What a wonderful country - Even my dog can become president

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While enjoying coffee at a Parisian café, I overheard two college students lamenting their fate. “I’m moving to the U.S.,” said one student. “Over there, you can do anything you want.” This young Frenchman obviously felt stymied by the implicit caste system of his native country. People living in Europe meet with insuperable obstacles if they want to move up in the world.

I’m so grateful to be living in America, a country whose middle name is mobility. Social mobility is defined as the ability to change an individual’s social status. This is in marked contrast to our European heritage, where our forebears were trapped in their birth condition.

If you are poor in America, you can become rich. If you are uneducated, you have access to learning. If you are unsuccessful at your profession, you can take action to overcome the obstacles to success. This is a first in human history. We have won the lottery simply by virtue of living here.

Recent events in the Democratic Party have driven home this awareness. For example, take a look at Joe Biden, a man whose limited intellectual capabilities are compounded by his cognitive shortcomings. Did that stop him from becoming president of the most powerful country in the world? Not at all.

In the present scheme of things, we have an even better example. A vicious, conniving, immoral, unpopular, third-rate politician with extreme radical views has come to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency. Kamala Harris could be sitting in the Oval Office as soon as next week.

Harris began her career in local San Francisco politics by leveraging her affair with the married mayor, Willie Brown. After racking up a terrible record as a prosecutor, she wormed her way into the U.S. Senate. Her only claim to fame as a senator was her despicable treatment of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. Based on notoriety from that fiasco, she campaigned for the presidency. Democrat Party voters, recognizing that she is nothing more than a mendacious, unprincipled opportunist, relegated Harris to the bottom of the pile and ended her presidential aspirations—but not for long. In a sort of magician’s hat trick, Harris managed to land on the ballot as Biden’s pick for VP.

Kamala has accomplished nothing of value during her tenure as vice president. Biden made her the “border czar,” which resulted in total failure. (Unless her real job was to keep the border wide open.) Harris has endorsed the Green New Deal, income redistribution, open borders, defunding and disbanding the police, repealing the First and Second Amendments, and—ultimately—socialism. During the 2020 riots, Harris did nothing to uphold the rule of law. On the contrary—she raised money to defend the rioters. “She is farther left than 97 percent of the Democrats,” said Mark Levin, “the most extreme radical politician ever to run for high office in the United States of America.”

“Kamala Harris cannot do much of anything but inappropriately laugh uproariously,” wrote Patricia McCarthy at American Thinker. “She would not or could not be elected as dogcatcher in any small town. She has no business being anywhere near a federal government job, let alone vice-president or, God help us, president.” The highlight of her tenure as vice president has been a series of nonsensical Yogi Berra-like statements together with her signature cackle that have made her into a public fool.

But none of that matters. This is such a wonderful country that Harris may be Biden’s replacement as Democratic Party presidential nominee in the upcoming election. In fact, if Biden decides to resign altogether, she could be sitting in the Oval Office next week. All of this without being elected.

This gives me great hope. If a useless phony like Harris can become president, anyone—even my dog—can attain the highest office in the land. My border collie, Flash, however, is a lot smarter than Kamala. Flash knows that he is not qualified to be president. That is really a shame. The voters would love him. Flash has a winning personality, good looks, and can run like a son-of-a-bitch. Unlike Kamala, Flash never says stupid things.

The irony is that Donald Trump proved for four years that he is the greatest president of my lifetime. All of Trump’s actions accrued to the benefit of the nation. “I don’t care whether you like Trump or not,” said Bill O’Reilly. “Trump governed this nation in a responsible way where everybody prospered. And if you don’t believe that, you’re a moron!”

This business of Trump Derangement Syndrome mystifies me. But perhaps I should not be surprised. We live in a country where any boob can be elected president over someone who is eminently qualified. As I said, we enjoy mobility—even the least qualified among us can run the country.

Just not this time—PLEASE!

Ed Brodow is a conservative political commentator and author of two No. 1 Amazon Best Sellers, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden, and THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.

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