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The election is finally
shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris
versus conservative Republican Trump.

Instead, it has become a
larger contest between those who talk down to
their fellow Americans and those who are
increasingly sick and tired of being lectured.
How smart is it, for example, for Harris
supporters to claim nonstop that ex-president
Trump is a fascist dictator—and thus, by
extension, those also who vote for him?

Women voters poll about 53.5 percent for Kamala Harris. Trump enjoys a similar,
although likely somewhat smaller, majority margin
of male voters.

Yet Harris—along with
campaign surrogates Barack Obama and Bill Clinton—has
been lecturing both black and white male voters
nonstop that they are misled.

Or they supposedly suffer
from false consciousness—as if they have no
clue that Harris and her progressive agenda are
really in their own self-interest.

Such haughtiness reached
a zenith when Harris ran ads of actors costumed
as supposedly working-class men. They
voiced scripted talking points to prove that
“real” men are progressive Harris supporters.

But the actors were so
patently ridiculous, their canned lines so
unreal, that most viewers likely thought the ads
were run by Trump himself—to show how arrogant,
out-of-touch elites must imagine how the
so-called “clingers” and “deplorables” think and
talk.

The Trump campaign also
tries all sorts of strategies to win over women
voters, from promising to rectify the Biden-Harris
hyperinflation to reducing spiraling crime in
towns and cities.

But one method they avoid is
claiming women are ignorant of their real
self-interest and deluded by Harris—accurately
assuming that a candidate does not win voters
by belittling their intelligence.

Harris and Obama both
dressed down black men, claiming they are
especially culpable for not voting en masse for
Harris—even though a far higher percentage of
black males will vote for Harris than for Trump.

This hectoring the
electorate on its supposed ignorance or moral
shortcomings has become a Harris campaign
trademark.

To Harris, objecting to
10-12 million foreign nationals entering the
company illegally without background checks during
the Biden-Harris administration is supposedly
a sign of a lack of compassion.

And claiming that a current
declining rate of illegal immigration should allay
voters’ supposed paranoias utterly ignores the
millions of illegal aliens who were all but
welcomed in by Biden-Harris before the 2024
election cycle.

Voters are also talked down
to ad nauseam that they do not appreciate the
Biden-Harris economy given the rate of inflation
is falling.

True. But most voters go
shopping in a manner politicians do not.

So, they resent such
top-down sermons. They know best that prices for
staple foods, fuel, insurance, and housing have
spiked by some 20-30 percent since 2021—and
stayed astronomically high.

Currently, the auto industry
is in crisis. Its huge inventory of electric
vehicles sits unwanted and unsold. Harris and the
left, remember, mandated all sorts of EV standards
in their war against the internal combustion
engine.

Then the proverbial people
revolted against the comparatively limited range
of EVs and the difficulty in finding accessible
and quick-charging stations.

So, the free market and
consumer demand ignored the increasingly strident
lectures.

Likewise, Harris
pontificated that crime that had spiked in
2021-2023 is now not all that bad.

But voters know all too
well that their major cities are now unsafe. They
sense one reason this year that crime is not
soaring as it was two years ago is because it
had gotten so bad that any further commensurate
increases would have made life utterly
unlivable.

The Harris campaign was
further hurt by past videos that keep popping up
of Harris lecturing voters about how they either
must think correctly or remain cluelessly selfish
or ignorant.

So, a recent clip surfaced
on Columbus Day 2021 of a Vice President Harris lecturing
America about Western civilization’s “shameful”
sins in discovering the new world.

Another video reveals Harris
warning the country in 2020 on national television
that the massive post-George Floyd
demonstrations—that had turned violent and deadly—were
not and should not stop, as if the country had
to pay collective penance for its sins.

This 2024 race may be
becoming analogous to an October 1980 teachable
moment.

Then a preachy and
sanctimonious incumbent Jimmy Carter—ahead in the
final October polls over challenger Ronald Reagan—finally
turned off voters for good.

The previous underdog Reagan
won in a landslide for a variety of reasons. But
certainly, one explanation was that the electorate
had finally collectively shrugged their weariness.
They were sick and tired of Carter’s downer
lectures about how they were wrong and culpable.

Reagan, however, reminded
voters that America was better than all the
alternatives, needed not be perfect to be good,
and had nothing to apologize for.

The same contrast will
likely determine the election of 2024.