16 August, 2024 by Eric Dunkelberger

This coming Monday, 19 August, 2024, the Democrat National Convention begins in Chicago. I vaguely remember the 1968 Democrat National Convention. It was marred by the groups of war protesters against the war in Vietnam, but the biggest thing I remember was the Ku Klux Klan marching down the street in support of the DNC. It really wasn’t surprising since the KKK got it’s start as the militant arm of the Democrat Party after the Civil War.

This year, just four weeks after Joe Biden announced he was ending his run for the Presidency and, almost as an after thought, announcing his endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Convention commences with a nominee who hasn’t received a single vote from the People to earn that nomination. In 2020, Harris struggled to get higher than 1% in polls before she left her race for President prior to the contest in Iowa, then the first race in the nation. She was later chosen as the Vice President nominee, after Biden said he was looking for a “woman of color” as his partner on his ticket.

The Democrat National Convention is usually interesting from Day One. In 2012, on the first day, they were setting their platform. In prior years, it was normal to include God in the platform, but not this year. God was actually booed three times , after it was brought up for a vote. Finally, it was added to the platform without a vote. This year, the first day keynote speakers are going to be Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. It’s a bit strange for the sitting President to speak at the DNC on the first day; you would think that would be reserved for the third or fourth day, but not if the nominee, Kamala, wants to separate herself from Joe. But, that’s not going to be easy! Let’s face it, Joe picked her to handle the Border situation, calling on her to go to the Latin American countries to get them to stop the flow of migrants. They laughed in Harris’ face. On the economic front, Harris cast the deciding vote in the Senate to pass the so called “Inflation Reduction Act”, which was nothing more than a massive spending bill that did nothing but speed up inflation! Every issue advocated by Biden, she was in complete agreement. Even the debacle that was the Afghan withdrawal, she said she was the last person in the room during the mess!

Let’s look at the two people who will emerge as the Democrat ticket for President and Vice President. Kamala Harris started as a San Francisco DA who was soft on crime. On two separate high-profile murders, she refused to go for the death penalty, despite it being called for by the family in one case and the police in the other. In the latter case, a police officer was murdered. As Attorney-General, her next position, she was especially hard on black users of marijuana. When questioned as to whether she had ever used it, she just laughed! We know what has happened during her term as Vice President. As a candidate for President, she so-far has refused to do an interview and won’t debate for another three weeks!

Her running mate, Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz has a lot of issues, including signing the bill into law requiring tampon dispensers in the boy bathrooms in schools and refusing to call in the National Guard for three days while Minneapolis burned during protests after George Floyd’s death. His background has some huge questions, biggest of which is his military record. The damage done to one of his cities was in the billions of dollars, but, I imagine, the Covid funds to the states somewhat compensated.

Together, Harris and Walz, if elected, mean disaster for the country. Already, Harris has mentioned handling high prices by the same government price controls used by Cuba and Venezuela. In both of those countries, those measures caused empty shelves and starving people. Remember, in the Senate, Harris was rated THE most liberal Senator in her voting record, even to the left of Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed Socialist! They have no respect for the Constitution; they even believe they have the ability to confiscate our guns! It is the first rule, after all, of Communist countries. Under them, you can count on open borders with amnesty, cartels at our Southern Border smuggling trafficked humans and drugs, higher crime rates and increased chances of war! We’ve had that for almost four years. Who in their right mind would want four more years of that?