With hindsight I can say that of course a backlash would follow the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. With every advance there will be a backlash. (Hindsight is wonderful.)
A wave of racist hatred threw a vicious, mentally-ill billionaire into the White House. But the backlash receded.
The election of Kamala Harris will cement a change for women, for people of color, for all of us.
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Getting ready for the Democratic Convention.
Demonstrations are good. People should make known what they want. But single issue voters are making a mistake. There are many important issues, with global warming and the war in Ukraine at the top of the list.
Issues vital to the survival of our species and our civilization should come first.
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Voters are motivated by emotion
Compare Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. Hillary presented us with carefully argued positions on all the key issues. Kamala offers big smiles and hope.
That makes Kamala the stronger candidate.
Today Kamala will present some positions. I hope it goes well.
Robert Kennedy Junior's presidential run was funded by a Republican billionaire. The idea was that Kennedy would cut into the votes for Joe Biden, whose age was making his campaigning ineffective.
Now that Biden has passed the baton to Kamala Harris, polls show that Kennedy's votes are coming from people who were supporting Trump, whose cognitive decline is making his campaigning downright weird.
The moral of this story: The future is a curve that is constantly changing. (Wittgenstein)
Sergeant Tim Walz is the first enlisted man I recall running for president or vice president.
Many officers have run. Trump's fakebilly, whose current name is Vance, once served as a marine corps press suck-up officer.
Vance has changed his name three or four times, hoping to find his real self.
As a former enlisted man, I am encouraged by the nomination of Sgt. Walz. I know he has been labeled a radical because he supported a school lunch program for children. But he and I were misled by free lunches in the army. Let it go.
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Maybe 60 or 70 years ago, we watched a stand-up comic called "Professor Irwin Corey, the world's greatest authority." His stance was that he knew everything. He could answer any question. Of course, Corey was playing an ignorant buffoon. The stupidity of the character he played was funny and harmless.
Today Trump is the world's greatest authority. it should not be a shock that he claims to know when Kamala Harris became black. But I was shocked.
