Joe Hildebrand: Harris video shows Democrats on path Australia should not follow

After he had spent thousands of hours and millions of words trying to sum up everything wrong with the modern cultural left, Kamala Harris did it in just 10 minutes, writes Joe Hildebrand.

I have spent thousands of hours and millions of words trying to sum up everything that is wrong with the modern cultural left.

Kamala Harris did it in just 10 minutes.

Just when you thought nothing could produce anything more excruciatingly cringeworthy than the billion-dollar piece of undergraduate theatre that was her campaign, Harris this week emerged from a bizarre spell of monastic silence and declared: Hold my beer!

Indeed, the video she produced was so painfully rambling it was immediately reproduced to show her holding a bottle of whisky.

But the most disturbing thing about Harris’s dribbling postscript isn’t that she was drunk. It is that she was sober.

Kamala Harris recorded a painfully rambling video for dejected supporters.

It is that it sounded no different to every other volcanic thesaurus of overprivileged new-age horseshit that has erupted from her mouth throughout her political career.

It is that even after losing because she sounded like a Hallmark card on acid, she decided the cure-all for this was even more of the same.

After Kamala Harris sounded like a Hallmark card on acid throughout the election campaign, did disappointed supporters want to hear more of the same? Picture: Charly Triballeau/AFP

And the fact the Democratic Party actually posted the video instead of immediately incinerating it is further proof that every office holder in that once august institution needs to go.

The torturous combination of championing a clearly demented Joe Biden and then – once it was too late – swapping him out for the worst possible replacement, goes beyond political misjudgment.

It is proof of something that can only be understood as a form of collective mental derangement, like the hive mind of a suicide cult or the flagellants who decided to shred themselves during the Black Death.

After it resulted in the utter annihilation of Harris and the Democrats – the loss of the presidency, the popular vote, all seven swing states, both houses of Congress and the majority of state governorships – there was hope that the party leadership might have finally learned its lesson.

In first championing Joe Biden, and then swapping him out for the worst possible replacement, goes beyond political misjudgment by the Democrats. Picture: Saul Loeb/AFP

The decision to release the Harris video – rather than, say, extinguishing any evidence it was ever made – proves that the leadership is beyond hope and must go the way of lame racehorses.

This is not hyperbole. Incredibly, Harris boasted about the amount of money her catastrophic campaign had hoovered up from grassroots donors – $A2.2bn, for those playing at home – embarrassingly blind to the fact this only multiplied the magnitude of failure.

Mega Democrat donor John Morgan, who wisely kept his powder dry on Harris, said simply: “This disqualifies her forever.”

Frankly, forever isn’t long enough.

And as long as we’re speaking of time, how on Earth in the whole space-time continuum did Harris think that now was the moment her deluded and disappointed supporters needed to hear from her?

That time was on election night, as they sat despondent and dejected at Howard University, desperately waiting for their messiah.

But it was like Waiting for Godot. She never showed.

For the side that is supposed to be about the people, the collective, the common good, there is no more singularly selfish act than that.

And now she and the good ol’ boys figure three weeks later that a video on Twitter should rally the troops. Huzzah!

The Dems should be like St Peter on a Friday morning, pretending they’d never even met the Kamalassiah. Instead, they handed her their Twitter feed.

And this is all before we even get to the content and its soaring climax: “I just have to remind you, don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you.”

What the f--k does that even mean? Are her speeches being written by Meghan Markle?

Just imagine hearing such empty turgid doggerel if you were a retrenched Pittsburgh steelworker or a Detroit carmaker whose plant’s been outsourced to Mexico.

But the endless elitist parroting of idiotic woke ideology (“We have to stay woke. Everybody needs to be woke.” – Kamala Harris, 2017) and its obsessions with racial and gender identity instead of genuine economic struggle isn’t just moronic, it’s toxic.

In fact it is so moronic that it is most toxic to the people who parrot it. It is killing the left in the West, which has now become completely captive to affluent cultural elites and increasingly noxious to working people.

The left has now become completely captive to affluent cultural elites and increasingly noxious to working people – with the Greens and the Teals the most shining examples in Australia. Picture: NewsWire/Martin Ollman

Tragically this has also infected Australian politics, with the Greens and the Teals the most shining examples. The problem is that it is a contagion and the ALP is contaminated by association – as well as by any forays that have the slightest whiff of upper middle class activism. The words climate change, Palestine, gender and treaty should all come with trigger warnings for Labor MPs.

Every single policy, statement and passing thought must be seen through the prism of people struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Otherwise those people will take those MPs’ power away from them, no matter what Kamala says.

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