Kamala Does Not Need Policies

After the Democrats switched out President Biden for Vice President Harris this summer, America experienced a rushed introduction to a candidate it has known for five years. She was different. She was new. She was brat. It hyped up the base. After the sugar high, people started to ask what her policy positions were. There have been few if any and this caused vigorous harrumphs from the Right but revealed the truth about the Democrats. No policies are needed anymore.

Biden’s tenure did have policies and did involve legislation. We witnessed an Inflation Reduction Act, which was a renamed Green New Deal. America’s borders were wide open and foreigners flown into the US in numbers equal to small states. America fully funded a proxy war against a nuclear power, and supported another dust up that may grow into a regional war. What was Kamala going to do? Nothing.

Nothing. It does not matter. Biden’s tenure also cemented how the president is a ceremonial role. The permanent government and its high end beneficiaries dictate the terms. Revealing for one month (to oust him) that Biden was a listless geezer showed what many suspected. People forget that Obama himself was not an agent of change but merely a spokesman for the zeitgeist and fellow traveler in the changes in society. We already reached the point where the Democrats view the role this way. One can look at the 2019 Democrat nomination process and see that none of them had accomplishments but were merely different demographics promoting the same current year pablum.

Kamala flip-flopping or staying mum means nothing. She is a non-entity, similar to the Obama is an empty suit accusation. If she wins, the same policies of 2024 will continue in 2025. The branding of America’s federal government as a nonpartisan entity should be buried even in the minds of the most naive adult, and events of the last decade should have made it clear.

There is a special thing that does matter for 2025. The plate-spinning on economic numbers will stop, and we will likely see a confirmed recession or at minimum an admission that it is rough out there. Who gets to reward and aid whom matters. Never forget that there was no infrastructure stimulus under Obama because it would pay white men disproportionately. We got social welfare and an expansion in student loans for consumers.

Calls for policies do not matter. After the Kamala-Biden swap, I was in Rhode Island. Rhode Island is 70% white, will vote for Kamal at a 55-60% rate and has seen population stagnate so much they almost lost an electoral vote. It is a husk of its former self. There are many whiter than white suburbs and small towns in Rhode Island. Drive through them and one will see Harris-Walz signs dotting lawns. These white voters know groceries have doubled. They have Ukraine flags, some weathered, and are good people. They know a vote for Kamala is more of the same. They grumble about immigrants flooding Providence and Boston, but that is always another city. Eventually, cities will unload those immigrants. Eventually, non-profits will run out of red towns with capacity. Construction firms will gladly build apartment complexes in their towns, and they will find city managers and mayors will be just as corrupt in their town as in Springfield, Ohio. The federal government is a self-running system, and it has protected and rewarded them so far.

The policies do not matter. Come on man, everything is better since we voted out the Orange Man. It’s vibes. Kamala is joyful. The television and iPhone say so! One more election to defeat the Orange Man, and then they can turn the page. These higher income white enclaves are readers and will gladly turn the page. The bad news is that they will not like the next chapter.

-By Fred Watson, Jr.