...they're everywhere in America!
Authored by W.J.Astore: Soon
after Joe Biden took office as president in 2021, I remember hearing
that his VP, Kamala Harris, was put in charge of immigration, informally
known as the “border czar.” Yesterday, the House passed a resolution condemning
Harris for her handling of the border crisis. Yet I’ve also been
hearing from Democrats and the media that Harris never was the border
czar, even as there’s plenty of video evidence of networks like ABC,
CBS, and NBC referring to her using that term.
Denying that Harris
was the border czar is a fairly small lie immersed in much larger sea
of lies, and of course it’s a bipartisan effort. Donald Trump
exaggerates and lies just to stay in shape. Democrats love to attack
Trump for lying even as they lie themselves. Truly, it’s hard to run a
government and a country when lies confuse every issue.
Another lie being told about Kamala Harris is that her candidacy is
the result of democracy in action. She’s the people’s choice! Except
almost nobody voted for her as a presidential candidate. She’s been
elevated and selected by the DNC and the donor class. She is a packaged product of the so-called elites within the party, the very opposite of a candidate chosen by the people. And
yet I’m told this packaged product is going to “save democracy” from
Trump, who was actually selected as a candidate in a more democratic
process.
Of course, there are far bigger and more serious lies
than whether Harris was the border czar or whether she’s the people’s
choice as the savior of democracy. U.S. troops’ deadliest enemies, I’d
argue, are most often the lies told by the U.S. government, abetted and
amplified by senior officers in the military. Think here of Iraq and
Afghanistan, or go back further to Vietnam.