I was relieved to see Kamala Harris endorsed by Biden, and Kamala getting on with the job. She hit the ground running, and it seems to me that we should let her figure out how to proceed, and wait until the August convention date before we focus on the race. It's not as if we can plan for the Harris team, or influence how they go about things!
One of the aspects of the Trump attitude towards immigration is racism. I don't think Trump was an out and out racist all along; I just think he saw the alarm with which white Republicans—especially those who hadn't been to college—viewed the 'browning of America', and thought he saw an opportunity for himself, to grab leadership. I can do racism pretty well, he decided, the best racism. Top rank racism. I think Don is a racist just to hang on to the leadership of the GOP.
At the moment, the people who provide the greater portion of government revenue is poor people. If wealthier people contributed a larger share, it would be less painful to them. A lot less painful than it is to those who support the government financially at present, namely the working people. The 1% has taught the GOP to call this idea Socialism, because of course they don't like it. They took up the cry "education is bad", knowing that a lot of the poor white Republicans had a lot less education that most Democrats. This made it easier for some of the Republican leaders to manipulate their people.
Well, I'm really looking forward to what Kamala Harris does.
Kay
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