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The political inertia in the United States is currently to the left.

That inertia has been created by the infiltration of Marxist inspired academics and activists into America’s educational, governmental and other public as well as private institutions.

The progressive element of the Democrat Party is composed of politicians who heave to Marxist philosophy and whose agenda is driven by it.

Kamala Harris is simply a figurehead anointed by this cadre to fulfil the office as President because, like Biden, she can be relied upon to further and fulfil their leftist objectives.

The current progressive wisdom posits that if Trump is elected, he will check the progressive agenda and reverse the political inertia to the far right.

Basically, voters are being asked to decide whether they want their country to further its trajectory to the far left or to risk a shift to the far right (this narative posits that political moderation is not a possibility).

The interesting aspect of this narrative is the position of the Republican Party.

It has no equivalent to the progressive element within its ranks and it has a presidential candidate that has co-opted much of their conservative constituency to the point he is their leader whether they like it or not - certainly the party does not exert the control that the Democrats have over Harris.

Trump is a populist and a less than savoury character but he does not control the GOP.

The notion that the GOP would heave to the far right at Trump’s instigation is a stretch (if indeed that is his ambition).

Certainly there would be a far more conservative approach to governance but a swing to the fascistic state predicted by Trump’s opponents would require a pliancy in the Republican Party that he does not enjoy.

Harris is under the control of a party that is controlled by progressives who want America to move to the far left.

The Republicans are represented by Trump but there is no indication they would tolerate him moving America under the control of the far right.

It is inevitable that if Trump becomes President he will check the power that is currently being wielded by the progressives and that they will inevitably attribute the ensuing purge to a move towards facism.

The irony is that it may depend upon the GOP to protect America’s democracy and freedom from both the far left and the far right until moderate liberalism can be reestablished in the Democrat Party.

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