Kamala Harris Exits Presidential Race

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson

Hello All:

Senator Kamala Harris has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. After having put up a valiant campaign, Senator Harris has wisely decided to drop out of the presidential race. Pointing up the inequities of the presidential campaign as it stands in the 21st century - where it is no longer about the best person for the position, but who can spread the most dollars to buy the election. It's no longer about merit or platform; it's about how many lies you can tell to how many people using the slickest media tricks, while buying out the (s)electoral college, the subprime court, and well placed political deviants - as well as foreign intrigue - to make sure that nothing honest Americans do - will actually make a dime's worth of difference in the final analysis. 

 

Whether or not she was my candidate of choice is immaterial - if it boils down to having to megalomaniacal fools duking it out over who has the most buck for the banging America is going to take - Americans need to consider whether or not, going forward, is this what we want for our country and ourselves. 

 

Kamala Harris had some very salient points - she had some baggage - but she went in to the fray as a candidate on a relatively level playing field. She laid out her campaign, competed in the debates - some days she did a fantastic job, other days not so great - but she was not trying to buy the public by undermining their values.

 

Her exiting this race, which will, no doubt be followed by others, presages a trend that we had better nip in the bud immediately, if not sooner. And that is, if regular Americans are being forced out because big money has been allowed to taint our elections - what the heck are we doing - and why the heck are we allowing it to happen? 

 

 HERE'S ONE OF MANY ARTICLES:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sen-kamala-harris-drops-out-2020-presidential-race-n1094996?fbclid=IwAR2oYxelVdcx29vdv7GNGAW4IgKTz_M19jlytVISysO65JjBNfcEZJD0clg

 

 

I hear others stating that the ones with the big bucks will be the final candidates - so the rest are really just wasting their time and spinning their wheels.  If it is now an America of the big bucks - then the rest of the country is doomed to be under the dictates of fools, egomaniacs, dilettantes, racists and avaricious cretins - and if we let it happen, we get what we deserve.   I think we had better make sure that we really are in charge here - despite the dollars - the big bucks - that are being spent to propagandize and lie to the public - we had better be able to see through the sham and the scams that are being played on us.

Interesting, while we as individuals are limited in how much we can contribute candidates, there is no such edict against big business doing the same thing - so corporate money - national and foreign - is actually buying our candidates, while we sit by and watch it as if we have not role to play in this.

The ceiling needs to be reinstated on the amount that can be contributed to a campaign, spent on a campaign, as well as the ethics that go to what a candidate can say or do in the pursuit of the nomination.

While Kamala Harris' reputation as a prosecutor also dogged her candidacy, especially with African American voters, she was no means as heinous as the incumbent in the White House, and some of her contenders.  Having been on the enforcement side of the law, she, no doubt, would have unique insight as to what was needed to rectify the situation of mass incarceration and extended imprisonment.  Something most of the candidates have no insight about.  This could have been an opportunity to have a president who might have made a critical difference in the future.  However, at this juncture, we won't know - at least, not this time around.  

 

But going forward, do we really want moguls for presidents, who run the country like their own personal cash cow, putting business and profit over the needs of the people.  We slept the interference in the repuglycons in the evisceration of our voting rights; we slept their making it legal to have corporate dollars allowed in presidential elections; we even slept them making it all but illegal for incumbent democrats to have their staff involved in campaigns - but we had better not sleep the deeper meaning of this exit from the campaign by Kamala Harris.  It really is all about the Benjamins Baby.  That and the fact that clueless millions of Americans are having their right to free and equal elections usurped by people who have looking to use that to control the very future of this country into a new form of fascism.

 

While Kamala might not be our president, I am happy that she is still a Senator and will be representing our interests in Congress.  By the way, in case you haven't read the memo, we still need to overturn the majority in the Senate to Democrats - so while we're focusing on the Presidential race, let's make sure we're either running for the US Senate, or backing someone who can defeat the repuglycon incumbents who have been instrumental in running the country off the rails.  

 

This is still job one - make a clean sweep - HOLD THE LINE IN KEEPING OUR MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, CHANGING THE NUMBERS IN THE SENATE, AND TAKING BACK THE WHITE HOUSE -

 

So while you're dealing with this, just make sure you are registered to vote; challenge those who won't let you register to vote; get your kids 18 and over registered to vote, and so on, and so on and so on. 

 

Don't get it twisted - we are not there yet.   

 

NOW THAT YOU KNOW

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

 

 

Stay Blessed & 

ECLECTICALLY BLACK 

Gloria Dulan-Wilson                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

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