By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on August 23, 2024
An Editorial Opinion
Last night, Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party nomination for president in July.
The stage is now set for a very tight presidential race that will be determined by undecided independent voters in six swing states – Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin. The “Blue states” are locked-in with Kamala Harris, while the “Red states” are devoted to Trump.
Each party’s national convention played to its base. Each one was entertaining, but not very educational for undecided independent voters in the six swing states.
The divergent visions and platforms of the two political parties show that America is suffering from a form of political schizophrenia that affects how people think, feel and behave. This schizophrenia often results in a mix of hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and behavior by party loyalists.
MAGA Republicans and Harris Democrats are seeing things or hearing voices that aren't observed by undecided independent voters in the six swing states.
To be clear, ordinary Americans are catching hell in making ends meet each month. They don’t want government in their bedrooms or doctor’s offices. They don't want to turn their public school into churches. They don’t want to pay their more than fair share of the taxes in this country, while the super-rich among us pay none.
Ordinary Americans do not care about how Wall Street is doing. These cash-strapped Americans can’t pay their monthly electric bills, car notes, minimum credit cards payments, and grocery bills. It does not matter how many jobs have been created under a president if these jobs do not pay enough money to cover household bills.
They know that "political whores" have taken over the U.S. Supreme Court, and that justice in that court is always "for sale.".
On the international front, everybody knows that Israel is committing acts of genocide daily. It is an insult to the intelligence of undecided independent voters to characterize the bombing and killing of 20,000 Palestinian babies, infants, and children since October 7, 2023, as an act of “national defense.”
The only nation that has the power to stop this genocide and glorified child-murder is the United States. We are the country that actively aids and abets it.
Independent voters realize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is regarded in the international community as a "thug" and an "American puppet." Interestingly, Netanyahu is widely despised by the people of Israel.
To date, the Biden administration has failed to stop this Israeli genocide. If there is no cease-fire in Gaza by the time we meet and caucus in early September, this will hurt Kamala Harris’s chances of winning our group’s endorsement and potential campaign funding.
Between today and November 5, 2024, my group of independent voter influencers will be educating undecided independent voters in the six swing states on who can best represent our political interests. We will also work on turning out our voters in those states.
We will scrub the actual records of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris over the next two weeks and make our endorsement recommendation based upon true facts. We are pretty good at sorting out political fluff and "feel good" rhetoric from the reality of each nominee's job performance as a public official.
We do not accept money from either party to influence our decision-making on which nominee to endorse. We are not political hustlers. We are not looking for jobs in the next presidential administration. We are not looking for government contracts, handouts, or anything else of value. All we want is good, clean, responsible government that focuses on pocketbook issues and actually ends the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
We will make our endorsement after Labor Day.
It is September 15th ...and then some 🙄