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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
“What can be, unburdened by what has been,” Vice President Kamala Harris recites looking into the cameras, into her teleprompter and into the glare of the afternoon sunshine in a swing state.
Unburdened by the laws of her economics, her past track record or reality, anything is possible.
The much mocked phrase has become to her brand what “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” was to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. The twin statements of faith, their awkward construction of both deliberately echoing the cadence of old school preachers and new school gurus, are transformative in very different ways. Where Obama appeared to be offering his followers the opportunity to participate in a new revolution, Kamala offers her supporters the rebirth of forgetting that the old ever existed.
It is easy to see why “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” spoke to a man so convinced of his chosenness that he he was planning to be president even before he came to America. The only con in the phrase was the “we”. “What can be, unburdened by what has been,” is equally compelling to Kamala who constantly remakes herself to the needs of the moment. ‘Kamala for the People’, her 2020 presidential campaign, was launched using her credentials as a prosecutor only to have her endorse police defunding and freeing all the criminals once she saw which way the winds were blowing.
Despite all the unburdening, Kamala in 2024 is much the same way hack she was in 2020. In 2020 she proposed to wipe out health insurance while in 2024, she proposes price controls that would wipe out private enterprise. But being unburdened means she does not have to care about any of that. Now she runs again, unburdened by her past views on banning fracking and bailing out race rioters. She assents to an arms embargo on Israel while her spokesmen loudly deny she believes in any such thing.
Forget being burdened by the past of years past, Kamala isn’t even burdened by the past 5 minutes.
Letting go of the past is cathartic for Kamala as it must be for a woman who started her political career as the doxy of an elderly and corrupt urban mayor and is now her party’s nominee by way of a donor coup against another old man. Had Biden not turned weak and feeble, she would have nothing. But that was a few weeks ago and the coup and all the ugly history around it are another burden to be shed.
Obama and Kamala are both the children of lost black immigrant fathers, raised abroad and then brought into the American elite where they realized that they would have to identify with the blackness of their non-American fathers rather than with the white and Indian heritage of their mothers to get ahead in a culture whose biggest political currency was white guilt. But where Obama made his past and his search for identity into his autobiographical brand, Kamala makes changeability her identity. Unlike Obama who pretended to be what he was not, Kamala doesn’t really pretend to be anything: her identity is too nebulous: a day player who commits to no single role and will read from any script.
Both “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” and “what can be, unburdened by what has been” are leftist slogans, but where Obama’s slogan is rooted in a past history, Kamala’s denies it. Obama’s slogan contended that anything was possible because of the power of history while Kamala’s insists that anything is possible if we reject history.
Obama was running as the candidate of change and he was indeed something very different. But Kamala can only run as a change candidate by ignoring her past time in the administration. What other slogan could Kamala adopt except one that contends that the past does not matter because it’s past?
The Kamala campaign, running on her administration’s accomplishments and running away from them, championing the economy as both great and unfair, and the country as both wonderful and broken is rife with contradictions, but contradictions cannot exist when there is nothing to compare them to.
It’s a seductive slogan rooted in Oprahness and the gospel of self-forgiveness. Obama could inspire his followers, but Kamala is trying to crack the code of fake friend celebrity pop stars like Taylor Swift who offer fatuous expressions of sympathy, the pretense of commiseration and counsel moving on from everything. Kamala’s campaign amounts to little more than aging teen girl snark, artificial enthusiasm and calls to be gentle with yourself, drink some white wine and believe that better days are coming.
Obama and Kamala both speak to guilt but where Obama stood outside the great national white guilt, and offered atonement for it, Kamala stands inside it and offers forgetfulness as the solution to all things. Kamala and her supporters want to forget what they were, what happened and what they did. They want to move on from all the nameless things like the pandemic, the riots, the economy and the chaos. They don’t believe in inspiration anymore, all they want to do is leave it all behind.
It is the burdened who most want to be unburdened, and to believe that who we were is not who we are, and that what can be is not in any way defined by what was. What burdens does Kamala carry and what fingerprints can be found on her soul? Kamala laughs a fake laugh, smiles a fake laugh and tells her fans that if they pretend to smile and laugh that life will be good. Live a lie long enough and you will forget that you are lying. The performance becomes the actor. And isn’t that the secret to happiness?
Unburdening is Kamala’s way of cutting the Gordian knot. In her previous races, Kamala had no real idea of what people might want from her, but now she has tapped into the political panic attack of a party that had been spooked into thinking that it was on the verge of oblivion. But more than that she speaks to the disappointments of a party that saw little to celebrate about the last 4 years. Her supporters have struggled to convey what the administration’s accomplishments were.
But unburdened by what was, that no longer matters.
The Left has always been bent on erasing the past. Whether it was taking sledgehammers to statues or rewriting history, the past can be physically destroyed, or the secular messianism of the right side of history makes it something to flee, but Kamala transcends history with the joy of the lie. The past is weird. It’s full of non-DEI approved ideas. But most of all it makes you sad. And Kamala is never sad.
And that is to say that she is always fleeing her own emptiness and hollowness with artificial joy.
Kamala is joy incarnate. Laughing with her mouth, not her eyes, with her throat, not her heart, she banishes sadness through the magical waters of Lethe. When she looks up at the teleprompter or the sun, she sees only the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Unburdened by what has been, she can promise anything and be anyone, and most of all she can assure you that living a lie is the next best thing to living a better life. When you fake everything, Kamala’s life reveals, anything is possible.
the whole campaign is a sleight of hand that even goebbels would be proud of . that they all still have terminal TDS is an indication of their paranoia that the feckless voters that democrats pander to believe the incessant lies being told them especially of the liar in chief and the great uniter is a mystery only known to a mystery deity . no one in their right mind would vote for them which puts them beyond the basket of deplorables that crone hillary labelled half of the dons voters . unfortunately america will vote for cackloharris in droves as they are bereft of any discernment and america will continue to slide into irrelevance similar to the brits voting for starmer , lets see how that works out for them .
