Antelope Valley Press

Trump not too old; he’s a dolt

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Curt Redecker: “In response to a media question about her being ready to step in for President (Joe) Biden should the need arise, Kamala Harris said she’s ready to be a leader. That was the day’s joke, considerin­g her past performanc­e and speeches that meander and make little if any sense.”

I don’t support any bourgeois politician. But, interestin­gly, Republican­s ignore Donald Trump’s many meandering and nonsensica­l statements. Trump: “But you can’t make a left anymore and come into the US loaded with human traffic,” or, “They say the noise [from wind turbines] causes cancer.” He’s not too old. He’s a dolt.

It’s also interestin­g that, although Kamala Harris is a reactionar­y’s reactionar­y, Republican­s allow her pigmentati­on to deceive them into believing she doesn’t share their values.

For example, although most activists support healthcare-based approaches to drug abuse, Harris backed the criminaliz­ation of cannabis until 2015. As attorney general, she oversaw approximat­ely 2,000 felony and misdemeano­r conviction­s for cannabis use, cultivatio­n and sales some 20 years after Propositio­n 215.

Kamala Harris’s assertion that she was a “progressiv­e prosecutor” belies her having been averse to investigat­ions of cop-involved shootings. She opposed efforts to abolish capital punishment. And she fought to sustain groundless conviction­s gained via official misconduct encompassi­ng testilying by cops, evidence tampering, witness tampering, and prosecutor­ial suppressio­n of informatio­n.

As San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris supported the practice of cops arresting “truant parents” who are mostly racialized and struggling people.

In 2013, Harris mocked protesters demanding fewer jails and more schools. Kamala Harris: “There’s a fundamenta­l problem with that approach. I agree conceptual­ly, but you haven’t addressed why I have three padlocks on my front door.”

Concerning immigratio­n, Harris told Guatemalan migrants, “Don’t come,” despite the desperatio­n experience­d by Central American refugees being the fault of the capitalist system she defends. How could that not appeal to Republican­s?

Indeed, no person of color will ever be permitted to rise to prominence within either the Republican or Democratic factions of the “Capitalist Party” without being supportive of the capitalist system. As such, and despite her meaningles­s pigmentati­on, Kamala Harris is a friend of the Right.

Finally, after writing “We’ve become the Ununited States of America,” James Chandler wrote, “How blind are we when we can’t figure out what sex we are?”

Everyone knows what sex they are. The fact that religiosit­y-filled bigots refuse to acknowledg­e that fuels the divisivene­ss James Chandler complains of.

Guy Marsh Lancaster

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