At a quaint country store in mid-coastal Maine, I recently encountered an excerpt from the work of Victorian novelist George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans. The West’s feminist movement has ensured that formidable writers like Evans no longer have to hide behind a male pen name. Feminism was predicated on the idea of equal opportunity for women and men. Its trailblazers fought for the right for women to achieve.
Kamala Harris – with few achievements to her name – is the beneficiary of a corrupted brand of feminism. For a candidate whose slogan is “we’re not going back,” her artificially manufactured political ascent and incoherent platform represent regression for America and its women.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, who secured the 2016 Democratic nomination, although not without first backstabbing Bernie Sanders, Harris did not earn this nomination. While President Biden received 14.1 million votes in the Democratic primary, no one voted for Harris. But the Democrats couldn’t risk sidestepping Harris – a woman and a minority – even for someone actually competent.
After ousting Biden, the Democratic machine plucked Harris out of unpopularity and gave her a dramatic makeover. This was no easy task. A 2021 CNN report described Harris’s time as vice president as marked by “entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus”. Apparently Biden – yes Biden – deemed her such a joke that she was “sidelined” and “hobbled,” according to the report. Harris has also faced questions over high turnover in her office, with one analysis showing that over 90 per cent of the staff who started working for her in early 2021 had left.
After making a habit of waxing poetic about school buses, Venn diagrams, and the passage of time, Harris became synonymous in the public mind with the Julia Louis-Dreyfus character in Veep. As long as she could hold a microphone, Harris was a PR problem. Her handlers faced the dilemma: train her to not make a clown of herself on camera, a herculean challenge, or sequester her from reporters. Can you feel the women’s empowerment? To give her some credit, she has excellent memorisation skills, as we learned from her debate against Donald Trump.
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