David Harriman is a past senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. He has worked as a physicist for the U.S. Department of Defense and he has taught philosophy at California State University San Bernadino. He has lectured extensively on the history and philosophy of physics. He is the author of “The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics” which has an introduction by philosopher and Ayn Rand’s intellectual heir, Leonard Peikoff.
David gave me permission to post his article here. Because of his prior association with the Ayn Rand Institute — a corrupt organization now supporting the Democratic Party — he believes (and I agree) it’s important to understand how crucial it was that Donald Trump win the election.
Enjoy!
Why Trump’s Victory Provides Hope for America
by David Harriman
America has been on a wrong path for a long time. The landslide win of Trump gives us hope for the future. Here are some reasons:
1) Energy: Trump supports energy production and the Democrats oppose it. We get 75% of our energy from fossil fuels. A severe reduction in the use of fossil fuels would make nearly everybody in the country much poorer. There are only a few groups that would benefit: The companies that make windmills and solar panels, the Democrats who take kickbacks from those companies, and some Chinese companies that mine the rare-earth metals used in windmills. Solar energy is great if you live in a sunny place and use it to heat your pool. But everybody knows that you can’t run a city on it, anymore than you can run a country on windmills. If the Democrats have their way, we will have blackouts, transportation will come to a halt, and people will freeze to death in the winter. Furthermore, some enemy countries will get rich selling oil to us. The best alternative to fossil fuels is nuclear power, and the Democrats also want to shut that down. (I recommend reading Fossil Future by Alex Epstein.)
2) Inflation: When energy is more expensive, everything is more expensive. Inflation does not just hurt at the gas pump and the grocery store; it drives up interest rates and makes house prices and mortgages unaffordable. The Democrats pretend that they are concerned about the typical working American; in fact, they are completely out of touch with such people. Instead, they appeal to the elite – LeBron James, George Clooney, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and so on. These people have no idea what daily essential items cost, and they could not care less.
3) Free Speech: The Democrats have unprecedented control over the media. Trump would have won in 2020 if the Democrats had not suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story. Government agencies had weekly meetings with media companies telling them what stories should be suppressed and what lies should be told to cover-up the truth. Views that are contrary to those of the Democratic Party are labeled “misinformation.”
4) Democracy: In 2020, the Democratic Party may have engaged in widespread vote-count fraud. The cheating took many forms. There were far more ballot boxes in Democrat areas than in Republican areas. In many cases, the mailboxes were stuffed with illegal ballots (see the documentary “2000 Mules.”) There is a credible report of ballots being shipped from New York to Pennsylvania. The vote-counting was stopped in the middle of the night and suddenly there was a flood of Democrat votes when it began again. Sometimes the reasons given for stopping were bizarre (an entire building was evacuated because a toilet overflowed). These stops occurred only in the swing states.
The leaders of the Democratic Party call Trump voters “deplorable” and “garbage.” This is 75 million people who are being called “garbage” because they disagree with the Democrats. Is this the Party of democracy?
5) Justice: Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States held political prisoners for the first time since the World War II. Some people arrested for the protest on January 6, 2021, were charged with nothing but disturbing the peace, obstructing justice, and trespassing. But they spent a year in jail without trial. And who caused the Jan 6 incident? Why were the doors to the Capitol Building opened by the guards inside? Why was a member of Antifa breaking the windows? There were dozens of FBI agents on the scene. Why didn’t they do anything? Trump requested that the National Guard be there. Why did Nancy Pelosi turn down his request? And why did the Democrats and their controlled media call this the worst insurrection since the Civil War? Only one person was murdered: She was an unarmed Trump supporter.
This is part of a larger point. There is one system of “justice” for Democrats and another system for their political opponents. Nancy Pelosi made more than a hundred million dollars by using her political power to influence the price of stocks; Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden used their political power to get money from foreign countries (there is even a tape of Biden bragging about it). They will never be prosecuted. On the other hand, if Trump gave some money to a woman with whom he might have had an affair, he is convicted of a felony and deserves to be thrown in jail for life.
6) War: When Trump was President, we had world peace. Now we have two wars, both of which could easily have been avoided. First, Trump withdrew financial support from Iran, which forced them to withdraw financial support from Hamas and Hezbollah. After the Biden-Harris administration lifted the economic sanctions against Iran, the terrorist organizations were funded again and they attacked Israel. Hamas initiated the war. They bragged about raping Israeli women and killing their babies before murdering the women (and yet many of our college students support Hamas). Iran is the leading supporter of terrorism in the world. Why do the Democrats facilitate them getting money to support terrorist organizations?
Second, consider the Ukraine / Russia war. Obama and Biden did everything they could to start that war and then Biden refused to negotiate peace. We built bio-weapon labs in Ukraine. We installed a fascist government that hated Russia and that murdered more than 10,000 of its own citizens. (Some Ukrainian soldiers wear Nazi uniforms and some others defected to Russia.) Ukraine is known as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. With the encouragement of the Democratic Party, Ukraine requested to be part of NATO and announced their desire to invade Crimea (which is part of Russia). About 90% of the Crimean people reject Ukraine and would rather be part of Russia. Are we expected to accept Ukraine as an example of a peaceful democracy? We destroyed one of Russia’s natural gas pipe-lines, and now we have supplied Ukraine with F-16 fighter-jets and long-range missiles for strikes inside of Russia. The Democrats are trying to start World War III.
Why do the Democrats love war?
First, some of the people supporting the Democrats want world chaos. Perhaps this sounds like a conspiracy theory and I won’t go into the evidence here. I will mention one fact worth thinking about: George Soros, who was a German Nazi, is a major supporter of the Democratic Party and he supports Attorney Generals who are very lenient on crime. The policies of the Democrats favor foreign wars and domestic crime. Violence against law-abiding citizens is the common factor.
Second, some of the taxpayer money that funds these wars ends up in the pockets of politicians. The Biden family has been caught extorting money from Ukraine. More than a billion dollars of the money we sent to Ukraine cannot be accounted for. Companies that make weapons love war and the politicians get kickbacks from them. It’s a scam for stealing money from us.
7) Border: The Democrats want an open border. For most of my life, I have been a proponent of open immigration. But this is different. Every year, many more people cross the border than the total of soldiers killed in the Civil War. This is not immigration; it is literally an invasion. And we have no idea who these people are. Many of them are good people. But some of them are drug-dealers, human traffickers (including child-sex traffickers), members of violent gangs, etc. Crime has been rising and the Democrats don’t want to stop it.
8) Fascism: “Fascism” is a political system that has a strong central government, permits no criticism or opposition, and controls the economy. It is the Democratic Party that advocates these views. Trump, on the other hand, advocates deregulation of the economy and freedom of speech.
9) Race and Gender: The Democrats can’t complete a sentence without referring to race, as if that were the primary attribute of an individual. When Trump was asked about Harris’s race, he answered: “I don’t care.” That is exactly the right response. Then there is the transgender issue that most Americans find offensive and bizarre. It is horrible to advocate the mutilation of children with so-called “sex-change operations,” girl athletes forced to compete with boys, and boys allowed into girl locker rooms and bathrooms.
In short, Trump is for individuality, freedom, peace, prosperity, justice, and common sense. The Democrats are advocating the opposite.
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