The Democratic National Convention is starting today in Chicago. Barring unforeseen events, it will be a week in which America makes history by nominating not just a woman, but a black one, to be president of the country. For these two reasons alone, history will be made.
But, that is not really what is so critically important about this turn of events. Kamala Harris is the person whom many--and more all the time--Democrats have identified as the person who can stop the Big Orange Idiot from ending democracy in America. There is almost no way to over-state how significant that is.
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| She is not just another politician. She's a leader for this time in history |
If things follow the trend that they have been for the last almost a month--since Joe Biden stepped aside and nominated Kamala as his best possible successor--Kamala will win. She might even win in an historic landslide. She is campaigning on the premise that joy is more important than all the negativity that the Idiot brings with him. His campaign speeches are devolving from one to the next. He slurs, and he meanders to non-sensical stories and idiotic ancedotes that leave his audience wondering what the hell he is talking about.
Meanwhile Donny-boy thinks he is wowing them with his great sense of cynical humor and his littany of deprecations and insults. Most MAGAs, of course, are far from being 'intellectuals', quite the opposite. If you believe the great stinking mounds of bullshit that the Idiot spews, you are probably not working for NASA. That much seems certain, eh.
So, here we are, at a crossroad in our nation's history. If we take the path to the right, we will find ourselves living in an autocratic, mean-spirited society, one that honors lying, hatred of 'other' and is willing to inflict pain on the less fortunate if it will insure we stay a white Christian society, one which is going to get downright horrible as more doors open for the dominance of the "Me society".
Every time the Idiot stands at a podium and goes into his routine, he spews a steady stream of invective. He denigrates the U.S. as a failed country that the rest of the world is laughing at. He demands his audience climb on the 'hate train' and get ready to fix it all by being selfish and nasty....to anybody who resists the MAGA vision.
To be fair, this is a pseudo-philosophy that is gaining traction in various parts of the planet. The far-right is growing in some scary ways in order to resist and ultimately block and destroy the growing flow of immigrants who are streaming toward the countries that are seen by them as at least offering a chance to survive....if not thrive. They are leaving regions where life is rapidly becoming unsustainable. Without rain and conditions conducive to subsistence farming people can stay where they are, but they will eventually come to a situation that they must either flee or die.
And, the rest of the planet is terrified that this diaspora will overwhelm their own ability to survive. So, they are turning towards autocratic leaders who offer solutions that may cause terrible suffering and dying.....but, of others, not themselves.
What we do in response to this seeming 'damed if you do or don't' situation will determine if we are worthy of the term 'Human'. If we commit to sadistic bastards like Trump and divorce ourselves from the huge problems that portend a dark future for billions of people, then that is who we will become: selfish people who are willing to kill and/or let life kill anybody who needs help and compassion.
In Trump's world, 'survival of the fittest' means that a people need to harden themselves and bend to the task of killing--actively or by neglect--the millions who are in deep trouble. The denial of climate disaster by the Idiot is just one cog on the gear that will power this path to dominance.
The light at the end of the tunnel will not be an arc-angel coming to rescue us from our own stupidity; it will be a great big ol' fast freight....and you know what's going to happen when it gets here.
Right?
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