The Best And The Brightest? - Kamala Harris And The Rise Of A Vaporous Woman

Modern American politics has never had a Churchill let alone a Sun King or Caesar Augustus.  We are a democracy after all and a distinctly populist one, a country of the masses, with a reluctant acceptance of those who rule, and an overweening, absolute belief in democracy.

 

There is no room for doubt on this last issue.  The Left insists that 'Democracy Matters' and this suggestive aphorism is on lawn signs everywhere in liberal cantonments throughout the United States.  Of course not every or all versions of democracy matter, just the one envisioned by the Left - one without the likes of Donald Trump, his insurrectionist claques, backwoods crackers, bayou trawlers, and gun totin' rednecks from the hills.  The Left's democracy is a tailored one, an exclusive, protected one; and the Right's is one of laissez-faire, OK Corral, shoot 'em up macho individualism. 

There is no such thing as democracy per se, just visions of what it should be.  All parties claim they believe absolutely in the principle of it, but beg to differ on interpretation and application - and there's the rub.  

Neither conservatives nor progressives have any recollection of the Enlightenment principles which were the foundation on which the American republic was built - a nation of laws, respect for the rights of man, a country of optimism, opportunity, and unlimited headway. 

The group of men who were the Founding Fathers of the nation - Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, and Adams - wrote a Constitution which embraced and incorporated these principles, and counted on wise and patriotic citizens to lead the country to prosperity.  A 'genius cluster' as it has been called, a once in a millennia, serendipitous coming together of brilliant minds.  Jefferson alone, philosopher, linguist, inventor, diplomat, and man of insight and humanity would have been enough to shepherd the young nation out of colonial rule, but five or ten political geniuses?

'The best and the brightest', a term coined by David Halberstam writing of the Kennedy generation of bright young patrician men, reprised the sense of genius cluster.  Kennedy deliberately and carefully selected those of superior intelligence, rectitude, patriotism, and sense of history to serve in his White House, a leadership group of unparalleled quality. 

This Roman principles of honor, duty, courage, respect, and compassion - etched on the diptychs of Cato the Elder, the educator of those young men who were to lead Rome and expand the glories of Empire have been at the foundation of eastern and western civilizations ever since - until now.

There can be no country more dismissive of these ideals than modern day America, a country of incidental intelligence, corrupted intellect, and the lowest common denominator of leadership.  It is a country mired in insignificance - parsing sexuality, banging away on the black man's rightful place on top of the human pyramid after decades of patchy, incomplete, and foundering attempts to put him there.  It is one which prizes racial, sexual, and ethnic identity over talent, intelligence, and brilliance.  

America has become a circus side show with two-headed babies, bearded women, dwarves, and zombies; and the irony of it all is its currency.  This is what democracy is all about - a program of inclusion of the weirdest and the most debilitatingly insignificant to make a social stew. 

It is no surprise that Kamala Harris has been chosen to lead the country into the next generation of progressivism.  This insignificant, vaporous woman without a motherboard and the circuitry to make any sense is primed to be the next President of the United States. 

'I am a proud black woman', she repeats this, her campaign mantra  again and again as if it made any difference whatsoever to the republic or to any of its citizens.  Blackness, femaleness, diversity...as vaporous as the woman herself; and this is to be the 'leader of the free world', the one to take on Putin, Xi, the Ayatollah, Kim, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Iran and every last tinpot dictator who wants to do America in and take the leavings?

 

None of this resonates with Harris. The irony and the gross miscasting of the electoral drama is lost on this clueless, devoid woman.  'I am a black woman' is enough for the people as is channeling Rosa Parks, the black civil rights activist primed and trained to sit in the front of the bus and become a cause celebre of the movement, but lionized for her individual courage and racial persistence.  

The country Harris would like to rule has been thrown to the wolves by the likes of her and her admirers - a nation of identity can only be one of sectarian infighting.  The Biden White House, looking so much like the America he imagines - black, white, gay, transgender, day laborers, pimps, ho's and every other bit of the ragtag collection that passes for citizenry - is a good example of what's coming if that woman is elected, a nation of nothing but scat. 

Alexander Hamilton had it right in one - the masses, so championed by Jefferson, needed a buffer, a redoubt of aristocratic decency and rectitude, a firewall against the incendiary and ignorant views of the rabble.  He was a good historian and Shakespearean.  The Bard never flinched from his disdain for 'the people' of Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Henry VI among others, and Hamilton had learned this lesson well.  He was not for instituting an American monarchy but for resolutely encouraging aristocracy. The greatness of European, Persian, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese civilizations would not exist if it weren't for kings, courtiers, shahs, shoguns, and emperors. 

 

The American Left has dismissed the notion of 'greatness' and marginalized the contributions of civilizations past.  Privileged, elitist rule has no place in the world regardless of its accomplishments.  The America of today and the one envisioned by progressives will be democratic to the core, populist, egalitarian, harmonious, and yet diverse - the kind of nation that Hamilton knew would never survive, would collapse upon itself, and be over and done with, a divided, antagonistic kennel of mongrels all fighting for scraps of meat. 

So Kamala Harris is the right person to lead the charge, but exactly the wrong one to lead the country.  Her black womanhood will only be a footnote to history, a funny commentary on the politics of the early 21st century, nothing more.  The Presidency of Donald Trump will be no bed of roses, but at least he will scour the country clean of the infectious, viral notions spread epidemically by the progressive Left; and then, and only then, might there be some space for a Churchill - doubtful, but possible.