Staff Reports
In the colorful world of politics, where promises are often as flimsy as a house of cards, Kamala Harris has once again showcased her remarkable talent for flip-flopping faster than a politician dodging questions at a press conference. The year was 2019 when the Democratic primaries kicked off, and Harris already had her chance to shine. During one astounding moment, she raised her hand for a government-run health care plan while Joe Biden clutched his private insurance like a lifeline. In true fashion, she soon backtracked on that bold gesture, claiming she’d misinterpreted the question, a move that only highlighted her inability to commit to any hard stance.
Fast forward to the present, and Harris is trying out the infamous price control policy on groceries as though it were an online shopping cart. After dodging questions about inflation for three years, she seemingly had a eureka moment, deciding that price controls would magically fix everything. Democrats everywhere rushed to her defense, adamantly insisting that the woes of rising prices stem from greedy corporations, not basic economic principles of supply and demand. An investigation by the Associated Press into this economic phenomenon concluded what many already knew: price gouging isn’t the real villain here, nor does anyone think price controls will do a darn thing to lower grocery bills.
Kamala Harris needs Pennsylvania so now she is for fracking. One of her many flip flops. You can bet she’ll return to her original position if she wins.
“Kamala Harris Does a Fracking Flip-Flop” https://t.co/5ANLJ15YS7
— James Hutton (@JEHutton) August 1, 2024
Even the left-leaning Washington Post couldn’t spin this proposal positively. They mocked it as a gimmick and rhetorically questioned why Harris would even bring price gouging into the conversation—an irrelevant issue that’s not actually driving inflation. Meanwhile, a disgruntled op-ed writer questioned Harris’s wisdom in proposing such an obviously misguided solution when her political opponents are already labeling her as a “communist.” The Democrats are clearly in damage control mode as Harris’s economic plans have flopped harder than a fish out of water.
The hapless Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, when quizzed about the absurdity of Harris’s price controls on NBC News, stuttered her way through as if the words were written in an ancient language. She suggested that people were overreacting to what had been proposed. Meanwhile, while gas prices soar and grocery costs climb, Americans are left wondering why the woman once viewed as the great hope of the Democratic Party can’t even defend her own policies.
Kamala Harris’s bafflingly eclectic inconsistency is reminiscent of a contestant on a culinary show who can’t stick to a main ingredient. She struts onto the political stage, oozing confidence, only to get slammed when the heat turns up, much like her previous debates. Her swings between extreme leftism and half-hearted moderation reveal a true lack of direction that keeps constituents guessing what she actually stands for. It’s as if she believes the best political strategy is to say whatever comes to mind, regardless of whether it aligns with her past beliefs or the prevailing winds of her party.
The pity is that the primary system is supposed to hone a candidate’s ideals and capabilities, allowing them to emerge ready for real scrutiny. Yet it appears Harris never got the memo. Despite her purported credentials in economics and political science, her choice to trot out price controls could have been predicted by anyone with a modicum of understanding about political history. Price controls have universally been deemed a poor strategy since Nixon’s era, and anyone with half a brain knows that trying to play the price control game in today’s economy is like bringing a rubber knife to a gunfight.
From every angle, one thing is glaringly clear: Kamala Harris is still the same conflicted candidate she was back in 2019, fumbling to find a solid policy platform. The upcoming question isn’t if she’ll flip-flop again but when she will pivot away from her disastrous price control proposal. As history has shown, there are no guarantees in politics, especially when navigating the choppy waters of public perception and economic realities. Harris is bound to keep juggling her principles until one finally sticks—assuming she ever figures out what her principles are in the first place.
