POLIBIZ – Besides the bible “I was born in a middle-class family”, the slogans of “never look back” and “turn the page” by vice president Kamala Harris are something quite familiar to the public. However, to a majority, people still really understand what her sayings really mean. Thanks to Harris’ interviews on The View and Stephen Colbert, we now have some clue as to the metaphor of her mottos.
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| Vice President Kamala Harris on Stephen Colbert show. |
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In both interviews, Harris was offered a very good opportunity, actually a imaginary time machine, to change something of the past but her answer on The View as “There is not a thing that comes to mind. And I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that had an impact”, and later on Colbert show, her reply was something like another word salad.
There are existential numbers of problems that the USA is facing as a result of and as a consequence of the policies and incompetence of the Biden-Harris Administration during nearly 4 years: the uncontrollable influx of illegal immigrants and the burdens they are causing for the local communities, the security, the federal and state budget; the skyrocketing inflation; the unaffordable housing market; depletion of the strategic petroleum reserves; the dependence on foreign oil resources; the out-breaks of wars through the world because of the US’ losing its strength of deterrence.
The questions raised during the interviews were actually softball, because they were not intended to push Harris to admit any mistakes of her current Administration. They just opened a chance for her to talk about some of improvements she may have wished to do but missed to do. But unluckily, Kamala Harris did not and does not have a single thing in mind.
Then, so what? That’s what her “never look back” really means. Probably according to her instincts, she never makes any mistakes; she has nothing to regret about; everything she has been doing is already perfect and has no room for improvement; all the national problems now are caused by the Congress or the man in the White House 4 years ago, not by her at all.
It’s also hard to understand a reality that a person refusing to do anything differently from her devastating past is now widely appraised as “a leadership of change”.
Reference:
The View Interview
Sonny Hostin: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”
Kamala Harris: “There is not a thing that comes to mind. And I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that had an impact.”
Stephen Colbert
Colbert: What would the major changes be?
Harris: I'm obviously not Joe Biden and so that would be one change in terms of, but also I think it's important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump. And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks likes, were I to be elected president. It is about, frankly, I I, I, I love the American people and I, I believe in our country, I, I I love that it is our character in nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we, we have aspirations.
