Okay, Joe, here we go—it’s mid-August, we are fastly approaching the Presidential debates and the election, Donald Trump’s disapproval numbers are rising in correlation to the rising case numbers and deaths of the Coronavirus. And to top it all off, you’ve just made a historic and meaningful choice and tapped Kamala Harris as your VP pick.
Like you Joe, Kamala Harris is a complicated figure who has a problematic past as one who has upheld systems that need tearing down. We will have plenty of time to discuss that in future episodes. For now, let’s celebrate the fact that she will be the first black woman and first South-Asain woman to serve as Vice President of the United States.
It’s going to be an eventful few months, but, really: in terms of the opinions of the American people who will vote, clearly, Biden-Harris is a shoo-in.
And that means we on the left can walk and chew gum at the same time. Walking, in this metaphor, is removing the cancerous foul lump of deformity that is Donald Trump. Chewing gum is meeting this moment with a boldness and a vision required of this once in a millennia confluence of Pandemic and this economic crisis looming on generational catastrophe. Chewing Gum at this moment means remembering that the Democrats have chosen, as someone to defeat Trump, the same politician that told a group of wealthy donors that nothing will fundamentally change, if they voted for him.
To be fair, that quote was pre-Pandemic. And while the Vote for Joe, nothing will change message never rose to campaign bumper sticker swag, we wow have tens of millions of Americans looking over a Depression cliff that can take a generation to climb out of.
We don’t just need something to change, we need everything to change.
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