objecting to 10-12 million foreign nationals entering the company illegally without background checks during the Biden-Harris administration is supposedly a sign of a lack of compassion.
And claiming that a current declining rate of illegal immigration should allay voters’ supposed paranoias utterly ignores the millions of illegal aliens who were all but welcomed in by Biden-Harris before the 2024 election cycle.
Voters are also talked down to ad nauseam that they do not appreciate the Biden-Harris economy given the rate of inflation is falling.
True. But most voters go shopping in a manner politicians do not.
So, they resent such top-down sermons. They know best that prices for staple foods, fuel, insurance, and housing have spiked by some 20-30 percent since 2021—and stayed astronomically high.
Currently, the auto industry is in crisis. Its huge inventory of electric vehicles sits unwanted and unsold. Harris and the left, remember, mandated all sorts of EV standards in their war against the internal combustion engine.
Then the proverbial people revolted against the comparatively limited range of EVs and the difficulty in finding accessible and quick-charging stations.
So, the free market and consumer demand ignored the increasingly strident lectures.
Likewise, Harris pontificated that crime that had spiked in 2021-2023 is now not all that bad.
But voters know all too well that their major cities are now unsafe. They sense one reason this year that crime is not soaring as it was two years ago is because it had gotten so bad that any further commensurate increases would have made life utterly unlivable.
The Harris campaign was further hurt by past videos that keep popping up of Harris lecturing voters about how they either must think correctly or remain cluelessly selfish or ignorant.
So, a recent clip surfaced on Columbus Day 2021 of a Vice President Harris lecturing America about Western civilization’s “shameful” sins in discovering the new world.
Another video reveals Harris warning the country in 2020 on national television that the massive post-George Floyd demonstrations—that had turned violent and deadly—were not and should not stop, as if the country had to pay collective penance for its sins.
This 2024 race may be becoming analogous to an October 1980 teachable moment.
Then a preachy and sanctimonious incumbent Jimmy Carter—ahead in the final October polls over challenger Ronald Reagan—finally turned off voters for good.
The previous underdog Reagan won in a landslide for a variety of reasons. But certainly, one explanation was that the electorate had finally collectively shrugged their weariness. They were sick and tired of Carter’s downer lectures about how they were wrong and culpable.
Reagan, however, reminded voters that America was better than all the alternatives, needed not be perfect to be good, and had nothing to apologize for.
The same contrast will likely determine the election of 2024.
From your lips to God’s ear, Victor!
God bless America and keep us safe as we weather this storm.
The Left - by any and all its various names - never learns because that would require truly serious, advanced abilities when it comes to possessing pragmatic abilities to process reality - rather than wishes and utopian BS - whether spouted by Marx, Lenin, Hitler or Stalin, Obama, Biden or the dizziest of the ditzy - Kamala.
I know someone who is a thief, a pathological liar - who is never likely to be a repentant person regarding same. Needless to say, I have nothing to do with him - even though once upon a time - I thought there might be hope and tried - as did several other friends to help him - to no avail.
He won’t change in this lifetime, sadly, I suspect. Why? Because.
He likes the rush doing what he does gives him - irrespective of the fact he has hurt countless people - and feels no remorse.
The Left knows - even when it pretends to care, dawns its Picture of Dorian Gray masks - that it is right and that anyone who stands in its way - is?
Well - deplorable - and if, when, as it always does in their totalitarian minds - push comes to shove?
Expendable, worthy of deletion by whatever means are necessary.
That’s the bad news - the good news is that such as they don’t ever learn - and what happened before is going to happen again - come November 5th. AND?
Then the new and improved - for modern audiences - version of the American Revolution - updated for our current contexts - will emerge.
Believe it or not.
Well, I don’t know what the heck to make of that. I want some equity here. As a lifelong conservative, hopefully rational thinker and voter who has NEVER cast a vote for a Democrat, my vote should count for 1,000 other women’s votes! Strike that. Make it 10,000! It’s difficult to argue with men that women shouldn’t have the vote when the only issue women appear to know or care about, is the illusory right to kill your child. Women are truly stupid for having forfeited their exalted place in society as creators of next generations for the futile and often difficult/dangerous lives of men. It’s obvious to me that women don’t even “value” women!
This is the absurdity of abortion politics. The very people harmed by abortion policies, women, are now a vanishing sex because men can somehow “become” them (what a metamorphosis!). Being strangers to all logic or sense, women have become nothing more than a joke. Wake me when there again exists some sense or rationality among the weaker, dumber sex!
I don’t understand why women, in the face of all reason and the increased reductions in quality of life in the US, continue to vote Dems any more than I understand why American Jews continue to do so. What your parents or grandparents did or did not vote for shouldn’t impact what you do today, yet that is an explanation (?) I hear from both men & women. There are a lot of parallels between Carter’s administration and the current one – one disasterous domestic and foreign policy after another. I hope Professor Hansen is correct that the American public will react the same way and utterly refuse to assist in it’s own destruction.
Hectoring the great unwashed masses–be they male, female or something in between–seems to be a staple of the left. What’s somewhat amusing about this tactic, if it can be called that, is that high-mindedness is a bad look when combined with low-brow intelligence.
But for Democrats and critters of the left, self-awareness and a modicum of humility are utterly absent. However, this fundamental deficit of humanity is offset by a pedantic conceit that at times seems like self-parody. And though leftist insouciance is generally irritating, not to mention insulting, displays like Kama Sutra put on during her interview on Fox can lead to comic relief–sometimes even vindication.
One thing that became undeniable from the Bret Baier interview last night is that Kamala plans to keep the borders open and continue flooding America with not only those who decide to arrive on their own volition but, for those really fortunate (including gang members), she will likely also aid and abet their arrival using American aircraft. Why not? Who will stop her? I suspect Ellis Island will be destroyed since it represents a museum portraying a time when immigrants were actually vetted to make certain they did not carry diseases, were not criminals and would be contributory to the general welfare.
What is now also indisputable is that women, if the election were held today, would vote for this treacherous, treasonous airhead based on some perceived concept of easier access to abortions despite the fact that they are paying via their taxes, their property and their lives for an invasion by foreign nationals which includes ruthless gang members.
Comrade Harris is worse than any Trojan Horse. Via a virus, crafted in China, Biden and Harris were installed and are now going to do everything she and her party can do to open the gates to overwhelm American towns and cities and, unlike Trump, who would continue to construct a wall and have Mexico pay for it, she plans on doing the opposite. She will teardown walls and have Americans pay to support everyone including many who may be diseased, disabled and outright criminals and enemies of America.
Women certainly are not stupid so what is it then? Those X and Y chromosomes must, by deduction, represent psychological differences that are are capable of destroying nations just as effectively as nuclear weapons can. An invasion by China to clean up the mess and divi up the spoils will ultimately and gladly be welcomed.