By Greg Maresca
Spending the summer behind the wheel of a bus has brought with it some interesting turns, detours, and plenty of spontaneous conversation. Many of the seniors on board do not get out as they once did. Others have little contact with the outside world except for their journey to various medical appointments, while some do not interact with many other than the small retirement community where they reside.
While driving, I do not like being beholden to the Global Positioning System (GPS), but sometimes it is the only option. Technology, when it works, can make any transition quite smooth, but not when you’re sitting in a defunct parking lot or in the middle of a road surrounded by corn fields with no scarecrow in sight with the GPS informing anyone within earshot that “you have arrived at your destination.”
One distinguished gentleman and rider, a Vietnam veteran of two tours, noted how societies fail when tolerance becomes the ultimate virtue and is then defined by one party as gospel. He remarked about the irony of how Democrats preach tolerance of gays, illegal immigrants, and even convicted felons but then turn on fellow Americans who are Christians, Conservatives, and Republicans. As he stepped off into the smothering humidity, he parted with these words of wisdom: At this juncture, there is no excuse for NeverTrumpers to continue.
Then there was one woman (at least I thought she was female) who boarded wearing her surgical mask, giving the ride a retro COVID-19 feel. She was the clear winner of the summer’s best bus rider mask, which read simply: “Harris,” with each letter emblazoned in a different color. It was the first campaign sign I witnessed in all my journeys extolling Harris for the nation’s highest office.
Perhaps she doesn’t realize how Kamala Harris, as vice president, owns each one of President Joe Biden’s failures, including economic decline brought on by rising inflation, tens of millions of illegal immigrants, the Afghanistan debacle, and increased tensions worldwide. Ironically, Harris opposes voter identification laws but requires a photo ID to get into her campaign stops.
Harris pleads with voters to elect her again so she can solve all the problems that have been ongoing since she was first elected.
Harris entered the presidential race a month ago and has yet to give any interviews or press conferences with no blowback from journalists. Such behavior underscores how journalistic objectivity is a myth. One recent headline in a national publication read: “Harris Tough on Border.” This was not a satirical piece but an actual “news story.” Politics can be a pleasure when you have a complicit media working nonstop for your campaign and gratis, too. Time magazine admitted Harris refused to grant an interview for their cover story. Her media rebranding is something to behold as it is nothing but a complete fabrication in the first degree.
As such, the Biden basement 2.0 campaign strategy has officially commenced.
If it was successful once, why not again?
Despite a colluding media providing cover like bodyguards with every step her campaign takes, Harris’s extreme positions on abortion, gender ideology, parental rights, crime, and immigration are actually left of Biden, which should speak volumes but reaches only deaf ears.
Harris understands that to get debt-burdened Millennials to support her, she must make extreme promises—Medicare for all, canceling student loans, and universal basic income. This trifecta of financial doom would have drastic consequences for the economy, stock market, and millions of Americans’ retirement accounts. But given that Millennials’ knowledge of economics is just as pathetic as their comprehension of civics, it is the perfect paradigm.
I passed on telling this young woman that Harris and her bus-driving hack have one thing in common: We both have never won one presidential primary – ever. And yet, it is Donald Trump who is the real threat to democracy. I’m sure she would have been offended because if one disagrees with the left, one is not only ignorant and insipid but evil.
The time is long past burying our heads in our phones and other narcissistic pursuits while our constitution and the republic founded upon it are being bused over a cliff.
The Buzz on the Bus