Tuesday, July 30, 2024

So here's a followup to a followup to a followup, etc., Tropical Soulvangelical wants to make about the Kamala campaign, and he wants to be able to repeat certain points here, and probably not make any real central points. He really likes Kamala a lot and wants to donate to her campaign when he gets a chance. He's thinking that the honeymoon will have been over by the time he does so, because, again, society makes it so he never gets anything done "on time." But he still sees himself in the independent camp in some respects in his tropical conservatism. He absolutely -has not- joined "Kamalot" because he thinks that's disturbing, both with respect to Obama and JFK. He also feels it unlikely he'll "bro" with Kamala like he did with Biden and Warren, partly because of the disturbance of Kamalot and how he thinks Kamala is unlikely to placate the "cease fire" crowd. That last bit he thinks is because of his cynicism, also borne of tropical soul, that the "cease fire" crowd don't just want a cease fire. He's unconvinced that that's -not- their getting the foot in the door and then declaring Cease Israel. He saw what happened back in April and May with "activists" coming onto colleges out of nowhere, breaking into buildings, taking down flags, doing Days Of Rage, making students of a variety of cultural heritages feel uncomfortable, not to mention actually -celebrating- 10/7. TSV already listened to the video that Kamala as VP made about Israel and Gaza to point out it's not a "binary issue," and that nobody of any background should be made to feel threatened or harassed or uncomfortable. TSV strongly doubts that will mollify that half of the activism that's purist about a "one state solution," and which he perceives drove most of young people's anti-Biden feeling, even though TSV sees it as an extremist and untenable position, for either Biden or Kamala. He heard on Philadelphia radio how this is a "movement" that "worries" about Kamala, because TSV sees her making a common sense proposal which he thinks can turn off enough young people who seem to want extremism. He already got me The Happy Bachelor to channel his misgivings about so-called "youth power," because he's not convinced that it's not systematic ageism or a -trump- level threat to democracy. He understands about attracting young voters from a marketing perspective, but he wants there to be an inclusion of all age groups, and not just 18-35. There are far more people, he thinks, 36 and older who want to help Kamala and help stop -trump- who don't want to end up digging their parental graves allowing young people to protest, for example, bedtime and cleaning up their rooms. So the one thing he thinks would help Kamala with the independent not-Kamalot crowd is a sitdown about basic right-and-wrong and whether her relationship to the concept of principle got her originally interested in the legal profession before she turned to public service. This would help him help her help him, as well as antitrump voters all over the spectrum mostly worried about the future of basic right-and-wrong in the national culture. Stay tuned.

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