This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “https://www.quora.com/As-Donald-Trump-can-not-prove-his-accusation-that-Kamala-Harris-lied-about-working-at-McDonald-s-can-she-prove-she-has-and-should-she/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1”

Out of curiosity, do you not find it odd that Donald Trump is focused on this issue?

He is someone who has become well-known for breaking records for lying about so many things, ranging from relatively benign self-aggrandizement to malignant acts of manslaughter during a pandemic while encouraging people to dismiss the severity of a virus that killed millions worldwide.

His lies while in office killed hundreds of thousands of people, while his continued lies threaten even more lives.

Stack all of this up with one statement Kamala Harris has made about her experience as a teenager — a widespread experience for teenagers everywhere. A LOT of teenagers enter the world of work through the fast food industry. (Full disclosure — I worked for two years in a McDonalds restaurant from 15–16.)

It’s beyond a common experience and is the kind of experience that contributes absolutely nothing political toward one’s future beyond whatever one learns from the experience and money one earns. It may open some doors to other employment as a youth or young adult, but it contributes almost nothing tangible toward a long-term professional career — much less to politics.

Her claim is a one-off comment that shows how she can connect with average people living average lives. That’s about the extent of the impact that claim has.

“I’m normal. I’m like almost everyone else. I’m not weird like some people are.”

That’s the extent of the impact of her statement.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump tries to capitalize on his doubt that she had a “normal upbringing” without the privilege he’s benefited from his birth lottery. Nothing about her somewhat average background is a mystery to the public. Still, somehow, she’s being challenged, not only by Trump on this claim but also by his army of supporters who somehow believe this invalidates her candidacy.

Meanwhile, he tries to pass off a lie that he cares about ordinary, working-class people while selling cheap running shoes at horribly inflated prices or $100,000.00 watches that his contract says he has no obligation to deliver on. How exactly does that serve ordinary, working-class people? It doesn’t. It’s a money laundering scheme in which his buddy Vladimir can dump millions into his campaign war chest without tracing his collusion back to an enemy nation.

How exactly does the claim by Kamala Harris, even if it were a lie, stack up with lies told by a lifelong grifter hated by so many people worldwide for his destructive behaviour that he has stacked up a record number of lawsuits against him?

He brags about ripping people off, and somehow, people want to believe that Kamala Harris’ claim of working at McDonald’s as a teenager is enough to disqualify her as a candidate for a job in which the current administration she has been a part of has shown itself beyond capable of fixing the mess that Donald Trump left behind that will take decades to repair.

Ask yourself why people would care even if she did lie. It isn’t because such a lie is something they can’t tolerate because they tolerate life-destroying lies, so why would a benign lie like this matter in the least to people?

The problem here has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and everything to do with people who pretend to be patriots while behaving in the most treasonously hateful manner toward their fellow citizens every day.

Kamala Harris does not need to “prove” anything because she has already proven herself well beyond more capable than a lying grifter who has been deemed the worst president in American history.

What should be happening right now, if Americans have any self-respect and pride in their history and their status on the world stage, is for Donald Trump to be laughed off every stage he stands on instead of being entertained like drunk, old Uncle Fogarty. This embarrassing idiot decides, at a town hall, to play multiple versions of Ava Maria for 40 minutes instead of answering questions.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/wWwD5WBnqbwdvLeN/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-music-town-hall-1.7352277

After all of this, how can whatever job Kamala Harris did or did not do as a kid matter to anyone in the least?

The truth is that it doesn’t matter to anyone. They have to make a stink about something because the corrupt nature of politics today is that although it’s supposed to be about solving common problems, a significant proportion of the population treats politics as a war game against one’s fellow citizens.

Until (some) people learn to work together with their fellow citizens (as diverse and different from themselves as they may be) instead of demonizing their “honourable opposition,” the only direction the nation will head toward is another civil war.

I’m sure even these guys don’t want to be in a literal war with their fellow citizens.