Sol's Culture Wars

Voters factor substance over style, and candor over conceited silence. Despite the wrenching spectrum of impassioned opinions that Donald Trump can generate, he is nonetheless instinctively and painfully unfake. Cheer or cringe, at least he gives his own real answers every time. With her frantic, minute-ago and arrogantly unexplained flopping on nearly all the major issues, Harris is the national poster child of political morphing and fakery. Hiding from scrutiny is a strategy. Harris is counting on voters being that easily duped, distracted by the glitz of crass, Hollywood celebrity. All voters deserve respect thru timely access and transparency.

360°, every view is a bad one in this election. The scripted, ugly political machinations are typical. It is continually painful and regrettable that crass personalities and openly flawed characters must be factored out with both starkly undesirable candidates.  Racial identity, gender, bombastic rhetoric, and shallow, transitory issue positions are all thoroughly irrelevant now. Capability does critically matter. The biggest picture voters must consider a singular, consequential question: Which presidential candidate do America's sworn archenemies clearly and desperately favor?

Could be more of my characteristic wishful thinking, but I'm not persuaded that voters will glom onto this allegedly new Harris-nomics plan. It's still fatally attached to failed Bidenomics, and people generally have no confidence in the government's inept manipulation of prices.  Only competition brings the best value and innovation. Folks intrinsically know this, deeper than their desire to sit on Santa's knee. The WH said yesterday there's no daylight between Biden and Harris policy. The Harris plan may appear differently when viewed under the microscope of pragmatic analysis. Clearly, "controlling" prices to production, goods, and services is what communism does to the detriment of everyone. Systemwide corruption, black markets, and rapid erosion of both quality and safety are all inevitable when the government attempts to ascribe these values.  THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT EVEN RUN ITSELF VERY WELL! Like with the U.S. Postal Service, and most federal departm...

Binary choices are always ruthless by nature. One applicant, controlled and scripted, parsing every public word. The other, reflexively candid, never stops talking and self-promoting.  Love or loathe, or some pragmatic in-between view, the binary choice couldn't be simpler. With both candidates, prior agendas will continue, with one big contradiction.  Harris can not claim both realities: Harris can not say there is "no space" between Joe Biden, but also reversing now on so many issues. So far, there's no explanation with weeks remaining.  Methodical hiding is a strategy as Basement Biden successfully proved. But, it's the opposite of both transparency and credibility.

Be wary of smiling pundits. Disagree, if you can. But, the following is true by my experience: there is no longer a free and fair press in the US.  News platforms have become propaganda pushers of corporate and political policy. American investigative journalism is dead. Facts take a back seat to spin. Narrative is more crucial than accuracy of source.  News stories are too often headlined with brazenly misleading distortion, intentional inclusion and exclusion based on whatever supports their self-interest. What you accept as verified fact can greatly affect your life. Do your own research, check important stories of interest independently. Who's behind the message that is so ardently promoted?  News networks, today, cannot be trusted to adhere to codes of conduct that prioritize truth and impartiality. Power politics and their myopic, partisan agents are the information players on your screens, hoping to influence. Be wary of smiling pundits.