Posted on 08/07/2024 4:35:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you know where to look, there is already plenty of information on what Harris is going to do if she has the chance to impose California’s liberal progressive agenda on the entire nation.
Long before fate made Kamala Harris the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for U.S. President, the Washington Post published an article critical of how she treats staff. The article, published in December of 2021, reported high staff turnover and claimed it “opens up questions about her management style.”
What were they thinking? Very recent top search results on the Washington Post’s coverage of Harris only pull up glowing tributes. In the past two weeks, here are just a few: “Kamala Harris is making politics fun again — for Democrats,” “Democrats make a change and find their hope,” “Kamala Harris and the coconut tree of hope,” “Kamala Harris’s life, career and firsts from AG to the vice presidency,” “Kamala Harris’s powerful laughter in the face of weirdness,” “Kamala Harris walks into the storm — and keeps her footing,” “How Kamala Harris’s early career prepared her for this moment.”
Had enough? Like nearly every other major newspaper and broadcast property in America, the Washington Post is now all in for Harris. Suddenly, she can do no wrong. But reports of her pattern of abusive treatment of staff are credible. In 2019, a small Northern California newspaper published an article by a local elected official, Terry McAteer, where he described the office environment of then California State Attorney General Harris, where his son had served as an intern. In his article, titled “Another Side to Kamala Harris,” McAteer claimed that Harris “instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General.’” McAteer said that Harris “vocally throws around ‘F-bombs’ and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.”
How Harris treats staff is corroborated by the high turnover at her office during her time as vice president. Now that all eyes are focused on her candidacy for president, OpenBooks has conducted an investigation. They found her office had “an extraordinarily high 91.5-percent staff turnover rate.” Of the 47 staffers initially assigned to Harris in 2021, only four remain.
Reports of Harris’s managerial dysfunction were not forbidden territory for the liberal press prior to July 20, 2024. In October 2023, The Atlantic published an article titled “The Kamala Harris Problem – Few people seem to think she’s ready to be president.” Conservative news outlets have also exposed Harris’s weakness as a manager. In 2022, the National Review published an article with the self-explanatory title “People Really, Really Do Not Want to Work for Kamala Harris.” And unsurprisingly, over the past few weeks, similar articles can be found at the New York Post and Fox News.
Missing so far from these revelations—which we are unlikely to ever see again in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, or any other state-approved media—is the connection between Harris’s abusive personality and the essential culture of the left. Someone who explains the pathology of the left with extraordinary clarity is Thomas Sowell, whose quotes on the topic include the following:
The opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.” “People on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them.” “No one can really understand the political left without understanding that they are about making themselves feel superior.” “The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom.
These quotes aptly define Kamala Harris’s political philosophy, but they are equally applicable to her personality and how she treats people. By extension, this explains the character of leftists in general. It explains why Democrat rallies are populated with individuals who are almost all angry and resentful. And further insight into the culture of the left is found in the institutions that, in the 20th century, became the foundation of their power: radical labor unions. The first major unions to endorse Harris for president in 2024 were the teachers unions: the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
We may acknowledge the vital role that some private sector unions can have in America while still maintaining a clear-eyed appraisal of the teachers unions. They are invariably far-left organizations that have done everything in their power to destroy public education. Their entire political agenda is divisive and confrontational (why should they even have a political agenda?), whether it’s their hypocritical and incessant attacks on “corporations and billionaires” or their fanatical adherence to every dingbat theory of race, gender, and climate ever conceived.
Union support for Harris goes back a long way. During her first bid for major office in 2010, in an unusually tight race against moderate Republican Steve Cooley to become California Attorney General, “union groups, including the California Labor Federation, Service Employees International Union Local 1000 and the California Nurses Association, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help lift Harris to a narrow victory.”
