TRUMP VS. HARRIS - REASON YOUR WAY TO THE RIGHT CHOICE
Years ago, prior to the 2016 election, confronted as I was with two presidential candidates - one a well-known political figure - Hillary Clinton - who had a track record and long-time association with Democrat “values” - and the other - Donald J. Trump - a complete unknown, a political novice who had no record as a politician but a well-defined platform of promises - I determined a simple method for deciding whom I would vote for. I took a piece of paper and drew a line down the middle of it. At the top of one column I wrote “Trump”, and at the top of the other, “Clinton”.
I then proceeded to list in each column, side by side, the platform promises and positions each of these two candidates had publicly set forth. When the lists were as complete as I could make them, I stood back and, based on a lifetime of education and experience in the world, carefully considered which of these two platforms, should one or the other be executed, would be in the best interests of the great country I loved and was proud of - the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
On the face of it, for me it was a “NO-BRAINER”. Based on everything I then knew about life, my country, history, economics, politics, religion, the world I had travelled extensively in, Trump’s platform was the winner, hands down. It was obvious to me that his platform, if executed, would be good for the country. Hillary’s platform, if implemented, would be harmful. I came to this judgment not based on any political affiliation or loyalty, but solely on my sense of what would work to the good of the country and what would not.
The clear question, however, was this: would Donald Trump actually do what he said he would do? Or would he, like virtually every politician, say one thing, promise one thing, and then do another? As a rank political novice, Trump had no track record as a politician that would have made it possible to evaluate the integrity of his word.
Still, the Clinton platform, in my judgment, was so glaringly baneful in its implications for the country that, in the best interests of America, it seemed to me safer to bet on the uncertainty of Trump’s keeping his word to implement a platform very good for the country than to give Clinton the power to implement a liberal agenda that, with certainty, would be destructive of the nation’s best interests.
Accordingly, in 2016, holding my breath, I voted for Donald J. Trump. To my great satisfaction and the delight of the millions who had supported and elected him, in the face of the most vicious and intense opposition from those whose aspirations to power he had frustrated, DJT then proceeded to do more or less everything he had promised to do as president, ushering in a period of security, prosperity, strength and international stature the country had not seen in a generation.
Trump’s accomplishments as president are not a matter of the sort of political distortions, spin and misrepresentations characteristic of the left, but a simple matter of historical record - a record, by the way, that causes weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth among the Democrat left when they are forced to confront it.
Accordingly, as we approach what is likely to be the most consequential election ever in our history, may I suggest that readers employ the same strategy in evaluating the two 2024 presidential candidates as I did back in 2016. Take a piece of paper, line down the center, and write on one side what Trump has promised to do - but this time with the understanding that, as history attests, the man does what he says he will do -
“I think he has shown by his prior actions that you can take him at his word,” he [never-Trumper Mitt Romney] told me, his voice suddenly subdued. “So, I would take him at his word.”
- “Mitt Romney’s Trump Problem” - Deseret News
- and, on the other, what Harris will do. Not the lies she has recently told in an attempt to win votes, but the positions she has repeatedly taken and stood for in the past, as documented over and over in the video record.
Here, let me help. Write down on one side of your sheet of paper Trump’s 20-point list of promises. Here it is:
SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY -- ALL MADE IN AMERICA
END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
Any reader think that any one of these agenda items, if implemented, would not be good for the country?
Now, on the other side of your sheet of paper, write down (abbreviate) the following list of the impact on the country of Kamala Harris’s platform and her long-established positions on critical issues:
Focused on establishing a mighty bulwark of individual human liberty, the glorious history of our Founding - what America is and aspires to be - will continue deceitfully to be erased and rewritten to discredit the Founders and their libertarian Judeo/Christian values - “SLAVEHOLDERS! RACISTS! HYPOCRITES! DEISTS!” - (see “The 1619 Project”).
The US Military, whose sole job is to be ready to “kill people and break things” in defense of the country, will continue to be feminized and weakened by limp-wristed leadership and woke ideology.
In order to ensure consistently liberal rulings for decades to come, Democrats intend to “pack” the Supreme Court by adding additional liberal justices who will be dependable toadies in the liberal cause. SCOTUS will thus be forever gutted as an independent body focused on law not politics.
What Democrats intend to do to SCOTUS, they also intend to do to Congress - both the House and Senate - by adding two new states - possibly Washington, DC and Puerto Rico - they expect will be dependable supporters of Democrats and thus permanently sway to the left the legislative balance in both houses.
Trampling the rule of law under Democrat foot, US borders will continue to be erased, as they have been for the past four years under “Border Tsar” Harris. On top of the tens of millions already allowed lawlessly to invade our country, millions more unvetted, law-breaking illegals will flood into the country, risking the physical, economic and social wellbeing of legal citizens, increasing exponentially the risks of terrorism, taking jobs from Americans, depressing wages, over-burdening social and medical services and other national resources intended for citizens and paid for by citizens, thus further reducing the quality and quantity of such services available to legal citizens. By buying and importing a brand-new illegal alien electorate with your money, the underlying intention of this grand illegal invasion, perpetrated by treasonous Democrats, is to replace America’s existing electorate with dependably Democrat voters.
