Misunderstand Your Enemies at Your Own Risk

I’m a big fan and believer in both Biden and Kamala Harris.

However, I’d say that I draw the line in terms of when you’re being unnecessarily divisive if you live in an invisible reality and ignore that half the nation doesn’t believe the way you think.

I, for one, am not a believer in affirmative action and I’m a Democrat, so that means that half the country believes in affirmative action way less than me.

I only care if Kamala Harris is good. If Biden is highlighting in a 3-parapgraph letter that Harris is going to be the first black female president and that’s a key qualification of hers, that’s not a good move.

Biden also did the same thing with the Supreme Court when he promised to nominate a Black woman. He could have just nominated a Black woman without announcing those to be her chief qualifications. That’s just bad strategy.

Half the country believes it’s flat-out believe it’s wrong for someone to get a position based on the fact that you want to rectify hundreds of years of systematic inequality, by giving an edge to minorities in the hiring process. In fact, White people in disadvantaged areas would (in my opinion, rightfully) find it insulting that this over-simplified way of viewing the world leaves them out. I had a friend named Mike who thinks I’m a racist for saying that and makes my arguments in “bad faith”, BUT Mike’s disowning of me as an ally to democratic causes doesn’t change the way those people think and vote.