America’s not ready?
Was America ready
For Trump?
For the Pandemic?
For an assassination attempt?
For Biden’s exit?
For Harris’ ascendance?
The Veepstakes
are on
and everyone
is buzzing.
I hear
the fear
that America
isn’t ready
for two women
at
the top.
Too risky?
Seriously?
Democracy
could lose
if Harris
would choose
a woman?
I suspect
that those
who reject
a two- woman
team
would
not seem
to lean
D.
I know
it’s the
indies
and uncommitted
that have
everyone
twisted
in nots.
Firsts
are tricky,
and then
prove
not risky
quickly
after
we see
them.
Bill Clinton
defied
what many
decried
to be
the “rules”
that always
should be
applied.
He selected
another
similar
young,
Southern,
white guy,
and they got
elected
to two
terms.
The first
(real) Black
president
also spent
8 years
serving,
preserving
and
advancing
the best
that could
be.
The disruption
age
in which
we live
creates
such rage
and fear
that what’s
so dear
can be lost
overnight.
So the plight
of two women,
or a gay man
or a Jewish man
along with
a mixed race
woman,
creates
a sense
of insecurity.
With maturity
and sobriety
we’ve had
to face
changes
unexpectedly.
Were we
ready
then?
And if not,
when?
No one
predicted
the last
few weeks,
much less
the last few
days,
And yet
we are rising-
not flailing
or failing-
as the right
thing to do
was the best
thing to do
and feels
as exciting
and good
as it is
new.
We weren’t
ready
for Trump,
or Dobbs,
or mobs
storming
the Capital.
Mass deportation,
no abortion,
diminished
education,
and the rest
of the Heritage
Foundation
stuff
is exactly
why
two tough
women
could be
possibly
the key
and what
America
is ready for.
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