The name of this blog is Pink’s Politics. The name comes from my high school nick-name “Pink” which was based on my then last name. That is the only significance of the word “pink” here and anyone who attempts to add further or political meaning to it is just plain wrong.

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The Democrat Ticket – Some Initial Thoughts

 We now know that the Democrat Ticket will be Biden-Harris.  The question we all should be asking is “Ticket to where?”  I think we all know the answer to that – it will take us to a much more Socialist country than what America was ever designed to be.  That is the destination that some seek.  For others it is not.  But many seem to not really care or understand where their ticket will take them – they are just along for the ride.  I hope that before they cast their votes they will at least look at the travel brochures to get a sense of where they are going.

If all goes according to the Democrat plan, Biden will be elected, then step aside due to his now obvious dementia, and Harris will become president.  She would be the first president to be selected based on external identity factors rather than on qualifications.  The percentage of Black women in America is 11.4.  In his promise to choose a Black woman as his running mate, Biden excluded almost 90% of the population from consideration.  That exclusion was based solely on identity politics – he promised us a Black woman running mate. 

What I find a bit insulting and a bit of a weaseling on that promise is that he did not even pick someone who is fully a part of that Black identity group.  Instead he picked someone who has previously identified herself as Indian-American because her mother who raised her is that.  Her father identifies as Jamaican and has written that there are slave-holders in his past.   

According to Snopes Fact-Checking, in 2018, in a article for Jamaica Global, Prof. Harris (Kamala’s father) wrote, ““My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).”  

One would think that this ancestry does not make Ms. Harris the best representative of African-American Blacks and descendants of slaves in this country.  Oh well.  It’s all show, smoke and mirrors anyway.  Biden hides in his basement unable to converse coherently without notes while the Democrats assert he is qualified for the job of President of the United States of America.  

We know that Ms. Harris at least to some extent visually fits the proper identity qualifications, and we know that she is one of the most Leftist members of the Senate.  But her actual qualifications for the job of Vice President/President have never been vetted.  She looked enough the part of the promised Black VP and so the smoke and mirrors now tell us she is qualified.

The Democrats have clearly signaled their intent for America.   Beyond their divisive and dehumanizing identity politics they would turn us into a shallow superficial place where the governing style is based on Socialist Dictatorships – places where the elite in power control everything.  They may create ceremonial titles such as President or Vice President, let the people think that they have some role in electing or otherwise choosing them, and then simply pull the strings and do whatever they please.

I have no intention of voting for such an America.  I truly believe that anyone who examines the ticket that the Democrats have presented to us will also choose not to vote for it.  What frightens me is that there are many who will just get on the train – Ridin’ with Hidin’ Biden – not realizing where they are going or what they are doing.  What they may not realize is that there is no return ticket from where we and America will end up.


 

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