Kamala Harris has many weaknesses as a candidate. We all know the word salad problem, of course, and her connection to Biden is another. 

But a quick look at the polling shows a sleeper issue: people worry that she is too left-wing and trying to hide that fact. They worry about that for obvious reasons: she IS a radical leftist who has spent a lifetime pushing woke ideology on citizens. 

While running for president in 2019, Harris made clear that she is all-in on "decolonizing" America--a movement that has picked up steam and dominated left-wing activism for years. During a campaign stop in New Hampshire she denounced Columbus and the colonization of the Americas, calling for renaming today's holiday "Indigenous Peoples' Day. 

Kamala Harris: I'll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People's Day pic.twitter.com/sM2Um8YrFF

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 14, 2024

She continued this theme while Vice President, characterizing the complex history of European and native histories as a simple story of oppressors and oppressed. Anybody familiar with the history knows that Cortez was only able to conquer what is now Latin America due to massive help from indigenous people who joined the Spanish in order to liberate themselves from a murderous regime. 

In 2021, VP Kamala Harris gave a speech on Columbus Day by discussing how filthy European explorers ushered in disease, destruction and theft in the new world. pic.twitter.com/2DwIGDuh4m

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 14, 2024

We need not debate the history and the moral ambiguity of Columbus' legacy to understand that embracing the denigration of European culture is a politically stupid move. The left hates Western Culture and Western achievements, and Kamala Harris has embraced the left's narrative for her entire career. 

Gretchen Whitmer, Harris' campaign co-chair, reinforces this fact by apologizing to Native Americans for the existence of America. Not that she is much interested in actually giving back Michigan to the indigenous tribes, but she embraced the whole "Europeans bad" narrative. 

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the people, cultures, and traditions of indigenous communities and recommit ourselves to uplifting Native Michiganders. We’ll keep working together with Tribal Nations to build a brighter future for indigenous peoples here in Michigan. pic.twitter.com/ZlnsAzL7lS

— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) October 14, 2024

Tim Walz has, in the past, gone further. He applauded BLM/Antifa rioters tearing down a statue of Columbus that stood proudly outside the Minnesota capitol. As with his other actions during the George Floyd riots, he sided with the rioters and allowed the destruction of private and state property as a form of reparations to rioters. 

During the BLM riots in 2020, rioters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the MN State Capitol.

Tampon Tim responded by saying "It was an act of civil disobedience" and that the rioters had "legitimate concerns around what they view as a genocidal monument." pic.twitter.com/DA91ZrKm99

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2024

Having grown up in Arizona and having taught on the Navajo Reservation in my youth, I can sympathize with a sense of grievance that some people have about the complex history of the colonization of America. It would be ridiculous to assert that history is not fraught with moral failures, but it is just as ridiculous to assume that the Americas--populated with only a few million people over one of the most vast expanses of livable territory, would not be seen as virgin territory for colonization especially since the tribes were still in stone age conditions and hadn't even invented the wheel yet. 

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— Bill Walsh (@billtwalsh) October 14, 2024

The Democrats have gone around the bend on so many issues, and Kamala Harris is among the most insanely liberal of the leftist tribe. She really is as liberal as people fear, and there are countless examples to back that assertion up. In the past, Harris was proud to stand up for the leftist principles she has embraced, but she knows that she is doomed if people know she is woke as she is. 

Kamala Harris: "We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke." pic.twitter.com/ueVP2hpSup

— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 5, 2024

Columbus Day is as good as day as any other to remind others of this fact. Statements put out by anonymous campaign officials rejecting Harris' long-held opinions mean nothing. Her decades-long history of hating American values reveals the true Kamala Harris, just as all Democrats rejecting the heritage of European colonization reveal something sick about their ideology. 

In rejecting our history, Democrats are embracing the idea that stone-age culture--a culture that literally had not discovered the wheel and which still practiced human sacrifice--is superior to the West. 

Recognizing that Europeans sometimes wrongly treated the Indigenous tribes as subhuman too often does not negate the genuine achievements of the New World. Rejecting Columbus requires rejecting the founding of America. And that is the position of many Democrats these days.