Taxes, including corporate taxes, will be raised sky-high to accommodate the out-of-control spending of unrepentant profligate government. Harris’s promised tax increases will include the utterly ridiculous and devastating “tax on unrealized gains”. Say you bought a stock for $100 and its price goes up to $200. But, thinking it may go higher, you haven’t sold it. Kamala will require you to pay tax on the $100 “unrealized gain.” No refund to you if the stock price subsequently crashes. And what about the “unrealized gain” on your house?
Wealth, for obvious reasons, will flee the country, along with the nation’s manufacturing base, further weakening the nation across the board.
The 2nd Amendment - the critical right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in protection of life and liberty (the primary threat to that liberty always being an out-of-control government) - will be so twisted and constrained that a person, far from being able to own a semi-automatic AR15 (which is not an “assault rifle”), might be allowed to own a single-shot collector’s musket. Harris has promised ON VIDEO to bust right into our homes to make sure we are complying with government diktats on firearm ownership.
Say goodbye to your private health care. Harris wants a universal, government-run healthcare system that would put private health out of business. Government would be the sole arbiter of the who, what, how, where and when of healthcare for every American. Competition in the healthcare industry - always a healthy free-market driver of quality and quantity of service - would be dead. How much control over you will government have when it has total control over your healthcare?
The corruption of children’s education will continue apace, exposing our kids to hyper-sexuality at a tender age, confusing them regarding gender, exposing them to vulgar literature (if you oppose this you are a “book-burner!”), encouraging sexual experimentation, and approving and facilitating “gender reassignment surgery” - the surgical mutilation of children - all without parental oversight. Our children will be taught - are now being taught - they can be any gender they desire. De-emphasizing traditional education, teachers will be free to indoctrinate their students with anything they wish, without fear of having to account to parents. As they already largely have been, educational achievement standards will be done away.
Spitting in the face of Judeo/Christian values, the law will be corrupted to redefine pedophilia as just another sexual preference, not a crime. It will be legal for “two consenting persons” regardless of age to engage in any sort of sexual activity.
Men in women’s sports, women’s bathrooms, locker and dressing rooms. Tampons in boys’ bathrooms and dressing rooms (thanks to Tampon Tim).
Any sources of information that conflict with the Democrat narrative will be viciously suppressed:
“Hillary Clinton says social media companies must moderate content or 'we lose total control’ ”
“John Kerry calls the First Amendment a 'major block' to stopping
Donald Trump, who, even if he loses, will remain a focal point of conservative, patriotic energy in America, will continue to be viciously attacked by Harris’s Department of Justice, as he has been under Biden’s.
Because he is a champion of free speech and controls the powerful free speech platform “X” (Twitter), Elon Musk, an avid Trump supporter, will also become a target of the Democrat left and the institutions of government they will control under Harris. Under a Harris regime, it will thus become increasingly difficult to obtain good information on any subject or issue the government wishes to control (just as it was exceedingly difficult for a long time - and really still is - to get reliable, truthful information about the Covid pseudo-pandemic and the toxic and deadly mRNA vaccines).
Religious institutions will be increasingly pressured either to stay silent in the face of government moral outrages or abandon or bastardize their conservative Christian doctrines so as to appear to support of those outrages. Under a Harris regime, the Christian sheep will be separated from the goats (perhaps the one good thing in this list).
Now let me suggest that an intelligent, rational, informed voter, contemplating what is written on both sides of this sheet of paper, should be asking only one question as he or she approaches the November election:
Based on the available information, which of these two candidates would best serve the interests of the country at this critical time?
Pardon me, folks, but, IMHO, this could not possibly be more of a NO-BRAINER than it is. In my earlier Substack post of that title, written originally to contrast the stark differences between Trump and Biden, I proposed that the reader pretend that the two candidates running for president were completely anonymous. No personal information available whatsoever. All that could be know was the recorded accomplishments of each of the unknown candidates, allowing for a voter’s choice on that basis alone.
Biden is gone, but Harris has taken his place. As Biden himself has said, Harris has been hand-in-glove with him all through his term as president. Though she is now trying frantically to distance herself from the 4-year disaster of the illegitimate Biden regime, Biden declares that his “accomplishments”, such as they are, are equally her accomplishments. She is equally responsible for what has happened in America since 20 January 2021.
So, if you knew nothing of Donald Trump but his prior accomplishments as president and the dependability of his word in doing what he says he’ll do, and nothing of Harris but the four-year “accomplishments” of the Biden/Harris regime, how would you vote?
Let me say, ladies and gentlemen, that, except at the expense of a total loss of intellectual, moral and spiritual credibility - and a total loss of any claim to being an American patriot - YOU. DON’T. HAVE. A. CHOICE.
At the root of it, rather than just picking between two candidates, what you’ll really be doing on November 5th is aligning yourself on one side or the other of the following cosmic conflicts…
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, knowledge vs. ignorance, order vs. chaos, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, patriotism vs. treason, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless…
Time to choose…
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada