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Who Do We Appreciate?
No one liked it when I told the simple truth—she can’t win. History was against her. The tenor of the times was toxic to her gender and skin color. Her own political party had managed to fumble its focus and had used a circular firing squad as the honor salute to her desperately late bid for the presidency.
She’s not a stupid woman. She knew how bad the political situation was when she agreed to carry her party’s flag into an almost certainly compromised fight. Donald J. Trump and his media bubble had spent four years sane washing his every present utterance and weaseling around his every prior bad act. In January of 2024, Big Money at Davos declared Trump the winner against Biden and doubled down when Kamala slid into Joe’s place in the arena six months later.
I sadly was right in my analysis. I was gloriously wrong about her character under fire. She showed so much joy in fighting a good fight. So much grit in grinding out a positive message in a negative context. So much endurance and so much faith that I got off my 82-year-old white Southern (Texas) female prejudices. I left my voluntary COVID isolation bubble and compulsively engaged with persons of every age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-eco-political situation—looking to buttress support where I could find it and to incentivize those declaring themselves “Undecided” to change their world view. I made new friends and gained valuable insights into the noisome legacy Trump and Project 2025 will leave behind.
I have wasted the last 48 hours being just furious at the public humiliation Kamala has been forced to endure:
1. The Election 2024 loss in fact;
2. The Election 2024 loss in fiction; and,
3. The failure of Joe Biden to award her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She earned it. He sullied his legacy by refusing to acknowledge her “especially meritorious contribution” to the culture and history of this country. She had to stand by as recognition and public honor went to 50 others. I love Joe. I think history cannot fail to recognize his life and presidency as extraordinary. I just grieve that his treatment of Kamala yesterday lacked the grace of true greatness. He has descended to the pouting posture of a weak old man angry at being denied a second term.
She already has upheld her post-election Senate duties with honor. She managed to not throw up in her mouth when swearing into service the likes of Cancun Cruz—the cowardly voice of Insurrection 2021. Today she will allow herself to be bound by law and custom to declare Donald J. Trump the apparent winner of Election 2024. Words fail to capture my ire at any look of glee on any face in the Senate chamber as she performs this awful duty.
So, yes. As we used to chant for our team, even when it was losing miserably— “Two, Four, Six, Eight. Who do we appreciate?”
Kamala Harris, for the People—Go, go, go!!!
Go to a good book deal. Go to favorable media coverage. Go to offers for academic posts and business representations.
And wherever you go, take my high regard for a life well lived. Your exceptional courage and determination under fire are an inspiration to women of every age and color and circumstance. You are the Good Example which may assist in lighting our way to equity.
Thank you.
Great comment (as usual). Thank you for it.
She is sort of Ginger Rogers on steroids, you know? She did everything her male counterpart did, backwards and in high heels. The standards she was held to were stratospheric, while he was held to the lowest of low standards. Great google-moogley. The irony of America being brainwashed by the Trump glamour and lies campaign is that we just demonstrably lost World War III - the battlefield of which is the mind.