Let's get to the point of the matter, shall we? How do you distinguish the two candidates for the highest office in the land? On the one hand, we have a billionaire, and on the other, a self-proclaimed member of the "middle-class". If we take her at her word, an iffy proposition in its own right, she is a mediocrity. Ah! That's impolitic to say! But it is the truth. If you are in the middle, aren't you just ordinary? Whereas, there really aren't that many billionaires.
In other ways, it's not hard to see how Harris is anything but a mediocrity. She just doesn't shine in any way that makes her exceptional. What has she ever done that she distinguished herself? Anything at all? How did she rise to the top? Mostly by accident, it would seem. Certainly, she did not distinguish herself in her first run at the presidency in 2020. She was the one of the first, if not the first, to drop out of the primaries. She didn't win a single one of them.
Trump on the other hand, won his first run at an elective office. He ran against the power elite, and beat them at their own game. He had distinguished himself in many other ways. Therefore, in terms of personal achievement, there is no comparison.
But it all goes further than that. The political left seems to hate achievement. Those who succeed at anything are considered VILLAINS. Whereas, the only thing that the ruling class can do well is to live off the public teat. They are professional "public servants", who have a great propensity to get rich along the way in "serving" the public.
There are those who can disinguish themselves in public service, but Kamala Harris cannot be said to be one of those. She hasn't had a military background. Her successes came from being lucky enough to be in a position to take advantage of a one-party state, that only elects Democrats, and who are content with running their formerly "Golden State" right into the ground.
It goes to show you how achievers are leaving that state. It is also well to remember that Elon Musk has left that state, and now these "public servants" are trying to have him thrown into jail for daring to oppose them.
Musk's SpaceX is one of the things that the country can be proud of. But that won't fare too well if they succeed in having him jailed. Little wonder why the country is going down the tubes. If you don't kow-tow to the envying mediocrities, you may find yourselves in the Gulag. This is like killing the Goose Who Lays the Golden Eggs. What kind of sense is there in that?
Another notable thing is that in recent years, due to fracking, the country is no longer so dependent upon foreign oil for energy. If left up to the Kamala Harris types, that will no longer apply. We'd have to depend upon foreign sources of energy, while we starve to death in the dark.
Equality of outcome doesn't work too well in places where it has been tried. If it is tried here, we'll just be another sad story in a long list of sad stories of countries that tried that and learned the hard way that it doesn't bring out the best in its people.
We need to stop punishing success and the successful. Mediocrity cannot be helped, but often needs help. We shouldn't need to go outside our own country for what we've always been able to do for ourselves. This has been true for most of our history, and for most of our history, we honored personal achievement.
Let the envying mediocrities make messes of their own lives, and not mess up a good thing for the rest of us. If pushing excellence makes one a "fascist", the by golly, we need a whole lot more of it. Communism is always a graveyard for mediocrities, and even communists know better than to destroy their own geniuses.
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