The rhetoric from the left and the right sounds purposefully divisive. The following is speculative, but certainly a plausible theory:

J.D. Vance brought up the high prices at the grocery store since Kamala Harris took office. He is right. For a moment, I leaned back toward the Republican ticket. Then it got in my head… Trump appointed federal judge Lee P. Rudofsky was counsel to Walmart immediately before taking his position on the bench.

I personally know how dark and sinister Judge Rudofsky is, that he lied outright in his opinions favoring debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, who buy Walmart debt.

It is not beyond Rudofsky and his bunch to purposefully raise prices for common household goods while their cronies are out of office, to make the sitting president look bad and make an outrageous profit too.

But, if Trump is put back in place, will prices fall? Questionable. The first thing I learned in Econ101 is that prices are sticky downward. Now that Walmart knows it can squeeze the ordinary person for twice the price for food, without raising wages for the masses by anywhere close to 100%, it will be hard to drop the prices. It is probably easier to invent a new narrative of why the prices are stuck high and it is the other side’s fault.

For whatever reason, the economy has gone to hell on the Democrats’ watch. And I hate losing personal liberties like we did with vaccine mandates. The gun confiscations proposed by Democrats are clearly in violation of the 2nd amendment. And I believe life starts at conception. I agree with Nicole Shanahan that there are cases in which bringing a child to full term is outweighed by the risks to the mother or the viability of the child’s life. I don’t think we can force a woman to go to extraordinary measures to keep the fetus, and in fact had a spontaneous abortion once myself. That was God’s will, not mine. I did follow my doctor’s advice and had the D&C. That seemed like common sense.

Still hopeful for leadership that wants peace and prosperity for all, I looked at a few Robert F. Kennedy – Nicole Shanahan videos. This one doesn’t directly discuss court, though immigration is a legal issue. It does show that the independent candidates are thoughtful and bright. Please listen to them yourself. Then introduce them to one friend.