Kama Kama Kama Kameleon...

 Remember that song by Boy George from the 80's? Nice little catchy tune, everybody liked it. While we're on the topic of chameleons, seems we have one surfacing in the limelight. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Harris has long been known as a progressive liberal. Her policies and positions have always reflected that. But, now that she's running for president it appears her stance on some major issues has changed. Her position on most of these policies have been consistent throughout her public life. And now, they've changed? Let me point out that most of these policy shifts are 180 degree shifts, they're not slight or insignificant. Is she simply lying, trying to buy more votes from the middle-of-the-roaders, just to try to get elected? Then switch back to what has always been her stance on the issue once the election is over? That's quite possible, even likely. Looking back through the past several elections, such is not that uncommon. Especially with Democratic candidates, though Republicans have done it as well. It's dirty politics, but you know what they say, "Shit happens..."

Let's take a look at some of the topics that Kakala has flip-flopped on. Immigration and the border wall. Harris has always been a staunch opponent of building a border wall. She has insulted Trump calling it a "medieval vanity project." Seems she's now behind the idea and recently stated that she will continue building the wall. In the past she has always been lax on immigration policy, but now says she will vigorously enforce our immigration laws.

In the 2016 election debates Harris said she would put in place a federal ban on fracking. Now she claims she will allow it. She has long been a proponent of the Green New Deal, her and Biden have mandates regarding electric vehicles and charging stations. Now she says there will be no electric vehicle mandates. Also in 2016 she said she would push for Medicare for all. Which happened to carry a price tag of 44 trillion dollars, more than the current national debt. Now it seems it's not such a good idea. She also said in 2016 that there would be a mandatory semi-automatic rifle buy-back program. Now the flavor-of-the-day is no mandatory buy-backs. She's also backing the idea of no taxes on tips. She backed legislation as a senator to increase IRS funding especially for bird-dogging middle income taxpayers. As the California Attorney General she pushed for cash bail, assuring criminals were kept in jail. As a senator and VP, she has pushed against cash bail. Marijuana. As an AG Harris pushed hard to punish marijuana offenses. She has even publicly bragged about. She has recently pushed for a federal law legalizing medical marijuana. 

So, what is a voter to make of all this? Is she lying to get votes? Undoubtedly. Where did some of these good ideas come from? Donald Trump. That's kind of embarrassing, no? I recently saw an interview with the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. He said it's perfectly OK to lie to get votes. Politicians have been doing it for ages. You just do whatever you have to do and say whatever you have to say to get in office. He's voting for her no matter what. Seems to me that's more of the Democratic party's ideology than politicians in general. Granted, they all lie but they typically don't all have private servers in their basements either. Harris has been taking some heat for not granting any press conferences or interviews since being 'crowned' the Democratic candidate. I say crowned because not one vote has been cast anywhere by anyone to elect her as the candidate. So, no press conferences or interviews, no statements regarding her official policies. Based on all the flip-flops if she did announce her official policies they'd probably change anyway...

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