The Elephant in the Room: Kamala Brings Hope and Experience to the Democratic Party

Yippee! They had the debate. Yippee, Yippee!! There are panty malfunctions as far as the eye can see. The views are more stimulating than a summer day on any crowded Rio beach. If Joe only knew what kind of carnal stimulation an 80-year-old man can generate by simply telling the truth, even in a stuttering tired 80-year-old voice. The moment he struggled to remember, then say something that was right there on the tip of his tongue, but Jill could not be there to read it for him due to the CNN “rules,” panties could be heard malfunctioning all over Washington. Hell Joy, over at MSNBC, gave up the ghost and her belief in real in one defeated gush. There were lots of Liberal hosts all across whatever platform you’d like to reference whose future children all turned white as a sheet due to near suffocation.

Apparently, none of those folks ever heard of that old guy named Occam. His razor doesn’t shave all that close every time, but it’s always worth using that point of view to examine things, for a moment, at least. For example, if we look at the debate and reduce it down to the simplest form of saying what happened or, as another way to say the same thing, if we reduced the equation to its lowest common denominator we would probably know what took place in the debate. The two statements which sum up what each debater did, not said, would be something close to this. Joe told the truth. The other guy lied.

The lies were so blatant and so numerous from that lying guy that apparently more than just a few people tuned out and turned off because those who were even remotely interested in listening to a reality-challenged old guy just got bored, is my guess. That guy seemed to miss that he was not at one of his rallies. He was on international television. He was being broadcast to the whole world.

The Actions of Two Grown Men

Joe let that other guy’s bluster blow him away. That was the tactic that guy used with Hilary too, if you remember. He stood behind her, he interrupted her when she was speaking. He was rude, in other words. Strangely, that overbearing physicality worked with his Proud Supporters because he was putting that “bitch” in her place (maybe not strange at all?), but garnered him disdain when it was done to disrespect the actual President of the United States. In this instance, the debate was not about words, but about the actions of two grown men. Two old men. One a consummate professional statesman and the other a consummate con man. P.T Barnum is often credited with the quote, “You can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” Con men never seem to understand that.

I think more than anything the entire election process this year really does seem to me to be a choice about the model we all want to follow as we grow older. The Gold 45 model is a splashy, bitter, revengeful, spoiled, indulgent set which can only express anger for a life spent in self-aggrandizement. The other model which Joe represents is uneventful, slow, staid, careful, experienced, patient, and reflects a life filled with good times and bad times. He got more than some of that. The bad times in that life were drawn from the depth of pure misery. The good times included horrible calculations based on prejudices of the time as well as course corrections made necessary by years worth of mirror examinations. I don’t know about you, but if ice cream as a comfort food cures those kinds of bruises we all experience in life, I’ll have a triple scoop, please.

The Elephant in the Room

Yep, they’re both old. Age is beating up on both of them. That Gold 45 model has a growing weight of unresolved past events coming due at an ever increasing rate as his past more and more becomes his reality. The same is true for Joe. But for Joe the past includes some really heavy earth anchors that keep him from drifting off the planet. And so far it’s working. Which brings me to the elephant in the room wearing that pink tutu. I have to admit that in all of this hullabaloo I cleanly forgot Kamala is going to be an influence on this election. You remember her, right? The Jamaican/Indian American who is most often referred to as black American or Asian American? Yeah, her. She represents some actual hope on the political stage. At least she does to my point of view.

There are those who are already clamoring for an Old Joe replacement on the ballet. I think they’re the same bunch who nearly passed to the other side when Obama was elected. They didn’t die, though. Turns out Obama was a good man with a great education, supported by a woman who believed in what they were doing as a married entity. The Harris’ are the same kind of stable family as the Obamas. Second Gentleman Emhoff is maybe the most secure-in-himself man in the universe. I think these are the actual reasons Vice President Harris represents such a threat to Magaphiles.

Kamala Knows a Thing or Two

We know that Vice President Harris can give and take with the best of them. She might even still have a score to settle with Justice Kavanaugh over his lies to her during his confirmation hearing. I doubt that the future Justice was aware of the family background of the lady questioning him at that moment in history. Her maternal grandfather held the position of Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation. He and his wife had an arranged marriage. He appears to have been from the Brahmin caste. The equivalent, if there could be such a thing, here in the US would be to say he was born a Kennedy or a Coleman. Her mother worked on characterizing the progesterone receptor¹ gene. I have no idea what that is or why it’s important, but the point I’m making here is that Kamala Harris was raised in a family of overachievers who did their best to understand the world in which they lived and served the public good.

In short, Kamala Harris has a better political pedigree than her boss. On top of that, her pedigree carries international recognition and understanding. Oh yeah, I know, haters gonna hate. She’s a black woman. Here’s a little known fact for all you trollers. According to Census Bureau data Black wife/White husband marriages have the lowest rates of divorce². Think about this one for a moment so the next time you stop by your local Walmart to stock up on a couple of boxes of 5.56x45 mm shells. While you’re hanging there at the WalMart deli and coffee dispenser, you can relax knowing that you’re being held in the loving arms of your favorite auntie. I don’t think that Vice President Harris has quite the persona of your favorite aunt, though. What was her name? Jemima? Tell you what, Bubba, why don’t you run that shit on President Harris, should that ever come to pass. I kind of suspect she’s ready to visit with you about your grievances. See, you feel better about the debate already. Joe’s already walking better. Huh? He wasn’t hopped up on anything, after all, Foxes. It was all homeopathic magic is all. Now run along and play because what you don’t know won’t hurt you. Besides, If you’re still wearing diapers you’re not big enough to go to the park by yourself to play with the big kids. Wait a minute and Grandpa Joe will take you. If his knees give out then his friend and helper, Ms. Harris, will help you get there. She was chosen for her inherent knowledge of navigation of high places, you know. You won’t fall no matter who takes you to the park, though. Oh, while you’re there…. Get a cone of ice cream, you’ll feel better. Ask Seth.

This blog was first published on July 11, 2024.

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References

1. Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris. (2021, January 25). BBC. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55786214

2. Marriage and Divorce. (n.d.). Census Bureau. Retrieved July 11, 2024, from https://www.census.gov/topics/families/marriage-and-divorce.html