Occam Is Right Again

How is it possible that Kamala Harris might very well lose to a dictatorial moron?  I think that Occam, the father of “Occam’s Razor” – that the simplest answer is the best one -would say, “she’s a black woman.”  And my baby-boomer generation has something to do with that.

Our generation has met very few of the goals that it intended to accomplish when we were marching and singing about peace and brotherhood. That’s not to say, though, that we haven’t made some progress. We’re proud of that progress. The other side rebels against it Ironically, it is that very progress that is coming back to bite us in this election. We’re proud of that progress. The other side rebels against it.

I’m talking about our progress on social issues. We can pat ourselves in the back when it comes to civil rights, including the present-day acceptance of gays and blacks in places that they had never been accepted before. Is the progress finished? Of course not, but there have been strides. And it is those very strides that now largely motivate the backers of the Orange Menace.

You can hardly see a commercial without there being a gay or an inter-racial relationship in it. We applaud that. The other side seethes. We recognize the value of diversity in our society. The other side thinks it poisons our blood. We think nothing of it when the computer voice on the phone offers a Spanish option. The other side rages. We have always accepted change. The other side sees change as the enemy.

And so, we see Kamala Harris as the clearly best option to be the next President. The other side sees her as a black woman and just another challenge to their world, the one that we are trying to destroy.