Politics 101: Dr. Arlene, Unfiltered.

6" x 9" watercolor on 140 lb.  Strathmore paper. 
 

        "Politics 101 and Arlene, Unfiltered. And you better believe this is unfiltered. It is so unfiltered that I have been, in the 24 hours I've been on TikTok, I have received so much hate mail and I welcome it. Bring it on! Bring it on. 

        Now, I came on here yesterday because I'm so angry. I'm so angry about so many things as a woman in America and having to, you know, you grow up in the civil rights era and everything's kind of humming along. We had a terrible recession in the 1970's. We had the Vietnam War. Then the decade of greed comes along and it's like Jesus Louise, you know, is there just a normal period of time that a person can live? 

        But, I'm really fortunate because I've had a chance to live through the last 60 years of all these changes taking place in America, some good, some not so good. But as a person who has studied politics for the last 40 years, elections in particular, you look at how people behave relative to the things that are going on, relative to the issues of the day. You see how, you see what activates them. You can kind of predict the behavior into the future, which is why I'm absolutely certain at this point, based on everything that I'm looking at, that Kamala Harris is going to win. 

            Now, if you wanna refute this, I'm happy to have this conversation with you because, you know, in my 40 years of looking at politics and elections, especially as we move into, the election of Donald Trump in 2016, I've seen all kinds of things and I look at the data, I look at the numbers, I look at the electoral maps. I look at the polls. But more than anything, I'm looking at what people are talking about on social media now and there are a lot of them on both sides, Republican and Democrat. And what I am seeing right now is unprecedented. 

            This didn't even happen when Obama was running for office. This is something that has taken on a life of its own and it actually almost doesn't even matter that it's Kamala Harris. It could have been someone else. What has happened is that an entire segment of the electorate has been activated in a way that is causing them to act. They did it back with Obama, but it was a very heavily, uh, oriented toward African Americans and younger people. What is different this time is that older people, voters, suburban women, people in very deep heavy red states have all said, 

    "we've had enough."

        And when JD Vance came out and attacked a segment of women, it was game over. You can actually know that, that was the moment that this all ended for Trump. It's not going to matter over the next hundred days, what kind of attack ads Donald Trump runs. All of the attacks on Kamala Harris, all of the stuff that's gonna just be thrown at her about race, about her gender, about everything, like just dismissals of all her accomplishments, all of that, I mean, it's all gonna get thrown at her and it doesn't mean anything because the reality is, is that this HUGE movement of people right now this is now in motion, they already know that they're voting for her. You can not sway them and you will be wasting your money advertising to people because the undecided, there will only be a small percentage of those undecided going into the Trump column. 

        Because here's the thing, when you get momentum like there is right now, there is a certain energy. And that energy is going to carry all of those people forward into the voting booth. And the very fact that you are seeing older white Republicans declaring out on social media that they've had enough and they are voting for Kamala Harris, you know that the tide has shifted and this ship has sailed. 

        And so, I've said it in several videos already, this is a done deal. I'm calling it, she's going to win. And what you're going to see happen between now and November, is you are going to continue to see an uptake in the numbers where the polls are indicating the spread between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is getting greater and greater. 

    And it's not a question of whether or not Kamala Harris is gonna win, it's gonna be by how much and with the ground swell, the number of people signing up to volunteer, the staggering amount of money that's already been raised with so much more to come, because most of the money that's already been raised thus far has come from small donors. When the big money donors put up, just like you saw the other day, Netflix put up $7 million, big money is coming in from a lot of places and these ads are gonna keep running that Kamala Harris is doing. 

    It's about prosecutor vs felon. It's gonna be about uniting America. It's going to be about uniting America. It's going to be videos of her laughing, something that the Republican Party has attacked her for and she has turned into her advantage because what people see in Kamala Harris and her laughing, is they see her joy and they see love. And that is what Americans are desperate for. That is what the world is desperate for in seeing the America that they know and admire. And the rest of the world doesn't wanna see, what they have seen since Donald Trump got into the office. 

        So, just recognize that this is done. It's game over. And that what the Democrats are going to do going forward, is that they are actually going to push the gas pedal down! They are not letting up because this is a moment in history where they are essentially, their actions are the equivalent of going and snatching the country back and resetting it. It's going to be like a reboot of America and there's no stopping it because the momentum is too great. And there isn't enough time to run enough attack ads in enough places to offset the feelings that Americans have that change is about to happen. And not the change that Obama brought. It is the change that is associated with all of the women in America who have been waiting for the moment that all of this resets. 

        And I'm telling you, as someone who grew up in the 60's, I am pissed. I have been angry for a long time because I have seen my American that came out of the civil rights go in a direction that I don't even recognize. And I want my America back. And so, yes, I absolutely come to these videos with a point of view, but I also can back up that point of view with the experience of having looked at this for all of this time. And so for whatever it's worth, to anyone who's watching these videos, I welcome you. I welcome your comments. Umm, you know, this is just what I have seen happen and what I think is about to happen. And this is how I feel about it personally. And you can disagree with me, you can agree with me. We can agree to disagree. I have no objection to talking to anybody about this. But, you very clearly know how I stand about this, but for many of you I am not driving my viewpoint down your throat. I am not driving my beliefs down your throat. 

        I have a point of view. I have a belief about things, but I also have the experience of what looking at 40 years worth of elections tells me. And so I'm going to put my experience up against yours any day." 

-Arlene Unfiltered

    


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