Are You Really Listening?
Considering we live in a two-party system; I loved Kamala, and I was happy to vote for her. She is such a smart woman, and I loved the joy and the happiness that was expressed in her campaign and in her speeches. The lines to see her were so long! I loved the joy she brought and the hope. Her infectious smile made you happy just to look at her. Kamala is a highly educated and capable woman, and we would elect her to the White House. The first female ever to hold this position. She painted a picture of how it could be for all of us.
But would it? Was she listening?
I also saw how she is an extension of the same (Biden). When asked by reporters I remember her proudly saying, “I would not change a thing.” My first reaction was to say “great.’ Afterwards I began to think, there were things I questioned about the Biden administration, especially our arms support to Israel. I understand the creation of the Jewish homeland in 1948 after the atrocities that happened to them. I have read so much surrounding that. Yet I also saw this as doing to Palestine what was done to them. Maybe a two-state solution is best, I don’t pretend to have the answer. Why the effort to silence the crowds of protesters at the DNC? What didn’t you want the public to know? We know the US is a superpower. Who is the US competing with? Russia? China? Many people I spoke to have valid fears of WW3 being right around the corner. I think that is one of the reasons why people did not vote for her; more of the same.
Someone sent me their reflections of the race in Wisconsin. She said third party candidates received 49,004 votes and Trump beat Harris by 31,352. She felt we were screwed by third party candidates. In a two-party system, they only take away votes from the major players, so did they feel they were not listened to?
What weren’t you hearing? Look at the Infrastructure Act. There is so much good in that. Joe Biden isn’t one to brag, he just does what needs to be done. Look at the Affordable Health Care Act and all it has done for pre-existing conditions. Look at the price of insulin and keeping your child on your healthcare until they are 26. All of these things have helped so many. Yet there are people who fall somewhere in the middle and are not able to afford insurance, and there are people going hungry. Is it enough? Are we listening?
The activists I have looked up to and studied over time, Tom Hayden for one, have always said the system must be changed from the inside. Bernie said this also in one of his speeches I attended earlier this fall. “We MUST all work to get Kamala elected. After we get her elected, the democrats need to be pushed further to the left.”
Indeed, we do need to be pushed further to the left. As Democrats we are listening, but we are not listening hard enough. What place is our listening coming from because there are people out there that feel they are not being heard and they are hurting.
What this election did show me is the hatred that is really out there. Racism is still alive, and it has been given the go ahead to rear its ugly head. Creating chaos and pointing a finger is the name of the game by a man telling you he will restore America while he instills in you mistrust and suspicion in everything, making you turn on each other. Couple that with people who feel they are not heard and are in the economic despair of a disappearing middle class and you have the perfect storm.
Logic would tell you to look deeper for the truth, to go beyond the surface to achieve a better understanding. You may not have liked everything about Kamala or the Biden administration, but your chances of true negative impact and damaging ramifications would not be there, or they would be much less.
The fact is you were given the information on this man all along. You know what he did before, and you voted for him anyway. There is no excuse for your actions, and it now has put everyone’s security at risk.
Welcome to the Führerprinzip: the dictatorship of a leader to dictate the ideology and policies of a political party.