(A huge, bright salad from above with vegetables surrounding it.)
It’s a rainy Tuesday in Chicago, and it looks like we’ll be keeping our governor because Vice President Harris’ pick for her own VP is…Gov. Tim Walz!
He was the odds-on favorite at this point and apparently is the originator of calling the weird weird, which they really don’t seem to like. It was a tough, quick vetting process but it seems like it was well done.
And on top of all of that, I just learned that Peggy Flanagan, the Lt. Gov, is also a Native American woman so she might just be the first Native American governor who is a woman! So plusses in every direction.
In a quick convo with a friend this morning, we were talking about how we see the Democratic party embracing what the fascist republicans like to call “identity politics” in the splashiest fashion, as fundraiser after fundraiser bring groups in to support VP Harris.
For so long, the right have tried to make us “defensive” about believing in, well, diversity, equity and inclusion. Like it’s a defect about which we should be embarrassed. That while they talk about “pride” of the kind of nazis, with their so-called Christian twist, we are supposed to be ashamed of having a wide range of people, a human rainbow with more colors than the eye can see, under our tent.
Well screw that.
Diversity is our strength. If we’ve seen anything these fast-flying last two weeks, it’s exactly that: we can all be our exact selves and still fit in just fine.
Years ago, someone described the US not as a “melting pot,” in which everyone loses their uniqueness and melds together, but as a big salad, with every single difference increasing the flavor.
I love that metaphor.
For me, there is nothing more beautiful in the human experience than authentic people interacting with authentic people who are different from them in whatever ways we differ. People being themselves, freely, without reserve.
Except for nazis fascist republicans. They need to learn how to keep that stuff to themselves again.
So on we go, toward a victory that will cement us in the right timeline, finally, no longer on a dystopian stub that is likely to burn itself out.
Hopefully that wasn’t too scifi for the non-scify-y, but that is how it feels, like we are finally back on track to where we should be.
Like we’re finally, finally home.
Have a great Tuesday.
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