Instead, it revealed a great deal about what we can expect
if Kamala becomes president – and none of it is good.
In a speech that could have easily been delivered by Joe
Biden himself, Kamala promised to:
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”.
Unconditionally supply Israel with endless weapons, as she
repeated Israel’s discredited propaganda around the October 07 attacks and
pointedly ignored the widespread reports of Israeli soldiers using sexual
violence, physical and psychological torture against illegally incarcerated
Palestinian prisoners.
Kamala absurdly claimed that she and Biden are “working
around the clock” to secure a ceasefire for Gaza – even as they’ve authorized
another US$23 billion in arms for Israel in August alone.
Now we learn that the Joe-Kamala administration has
appointed Mira Resnick, perhaps the most hands-on State Department official
involved in speed-running weapons to Israel since October 07, to replace Andrew
Miller – the 1st official to resign in protest over Gaza.
Kamala’s heap of lies delivered on Thursday night firmly established
that nothing will fundamentally change.
Kamala 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!”
The world finds 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 the
citizens off this death march into World War III and climate collapse. None of
those policy solutions were present in her speech.
Instead citizens were promised more of the same. And much
like Biden before her, that may prove to be the one promise that Kamala Harris
keeps.
Kamala has shown her true colors, and we have a prudent
choice to make this November.
There has to be a campaign to the White House this November
that could set the US citizens on a radically different course – one that ends
the genocide in Gaza and implement an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
There has to be a campaign with the credibility to address
the climate emergency with the urgency it demands. There has to be a 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 has to be a campaign that could challenge the empire
both at home and abroad. In just over two months, Americans will have to make
their voice heard at the ballot box.
