More remarks that expose Vice President Kamala Harris’ totalitarian plans and oddball ideas have gone viral.
The latest on the Democratic presidential nominee are her comments about seizing guns from law-abiding Americans, her former plan to eliminate private health insurance, and her bizarre claims that Covid-19 killed over 220 million Americans.
The first vice president to believe computer data are stored in the air above one’s head, Harris is also notable for a faulty understanding of inflation and an oft-stated desire to redistribute wealth.
The name for her ideology: Kamunism.
Gun-grabber Kamala
“The problem is that Congress does not have the courage to act” on guns, Harris said in 2019, during her first presidential campaign. “And that is why, from the beginning, I have said, my agenda includes attempting to get Congress to act but if they don’t within the first 100 days of my administration, I’m gonna take executive action. Because what we need is action.”
Harris, the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) legislative arm has noted, favors a mandatory buyback program that would seize all the guns and rifles that she and her anti-Second Amendment backers don’t like. She favors the totalitarian measure that Australia’s legislature passed in 1996.
“Harris has repeatedly supported prohibiting and confiscating commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, including America’s most popular rifle — the AR-15,” the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) reported in July.
Confiscation through buyback is a “good idea,” she said. “We have to work out the details … but … we have to take those guns off the streets.”
On September 16, 2019, she told leftist late-night talker Jimmy Fallon, “I do believe that we need to do buybacks” and that “a buyback program is a good idea,” NRA-ILA reported.
She said so again that October. And just last year, in a meeting with Australia’s prime minister, Harris praised his nation’s gun law.
“And let us be clear, it does not have to be this way,” she said of gun violence, “as our friends in Australia have demonstrated.”
Make no mistake about it, a buyback plan means outright confiscation, likely by force for those who refuse to surrender their firearms to Harris’ gendarmes, NRA-ILA observed:
In 1996, Australia adopted a near total ban on civilian ownership of semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns. To coincide with the new restrictions, the government instituted a mandatory “buy-back” confiscation scheme where gun owners were warned that they were required to turn their newly-prohibited firearms over to the government for a set price. As the scheme did not grandfather the possession of firearms owned prior to the new restrictions, the ban and “buy-back” amounted to gun confiscation.
No Private Health Insurance; 220M Virus Deaths
Harris’ former plans for health care were as bad as her plan to seize guns.
Though “Medicare for All” (MFA) is “not on her agenda” now, Politico reported, at one time it very much was. She cosponsored Independent socialist Senator Bernie Sanders’ MFA bill. And at a town hall in 2019, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that even if you like your health plan, you can’t keep it.
When Tapper asked if MFA would eliminate private health insurance, Harris was clear:
Well, listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. And you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork, all of the delay that may require. Who of us has not had that situation where you’ve got to wait for approval and the doctor says, well I don’t know if your insurance company is gonna cover this? Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.
But Medicare itself does not cover all medical procedures and requires approval for others. And nothing would stop her from putting MFA on her agenda again.
Harris’ inability to understand basic math might explain her support for MFA.
More than once, she has claimed that the Covid virus killed more than 200 million Americans. That’s 67 percent of the population.
“We’re in the middle of a crisis caused by this pandemic that is a public health crisis. We’re looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died,” she said in North Carolina in October 2020.
In Ohio that same month, she uttered the ridiculous claim again:
We are in the midst of a public health epidemic that has taken the lives of over 220 million Americans in just the last several months.
Harris’ loose grasp of population demographics is of a piece with her misunderstanding of how cloud storage works. Harris believes computer data hovers in the air:
So no longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that’s locked in the basement of the house.
It’s on your laptop and it’s then therefore up here in this cloud that exists above us. Right? It’s no longer in a physical place.
Thankfully, Harris’ misunderstanding of modern technology likely can’t hurt the country, per se.
Redistributionist
However, her leftist ideology, which has led many mainstream commentators to call her a communist, can. Like all leftists, Harris believes wealth is “distributed,” not earned. Thus must it be redistributed in the name of “equity.”
Americans must have a “goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place,” she believes. “And since we didn’t start in the same place, some folks might need more equitable distribution.”
As well, she said, we must be “giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding that not everyone starts out at the same place.”
“So there is a big difference between equality and equity,” she thinks:
Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing. Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place, as opposed to equity, which is everyone should end up in the same place. And if you then understand not everybody started out in the same place, you understand some people need more, so we all end up in the same place. Right?
Harris also favors price controls to curb inflation, which she thinks is caused by businesses raising prices. She says another factor is the “supply chain.”
In fact, inflation is the result of an inflated money supply.
