Is she more like Aaron Burr or… Alcibiades?
They’re whispering behind fans these days that doddering Joe Biden probably won’t finish his first term as president, he’s deteriorating so fast. That would land V.P. Kamala Harris in the president’s seat.
Anthony Schwartz, son of Ford and Andrea Schwartz, pillars of our Chalcedon Foundation, is a technological entrepreneur and an expert in early U.S. history; and he has written a thought-provoking article on Harris for Human Events (https://humanevents.com/2021/03/06/kamala-harris-aaron-burr-and-the-art-of-political-shapeshifting/), “Kamala Harris, Aaron Burr, and the Art of Political Shapeshifting.”
Despite her wide reputation as a Far Left Crazy, the thing about Harris, writes Schwartz, is “She has no positions herself.” Time and time again, throughout her career, she has done 180-degree turns on questions of policy and her relationships with other politicians.
Her only consistency is her inconsistency. Therefor, writes Schwartz, “an eventual Harris presidency may not be as bad as it seems.”
How can that be?
Because, like the infamous Aaron Burr, her lust for personal power supersedes every other aspect of her psyche. Once in for Biden, she will want–desperately, passionately–to be re-elected. And her history suggests that if she has to abandon the Far Left and shift rightwards toward the center to do it, she will.
I dunno. Maybe he’s whistling in the dark. But I’m reminded more of Alcibiades than Burr–Alcibiades, the ancient Athenian general and politician, clever and gifted, but who turned his coat so many times that first he defected to Sparta and then to Persia… and was finally assassinated because no one could trust him anymore: he was dangerous to everybody.
Burr, a man who sincerely held no particular beliefs at all, might have turned out to be a serviceable president, Schwartz writes. The same could hold for Harris.
I don’t know that I’m sold on this; but it is a straw to grasp at.
Or then again, her lust for power could turn her into the worst kind of leftist tyrant, and with the Democrats’ new-found abilities to rig elections, she wouldn’t have to worry about winning over the Deplorables in order to get re-elected.
Come to think of it, the same shadow government that’s running Biden will probably be able to run her, too, not in spite of her lust for power but because of it. We aren’t being governed by persons any more, but by conglomerates. And considering her past and her means of getting into politics in the first place, she’ll just cozy up to the nearest representative of the conglomerate to stay in power.
God have mercy on us …..PLEASE!!!
I think the fact she wants power no matter what makes her even more scary and not going to be helping Christian concerns and agenda
Our country is in desperate trouble, and I don’t know how we can get out of it. But that’s what happens when evil people, quite possibly insane, steal a national election.
Praying for a revival