House Speaker Kevin Johnson is trying to pass a continuing funding resolution for the federal government that also contains a voter ID requirement that even some Republicans oppose. An October 1st deadline looms, but will anyone care if the federal government ceases to operate?
To hear Donald Trump (mostly), everything that ails America can be traced to illegal immigration and legal migrant applicants eating pets and, I imagine, driving up inflation.
In the same week, a kid shot up a public school in Georgia and a second gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump. As usual, people in this highly militaristic society are asking: what is inspiring all this mayhem?
Democrats say they are defending democracy against the Republicans. The United States says it’s a model democracy. How to explain the rise of Kamala Harris? So unpopular in 2020 that she had to drop out before the first primary, she was appointed by her senile predecessor, who then stepped aside in a classic bait and switch after he nailed down the nomination and then handed it to her. Some democracy.
With no actual solution to Americans’ most pressing problems on offer under the existing system, candidates for high office distract voters with cultural wedge issues.
Kamala Harris says, in an echo of Joe Biden, that nothing will fundamentally change when it comes to U.S. funding and arming of Israel in its war against Gaza should she be elected president. But hey, at least the genocide will be carried out with an abundance of “joy.”
Kamala Harris is portraying herself as a blank slate by refusing to articulate issues other than those that appear to be popular after they were developed by Donald Trump. But her desire to be popular only goes so far.
Confronted with her move from progressive to corporatist right-wing positions following her aborted 2020 primary campaign, Kamala Harris repeatedly countered that, though her policies had changed, her values had not. But she didn’t tell us what her values were.
Abortion is currently the top issue for voters in the election. Maybe Kamala Harris can spin her support for Israel into a way to reinforce her pro-choice bona fides.
As much as politicians like Kamala Harris would like it, it’s not possible to compromise on an issue as dramatic as Israel’s war against Gaza. Either you’re in favor of aiding and abetting Israel, or you are not.
