And when the sizzle fades
That weird dynamic where I watch a badly delivered mostly boiler plate White House … concession the right word… speech from Biden and then turn to the cohorts of MSNBC talk this up as historic and grandeur-ous, pulling apart each sentence as though it was a paradigm of wisdom and as though this will go down as — oh, something that will replace the Gettysburg Address as a speech my 6th grade teacher will assign writing out for punishment (double with each and every back-talk.). Lawrence O’Donnell then starts his show on the same foot, and we get an overview of the Biden political history, and his four runs for the presidency. What is hilarious is the white-washing of his 1988, with more to the point I am fairly certain an actual inaccuracy as opposed to obvious elision in staying he dropped out after Iowa, as he showed the man give his speech dropping out (1987 I do believe) with no mention on the plagiarism and resume enhancement scandal that doomed his bid.
I do wish there were a way to get more circumstances of the sort that pluck Harris into the light — ie, the 100 day sprint. Like, next time out can both parties set their candidates up like this — so it gets us like every other Democratic nation does it? The somewhat cheery mood of Democratic politics gives me a few senses of dread. Hollywood and show biz pulls in for a show of support, and good for your Beyonces of the world. The hipness dries out, though, and this is a double edged sword. We have ginned up youth for a 59 year old woman barely known — unreliable voters who need to stay ginned. Meantime the reliable old white men and their wives out in the rust belt and Sun belt and never say at the cool kids table in high school so traded in for their own bunch of celebrities are being informed that “Kamala Harris. Is More Liberal than Bernie Sanders”. Yeah, I heard that one before. That was John Kerry in 2004 as opposed to Ted Kennedy. And with that, you roll the dreary 2019 primary campaign footage of a bunch of Democrats who forgot that internet social media is not real life. I suppose the good news as against 2004 the youth were never going to flood the zone for Kerry, and see too Biden. But as the likes of James Carville and Stephen Colbert get distracted into mocking the war on plastic straws or JD Vance and his promotion of that “Diet Mountain Dew” song (Hey! I like that song!), I have the sense that we do not have the eye on the ball here. Hopefully Kamala does.