I'm commenting here after the 190,000+ White Men For Harris brought in over $4,000,000.
The money seems be continuing to roll in, partially inspired by huge matching donations, all due to great and hopefully endless enthusiasm for a new hope, including from the other side of the aisle.
The implosion of Vance is also very helpful ... for our side of the aisle.
This new opportunity to inspire and fuel bipartisan support for a partisan candidate on the correct side of history is very encouraging.
Hopefully this will all add up to fixing things in a way that ensures that democracy survives and thrives, rather than allowing DT to fix things "so good" that our representative democracy dies.
And the Hope that has risen up from this transition to Kamala is what will fuel the success of democracy and progress towards our highest ideals.
Your excellent remarks about hope and possibility in politics are certainly true in business. A company so big it thinks it ought to be able to purchase favors from the highest levels of government is a poster child for antitrust enforcement.
I’m with everything you wrote except this: “Are the younger generations moving in on the Baby Boomers?”
Boomers, people of any age, really, who think strategically want national leaders who bring vigor, experience and talent to a campaign. Vice President Harris ticks all of those boxes for me.
I’m 73 and a retired Baby Boomer and a very engaged activist. I want to share my load of activism with younger generations.
I was exhilarated and more than relieved when Joe Biden passed the torch after facing mounting pressure organized by 83 year old Nancy Pelosi. Biden did the right thing patriotically, but it took an agonizingly long time for him to stand down. I hope the Democratic Party has learned to relinquish the habit of coronating a sitting incumbent when their age poses an actuarial risk, regardless of current functioning.
Political elders are best suited to be wise advisors to younger leaders. We’ve had a tradition of that practice. Let’s return to it.
Maybe "moving in on" should be "moving in with" us old fogies. I'm 3 years ahead of you and I'm enthusiastically a White Guy For Harris and I welcome any and all ages to move in with us in a big tent of political support for democracy and for progress.
Good morning! Was thinking of you last evening, finding it difficult to grasp it was only last Sunday, come 11 AM, 40 minutes away, that I saw President Biden‘s announcement online and was in disbelief. Then your Substack showed up and we spent a brief exchange of commiseration, including we each in our own way aspire to be a beach bum. Then his second announcement showed up 20 minutes later and everything changed in a flash. And here you are this morning!
I’m due somewhere so I’ve only read the first third of all you have to say, but sometime this week in another Substack comment section, someone distilled what you’re saying to a short phrase, that “we have moved from defending to redefining.”
I love that pair of words for what they represent.
Retired from teaching second and third graders, mainly, but I guess I’m always thinking like a lesson plan… Think of the possibilities of inviting the kiddos to think of scenarios where that pair of concepts could apply. And we’re living it. And all those little kiddos are living too. I believe it will leave a huge mark in their lives, not only when we win, but when they realize what they’ve been living through.
I look forward to reading the rest of your column. I hope your day goes beautifully! I’ve just turned 80 today— feels surreal, but, I plan to behave today like I’m 23. I don’t know why I pick that number but I always do. Happy happy day!
Small donors have raised almost 200 million and counting. Hoffman’s ten million are paltry. Liberating our leaders from those donors is the right description.
I'm commenting here after the 190,000+ White Men For Harris brought in over $4,000,000.
The money seems be continuing to roll in, partially inspired by huge matching donations, all due to great and hopefully endless enthusiasm for a new hope, including from the other side of the aisle.
The implosion of Vance is also very helpful ... for our side of the aisle.
This new opportunity to inspire and fuel bipartisan support for a partisan candidate on the correct side of history is very encouraging.
Hopefully this will all add up to fixing things in a way that ensures that democracy survives and thrives, rather than allowing DT to fix things "so good" that our representative democracy dies.
And the Hope that has risen up from this transition to Kamala is what will fuel the success of democracy and progress towards our highest ideals.
Your excellent remarks about hope and possibility in politics are certainly true in business. A company so big it thinks it ought to be able to purchase favors from the highest levels of government is a poster child for antitrust enforcement.
I’m with everything you wrote except this: “Are the younger generations moving in on the Baby Boomers?”
Boomers, people of any age, really, who think strategically want national leaders who bring vigor, experience and talent to a campaign. Vice President Harris ticks all of those boxes for me.
I’m 73 and a retired Baby Boomer and a very engaged activist. I want to share my load of activism with younger generations.
I was exhilarated and more than relieved when Joe Biden passed the torch after facing mounting pressure organized by 83 year old Nancy Pelosi. Biden did the right thing patriotically, but it took an agonizingly long time for him to stand down. I hope the Democratic Party has learned to relinquish the habit of coronating a sitting incumbent when their age poses an actuarial risk, regardless of current functioning.
Political elders are best suited to be wise advisors to younger leaders. We’ve had a tradition of that practice. Let’s return to it.
Maybe "moving in on" should be "moving in with" us old fogies. I'm 3 years ahead of you and I'm enthusiastically a White Guy For Harris and I welcome any and all ages to move in with us in a big tent of political support for democracy and for progress.
Also as a Gen-exer, I claim Kamala Harris!
You can hang with Bernie and our other young thinkers!
Good morning! Was thinking of you last evening, finding it difficult to grasp it was only last Sunday, come 11 AM, 40 minutes away, that I saw President Biden‘s announcement online and was in disbelief. Then your Substack showed up and we spent a brief exchange of commiseration, including we each in our own way aspire to be a beach bum. Then his second announcement showed up 20 minutes later and everything changed in a flash. And here you are this morning!
I’m due somewhere so I’ve only read the first third of all you have to say, but sometime this week in another Substack comment section, someone distilled what you’re saying to a short phrase, that “we have moved from defending to redefining.”
I love that pair of words for what they represent.
Retired from teaching second and third graders, mainly, but I guess I’m always thinking like a lesson plan… Think of the possibilities of inviting the kiddos to think of scenarios where that pair of concepts could apply. And we’re living it. And all those little kiddos are living too. I believe it will leave a huge mark in their lives, not only when we win, but when they realize what they’ve been living through.
I look forward to reading the rest of your column. I hope your day goes beautifully! I’ve just turned 80 today— feels surreal, but, I plan to behave today like I’m 23. I don’t know why I pick that number but I always do. Happy happy day!
Happy 80th Birthday! May this year be your best year yet!
Lina Khan has to stay! The American people need her. She works for the poor and the middle class.
Small donors have raised almost 200 million and counting. Hoffman’s ten million are paltry. Liberating our leaders from those donors is the right description.