A comedian told the story of going into a Denny’s restaurant for a meal. After looking the menu over, he pointed to a picture of a dish and told the waiter that is what he wanted for dinner. After finishing the meal, the waiter asked him how he liked it, to which he replied, “My compliments to the photographer!"  That story is the best illustration of what I refer to as the “Instagram generation.” Young people swapping photos with one another to impress their friends with images that don’t convey the truth about much of anything. Unfortunately, we now have our country’s first Instagram-age candidate in the form of Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris can’t point to a single thing she has done that qualifies her to become President of the United States. Moreover, she can’t give us any reason to believe the next four years won’t be worse than the last four years of her and Joe Biden’s administration. In fact, she had the lowest net negative approval rating in history for a vice president at -17 percent. Nevertheless, the media and the party faithful are now promoting her simply based on images alone. No press conferences. No policy statements, except her insane plan to tax unrealized capital gains. No integrity with regard to her contradicting the positions she previously held on gun control, fracking, border security, and the like. Moreover, no accountability for her famous word salads, which are nothing less than her vain attempt to scramble, regurgitate, and repeat questions she can’t answer because she is entirely vapid.

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What bothers me most about Kamala’s candidacy is that it relies on two very troubling attributes of younger Americans. The first has to do with the concept that truth is a feeling rather than something based on fact. One famous example involves one of the most popular topics among the youth, namely climate change. Washington’s Governor Jay Inslee suggested that students engaging a climate curriculum should rely on their emotions rather than rational thinking to understand the topic matter. Hence, Harris’ campaign emphasis on joy! Joy is an emotion. She can’t appeal to a person’s rational thought because she can’t defend her contradictory positions on any number of policies in a manner that will appeal to voters.

That brings us straight to the second troubling aspect of Kamala’s campaign. What does it say about America that so many people are okay with the fact that she is lying about her positions to get elected? That is, unfortunately, the only explanation having to do with all the glaring contradictions contrasting her former statements and votes to her nebulous campaign rhetoric. Don’t take my word for it. Bernie Sanders, when asked if Kamala has abandoned her previous progressive positions, said, “No, she is just being “pragmatic” to win the election.” We all know what he means. 

Fortunately, Harris has a voting record as a U.S. Senator representing California and as vice president in the Senate as a tiebreaker. According to govtrack.us, which analyzes the voting records of our representatives, while in the Senate, Harris distinguished herself by being the farthest left politician in the Senate. She was also the second most absent senator when it came time to vote on bills, and she was the senator least often to cross the aisle to back bills by Republican senators. As vice president, she cast the deciding vote to approve the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” which steered over half of the money dedicated to bolstering manufacturing to just seven states, which happen to be the swing states in the upcoming election, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Meanwhile, NumbersUSA gave Senator Harris an “F-” lifetime rating on immigration!

What Politico said in 2020 when Harris dropped out of the presidential campaign is still true today, “Kamala the campaigner couldn’t live up to Kamala the idea." Or, as Maya Angelou rightly stated, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Andy Caldwell is Executive Director of Santa Barbara County Coalition of Labor, Agriculture and Business (CoLAB), a former candidate for Congress, and hosts a daily radio talk show.