What a brilliant mind. Such insight.
Two Englishman said ;Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted… And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.” George Orwell, 1984
When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing: they believe in anything
. K Chesterton
And wish I knew who said:
NEVER in the history of civilization has a nation declined more economically, politically, socially, militarily, morally and globally over such a short span of time as the United States has since Biden ,Harris took office. However, what really makes the collapse unique is that it was done with a purpose.”
Another brilliant piece of writing Daniel . Thank you for breaking down the fog of “ Dialectic materialism “
The only source I could find for this quote was on X: Drago Dzieran – Ret Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran. From growing up in Communist-controlled Poland to time as a political prisoner to 20yrs as a U.S. Navy SEAL.
Unburdened by logic or critical thinking ability.
The cheap slut (dwarfing Sandra Flake) wishes she could be unburdened by her trading services for position. (The press could care less.)
If this ship-of-fools, unburdened by any ethics, can tool their “inclusive & expansive voter fraud” to be MORE exansive, we might get the first Prostitute in Cheif in the White House.
Bill Clinton previously lowered the dignity of the Oval Office while President (and jettisoned any remaining morals with 28 documented trips to Epstein’s Pedophile Island.)
Kamala will lower this nation the rest of the way down into the sewer, if she worms her way to the highest office.
Elie Wiesel said that the kind of things he wrote were a “literature of memory”, because some thing must never be forgotten … like the Holocaust. Well, Marx said the that”History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce”. Mark Twain said that “History doesn’t repeat itself but sometimes it rhymes”. George Santayana said that “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it”. It might have been Hegel who said “The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history”. Well the Democrats purposely never do and they want to keep the rest of us in the dark too.
Great reminders! I will never forgive our ancestors for reproducing with the cave dwelling “knuckle draggers” as they apparently spontaneously reproduce. Gee, their offspring represent “Stupidity On Parade!”
One word describes the Dems; narcissistic. They always refer to a power that they possess. Always waiting for their better selves to show up but they never do. They act like everything that occurred in the past wasn’t good enough for them. The truth is that the founders are rolling over in their graves because of the stench of egocentric politicians. Most of us want a leader not another professional politician. Vulgar word salads and lies are the tools of this class of reprobates. The staggering reception that they are receiving is proof that guilt is a very successful commodity of mass manipulators, among the growing number of witless sheep cheering them on.
If they slobber their way into power, Karl Marx will be more welcome than George Washington.
“If they (the DemoRats) slobber their way into power, Karl Marx will be more welcome than George Washington.”
Wasn’t “Strength through joy!” a Nazi slogan?
All tyrants are like that. Harris’ message to herself: “Smile. You’re on candid camera.”
I am amazed but not surprised that none of the reporters and commentators on TV covering the Democratic Convention have mentioned this simple fact:
NO ONE HAS VOTED HER KAMALA HARRIS!
Hopefully no one will vote for her.
Doesn’t matter. She’ll get 85 million “votes” and there’ll be twice as many precincts with greater than 100% turnout than in 2020.
FYI—-There’s a blog article on American Thinker from yesterday titled “Unburden yourself from the
Constitution” by Earik Ward. Please read! He’s unlocked that jibberish statement by K Harris! E. Ward
has figured out what the statement really means. The leftist commie Dems talk in coded speech—
always! If they said what they truly mean, no sane person would vote for them…..ever! As always, great
article Mr. Greenfield!
Kamala wants a promotion to become a bigger burden on American citizens. Her favorite illegal aliens, criminals, racists, terrorists, communist agitators and the rest are part of the present and future burden.
Fact:
The only people who will benefit from a president Kamala Harris are the same people who benefited from a president Barack Obama: Wealthy liberal elites.
As for the rest us, open your wallets and take a long look at what little money you have left. The dems are coming for it because by their calculus, your money is their money and they want it back.
The Democrats would buy into Mao’s “4 olds” in a heartbeat. They would like nothing better than to tear down every aspect of the society it took centuries to build. The leftist malcontents think they would be better off if they could just wipe the slate clean and start over without being burdened by what has been. Too bad there isn’t some way to tell the leftist LIV’s (and they are legion) to be careful what you wish for. They react to their political leaders as some kind of Svengali or Rasputin. Someone should also tell them they’ve been the administration in power for 12 of the last 16 years and, as such, why are there now so many problems that need fixed. Lambs to the slaughter is a good way of putting it.
We are all warned, False Prophets will come and deceive many, they will bring the way of truth into disrepute, and they will say what their itching ears want to hear. Looks like God has been totally correct on his warnings to the world. Judgment is on our country. We willfully send Iran billions of dollars to Iran, to destroy Israel and we marginalize Israel, telling her to lose the war and trying to force an agreement on her to prevent her from winning a war that is not her fault. In fact, we have withheld weapons from Israel, until recently., and by all means appeased. the Iranian Mullahs. The strongest reply that Biden gave to Iran was Don’t.
Tucker Carlson Exposes US Congress Passed A Loophole To Allow Illegal Migrants To Vote
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“It’s illegal, you say, for illegal aliens to vote in a federal election. Well, actually, it’s not illegal, it turns out. Congress passed something in the US code, the federal code, a line that, unbeknownst to the rest of us, makes it legal for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are citizens. It’s a state of mind”
Founder of True The Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht found in the US Code “Non citizens can vote without penalty if at the time they are voting they believe themselves to be US citizens.