Barack Obama is now reluctantly endorsing Kamala, and the left leaning elements of the press are firmly engaged in supporting her. They still have to manage the convention, but I assume that, contentious or not, they will confirm her nomination as the Democratic candidate for president. I assume that she will select one or another governor to be her Vice President. The left leaning press is excited about her candidacy and the right leaning press is dismissive of it. The polls indicate that the electorate is sufficiently split that she has an excellent chance of being elected. (The emerging "brat" strategy is politically brilliant and is obviously attractive to a significant percentage of younger voters.)
As I watch all of this unfold, I am struck by the shallowness of the American voting public. The two leading candidates are massively flawed to be sure, but the idea that we, you and I, are putting inadequate thinkers forward to lead us is my principal concern. Trump's MAGA philosophy is just as inadequate as is Harris's naive brand of socialist wishful thinking. Given the state of the world today, Trump is the lesser immediate danger, but the principal problem is that Harris's obvious limitations are blighting the need to embrace more concern for our fellow human. If we are to prolong the human experiment, we need to have much more concern for people - inside our non-existent borders and outside - even if they do not see the world the same way that we do. That is not a moral judgement. It is the only practical alternative to nuclear obliteration.
I do not underestimate the difficulty in doing what needs to be done and fully understand that it may be beyond our abilities, but that does not change the situation and pretending that it does is foolhardy.
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