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Become Part of the Solution
Tim Walz, in accepting the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, urged his audience, there and on TV, to become active in supporting Kamala Harris for president. But just voting for Harris and other Democratic candidates isn’t quite enough to get the job done.
Democratic supporters have to get to work to spread the word and see that others, independents and even Republicans, support her too, especially in those ‘battleground’ States (the number of which seem to be increasing daily)! Walz, apparently a comedian (besides being a farmer, a teacher, a football coach, a veteran, a sharpshooter, a former congressman, and currently governor of Minnesota), pointed out that ‘there’s plenty of time to sleep after you’re dead.’ Remember IF YOU’RE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, YOU MAY BE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
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Become Active! If you can afford to make a donation to Harris’ campaign and those of Democratic Senate and House candidates, please consider doing so!
Kamala’s message, as the signs at her rallies point out, is that ‘If We Fight, We Win’ and that ‘If We Vote, We Win.’ Her supporters must do both.
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But I know you’re not dummies and that you are entitled to know where Kamala Harris stands on important issues. She is the Democratic standard bearer in the election campaign. Walz, now that he is nominated for vice-president, is back in a secondary position.
To try to learn where Kamala stands, I refer you to a CNN article published this past week on that subject. Copy and paste https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/08/politics/kamala-harris-key-issues-dg/ on your browser line or CLICK HERE. It may help a little, but not much.
Candidates who are very specific and definitive in their campaign promises risk losing as well as gaining support, and of that Harris seems to be well aware, so she chooses her words carefully. By the debate scheduled with her opponent a month from now, her positions, and the Democratic Party's platform will become clearer.
Generally, the article suggests that Harris is no longer way over on the left with the most progressive Democrats where she was in her abortive 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, having moved a little bit toward the center.
Her background as a prosecutor and California attorney-general is reappearing. When an audience chanted ‘Lock him up’ after she had criticized her convicted felon opponent, she silenced them, saying, ‘That’s for the courts!’
Gone are Harris’ 2020 ideas about a ‘single-payer’ health care program and ‘defunding the police,’ but the emphasis on governing to best serve American families’ economic livelihood and voting rights still seems her highest priority, as it is with Joe Biden.
She remains adamant in defending abortion rights and those of LGBTQ Americans. She is strongly in support of Ukraine against Russian aggression, as well as of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, where it also appears that she will be less tolerant of Benjamin Netanyahu who, along with some Palestinians, prefer an exclusionary one-state solution, which would solve nothing.
What Harris will do to address the illegal immigration problem here is still a gray area. The Republicans are screaming that she was unable to accomplish anything in that area, but they ignore the fact that her specific role was limited to working with the governments of the nations to our South to improve conditions there, thereby reducing immigration, and not dealing with the human crisis at the border directly. Now. of course, the whole ball of wax will be in her hands when she becomes 'Madame President.'
With an opponent whose election would clearly be a threat to our Constitution and our representative democracy, and with the appearance of fascism masquerading as 'Christian Nationalism,' permeating the Republican Party, Kamala Harris’ standing up in defense of our traditional democratic principles is clearly a position that demands the support of all Americans regardless of party affiliation.
JL
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JL
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