The Washington Post economics columnist has an interesting piece on Kamala Harris' economic proposals, and I find it very revealing, not just about the bias of the mainstream media but also the left's belief that words are reality while reality itself is an illusion. 

Heather Long tries to do something Harris has not: define her economic philosophy and has come up with an interesting and, I think, persuasive phrase: middle-class capitalism. While Long emphasizes Harris' middle-class friendly proposals and ignores her damaging capital gains increases (merely calling the unrealized capital gains tax smaller than Biden's), she pretends that Harris can actually do what she promises. 

Full column here: "Kamala Harris wants to try something new: ‘Middle-class capitalism’"

The vice president is creating a vision that moves beyond neoliberalism.https://t.co/Ujovn9rynE

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) September 17, 2024

One of Harris's biggest promises is building 3 million new homes, which to me is hilarious. Not because America doesn't need a building boom--if you let over 10 million migrants into the country, the housing stock will obviously be strained--but because the Biden administration has made a zillion promises to do things that have turned out to be all talk and zero action. 

Let's take two promises in particular: the promise to connect rural homes to the internet at high speeds and the commitment to build 500,000 EV chargers. On the first promise, Biden/Harris have connected precisely ZERO homes in three years, and on the second, the administration has managed to build SEVEN out of the 500,000 they promised. 

more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states. And as the Biden administration rolls out its new rules for emissions from cars and trucks — which will require a lot more electric cars and hybrids on the road — the sluggish build-out could slow the transition to electric cars.

“I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline,” said Alexander Laska, deputy director for transportation and innovation at the center-left think tank Third Way.

ZERO. SEVEN. 

Our government is corrupt and stealing our money.

United airlines just put Starlink on 1,000+ planes, but the FCC claims we need to spend 5-10k per rural home for wired connections?!?

These homes are putting starlink in on their nickel while they wait for a cable modem in 10… https://t.co/vy4lpUGHH5

— @jason (@Jason) September 13, 2024

Promises mean nothing to those who depend on the promises to pan out. 

The EV charger fiasco likely has more to do with ensuring that friends of the administration get a large cut of the largesse, and the home internet promise has resulted in no progress because the Biden/Harris administration hates Elon Musk so much that they kicked Starlink out of the program to connect homes. 

Starlink could provide the service immediately and at lower costs, but using it would be an acknowledgment that Elon Musk is not a threat to democracy. They want to hurt, not help Musk, so the political hacks are wasting money, harming consumers, and being determined to spread money around to people they prefer. 

Helping Americans is irrelevant. Helping their political allies and donors is all they care about. 

So when you write an article with the premise that Kamala Harris will accomplish anything she promises for the middle class you are denying the obvious reality that the Democrats believe that promises are the only "real" thing, while following through in a way that helps actual ordinary people is beside the point. 

This is how liberals think about everything. Playing with words not just to manipulate people, but insisting that words are the only reality. 

Call a man a woman and it becomes real. Change some pronouns and a new reality is created. 

Most people, though, live in a more concrete reality where words are words and actions are actions. 

Actions matter. Reality matters. Words are just breath.