Chasing the Voting High

Trump and Harris are identical in their campaign strategy. Both propose gimmicky things that failed a trillion times before. Harris comes out with price controls that failed every single time in every single country that attempted them. Trump proposes death penalty for sex crimes which led to rapists murdering their victims dramatically more than before everywhere it was tried.

Both policies are stupid and probably not even meant to be introduced. The only goal is to inflame the voters’ emotions because no other sensibility but the affect participates in voting decisions these days. People interpret “self-interest” as “whatever gives me a high at whatever cost.”

Of particular interest are people who say, “if Kamala could solve all these problems, why isn’t she doing it now?” while not asking why Trump failed to deport massively or build the wall or stop the war in Ukraine or do any of what he keeps promising during his first term.

It won’t get better until we demand that it get better. We are allowing these candidates to piss on us and they happily oblige while we wallow in imaginary moral superiority that they peddle.