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Friend,
All week long, the
nation watched as the true base of the Democratic Party –
billionaires, celebrities, national security figureheads and “moderate
Republicans” – repeatedly assured us that Kamala Harris will be a
different kind of president. A president of “joy.”
But I found little room for joy in Harris’
speech Thursday night.
Instead, it revealed a great deal about what we can expect if
Kamala Harris becomes president – and none of it is
good.
In a speech that
could have easily been delivered by Genocide Joe himself,
Harris promised to:
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Sign Biden’s inhumane, militarized “bipartisan border
bill” with 80% of the funding
allocated to hardening border security and DOUBLING the number of
border patrol agents.
- “Ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal
fighting force in the world” with
unchecked resources for the Pentagon to continue waging “wars around
the world” (to quote our current
president).
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Unconditionally supply Israel with endless
weapons, as she repeated
Israel’s discredited propaganda around the October 7th attacks and
pointedly ignored the widespread reports of Israeli soldiers using
sexual violence, physical and psychological torture against illegally
incarcerated Palestinian prisoners.
Harris absurdly claimed that she
and Biden are “working around the clock” to secure a ceasefire for
Gaza – even as they’ve authorized another $23 BILLION in arms for
Israel in August alone.
Now we learn that the Biden-Harris administration has appointed
Mira Resnick, perhaps the most hands-on State Department official
involved in speedrunning weapons to Israel since October 7th, to
replace Andrew Miller – the 1st official to resign in protest over
Gaza.
Harris’ empire of lies delivered on
Thursday night firmly established that “nothing will fundamentally
change.”
Harris made
it clear that she intends to continue this reckless path of
capitalistic exploitation and global militarism, even fanning the
flames with China and Iran as tens of thousands of the party faithful
waved signs and shouted “USA! USA!”
I find
no “joy” in any of this.
There are material conditions that must be
urgently addressed for this country to meet the basic needs of its
citizens and take us off this death march into World War III and
climate collapse. NONE of those policy solutions were present in
Harris’ speech.
Instead we were promised more of
the same. And much like Biden before her, that may prove to be the one
promise that Kamala Harris keeps.
Harris has shown her true colors, and we
have an urgent choice to make this November.
There is only one campaign with a path to
the White House this November that will set us on a radically
different course – one that will end the genocide in Gaza and
implement an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
There is only one campaign with the
credibility to address the climate emergency with the urgency it
demands. And there is only one campaign with a radically
transformative economic vision that will lift millions out of poverty
and build a society free of injustice, inequity, hunger, and
want.
There is only one campaign that is
challenging empire both at home and abroad – ours. In just over two
months, we will make our voices heard at the ballot box.
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