The Democratic Party and legacy media seek to reinvent Vice President Kamala Harris by running her as the anti-Kamala Harris candidate. The Vice President’s record is a litany of far-left policies and administrative incompetence that no amount of rebranding can erase. If the flip-flopping wasn’t enough, the campaign has the audacity to center her platform around ‘freedom.’ However, this campaign is a façade that masks the most anti-freedom presidential ticket in American history. Over the past three years, the Biden-Harris administration has been unrelenting in its attacks on our basic freedoms, and this will undoubtedly worsen under a Harris-Walz administration.
Vice President Harris’s anti-freedom agenda is clear. She wants to implement price controls on food, energy, rent, and housing. She has stated she wants to put in place a mandatory gun buyback program. In 2020, she campaigned to ban fracking throughout the United States. She has called for the abolishment of private health insurance. And she certainly does not support freedom of choice in regard to education. Instead, she wants to trap students and parents in failing schools, rather than empower them through school choice. More alarming is her Orwellian view that the government should control what we say, see, and hear, as evidenced by the Biden-Harris Administration’s National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
The National Strategy has expanded the federal government’s ability to monitor and target American citizens under the guise of protecting Americans, while infringing on our constitutional rights. The administration has declared that anyone who expresses anti-government and/or anti-authority sentiment is potentially a domestic violent extremist (DVE). It never defines what constitutes anti-government/anti-authority sentiment leaving open that the slightest criticism of the government and its policies can land you on the feds radar.
In true Orwellian fashion, you can chant ‘Death to America’ and ‘globalize the intifada,’ and that speech is protected, but if you criticize the government and government policies, you better watch out. Just look at how the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) targeted parents who raised concerns at school board meetings. For nearly four years, this administration has tried to paint the supporters of their political opponents as radical extremists with President Biden going so far as to declare them the greatest threat to “the very foundations of our republic.”
Even more alarming is how the Biden-Harris administration has used the National Strategy to go after Americans. Pillar one outlines strategic partnerships with entities outside the government to understand the nature of the threat and serve as its eyes and ears. Consider how the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has declared Moms for Liberty an extremist organization or how they were instrumental in the FBI’s Richmond Product which declared Catholics as potential DVEs.
Pillar two lays out how the government must reduce “the supply and demand” of information online. This is nothing more than code for censorship, and the Biden-Harris administration has been hard at work censoring millions of Americans. From the White House flagging posts to providing universities with millions of taxpayer dollars to develop tools to monitor and restrict Americans from expressing views based on what the administration deems as ‘misinformation.’
Throughout Vice President Harris’s career, she has supported attacks on free speech and advocated to curb our fundamental right to speak freely. She even called for the former President to be expelled and silenced on social media. As a Senator, she called for stricter regulation of social media platforms, and advocated that a Harris administration, would “hold social media platforms accountable.”
This isn’t merely an effort to control what people can and cannot say or hear. It’s an effort to control how people think. The Biden-Harris Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director, Jenn Easterly, has openly stated that cognitive thoughts should be declared cognitive infrastructure and housed within Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) in order to combat misinformation, disinformation, and most alarming, what she describes as malinformation – information that is true but can cause harm. This could be our reality under a Harris-Walz administration as they usher in an era of control over the information landscape.
However, their efforts go far beyond information control and attacks on free speech as they sow seeds of distrust amongst the American people. The National Strategy explains the necessity to recruit individuals, family members, and local communities to serve as informants. Governor Walz already put this into play in his state. While he proudly tells his political opponents to “Mind [their] own damn business,” he set up a hotline and encouraged family members and neighbors to spy and snitch on each other throughout the pandemic. Moreover, the Biden-Harris DHS Intelligence Experts Group explored ways to encourage citizens to become unwitting informants and report on each other. This is more reminiscent of authoritarian regimes in North Korea, Russia, China, and Venezuela.
Their actions reveal a consistent pattern confirmed by the concrete measures they have already implemented. A Harris-Walz ticket is antithetical to the very concept of freedom. They have little respect for our God-given liberties. If you dare to speak out against the regime, you may be silenced, surveilled, or even placed on a watch list – just ask Tulsi Gabbard. The American people should be aware of the grave threat posed by a Harris-Walz ticket. Anyone who values freedom should not be willing to cast their vote for the most anti-freedom ticket in American history.
Nicholas Giordano is a professor of political science and the host of The P.A.S. Report Podcast. Follow him on X @PASreport.