There is something inherently antagonistic about unions. They can usually compel workers to become dues-paying members. They typically portray employers as perpetual adversaries. And unlike businesses that have to compete for customers who have many options, their ultimate tool of influence is going on strike. This antagonism, however, is compounded by the radical leftist bias of unions in California. One way to understand just how pervasively this culture dominates politicians in Harris’s home state can be found by evaluating the backgrounds of the state’s legislators. In 2020, 75 percent of California’s Democratic state legislators had biographies that indicated a background exclusively involving unions and government agencies, compared to only 34 percent of Republicans.
Further evidence of union dominance of California’s politicians is easily found by reviewing their donors. When searching campaign contributions by amount, it is common to find Democratic state legislators in California where every one of their top 20 contributors is a labor union. Usually they are public sector unions, and the biggest player is the teachers union.
In business, even in those corporations that have been corrupted by woke ideology such as we are seeing today, meritocracy remains essential for success. Until the fusion of big labor, big business, and big government is complete—something Democrats and RINOs can’t seem to push forward fast enough—corporate merit is mostly found in operating competence. Qualified engineers. Competitive products. But in the world of government and politics, merit is found in conformity and personal relationships. Not what you know, but who you know.
Obviously, this isn’t binary. Who you know is important for success, even in uncorrupted and competitive businesses. But in the world of government agencies, it’s everything. Out of touch and untouchable thanks to their unions, government workers advance not through competence but through connections and conformity. Then the most reliable among them get tapped to run for office.
This is the environment in which Kamala Harris climbed to the pinnacle of American politics. A culture of leftist hostility mixed with the us-versus-them mentality of unions. A culture where power based on political connections is the only power that matters.
If you know where to look, there is already plenty of information on what Kamala Harris is going to do if she has the chance to impose California’s liberal progressive (and corporatist) political agenda on the entire nation. But it is important to recognize that behind her proclamations of compassion and her incandescent smile and ditzy public persona, there is a conniving and angry person who was made for authoritarian governance. This dangerous duplicity exemplifies what we must always expect from everyone on the left. All of them.
Power and control.
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Harris and Meghan Markle are two sides of the same coin...
Watch what leftists do, not what they say.
Abusing your Staff can get you strange things in your food and beverages
Libturds be like, “Buh, buh, but TrUmP iz HitLeR! DeRp! HuRr-dUrR! He sEnt mEAn tWeeTz!”
Don’t forget Biden’s strutting around in front of his female (and probably male) security agents totally naked, earning him his famed code name. (Heads up! Prunedangle is heading to the pool for a dip!)
The elites vs those whose only purpose is to serve them. It’s a shame those peasants have to be fed and tolerated.
They ALWAYS kissed up and kicked down.
Kamala is the perfect example.
And being a Democrat, she naturally believes the little people are there to be abused because they don't have a voice and they don't matter.
She gets high marks from The Chairman on how she runs things.
America is transitioning to unquestionable one-party rule as rapidly as possible. Democracy means those in power are not bothered by the wishes of the governed. The more those in charge are unloved, the better the government.
92 Percent Of Kamala Harris’ Staff Left In Her First Three Years As VP
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4253558/posts
VP Kamala Harris Had 92-Percent Staff Turnover During Her First Three Years
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4253370/posts
People should go to her functions with signs that say “Good Morning General”
That’s a great idea!
I guess her staff never picked up on that.
Sounds like Shelia Jackson-Lee who not only for decades affected the speaking style of Barbara Jordan (I one chatted with her the an hour, I doubt she would be a Democratik today) but she also was a bitch to her staff. Has, karma just hit around to handling Shelia so she now only complains to Satan.
“Jackson Lee was born Sheila Jackson in the borough of Queens, New York City. Her father, Ezra Clyde Jackson, who was born in Brooklyn, was a comic book artist and the son of Jamaican immigrants.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee
“McAteer claimed that Harris “instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General.’””
A monument to get basic stupidity. The attorney general term is not the rank of general. It refers to the position being the “general” or overall attorney for the state. The idiot probably has stars due can pin in and thinks she’s a type of military general.
“...Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture...”
That is true. I worked in an office with a Liberal supervisor and Liberal co workers... the rule was, “Agree with us .. kiss our a*& or you are dead meat! “
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