Odds Kamala Harris Ever Gets Elected

I'd still much rather see Amy Klobuchar as POTUS myself.

2024 is a long way from now. If things keep trending the way they are for Democrats, they'll be trounced in the 2022 midterms, and then when nothing improves for the American people, because it's not like the 180^o partisan pendulum swinging has gotten us anywhere in the last few decades, Democrats will once again be favored b/c The Republicans have screwed things up for the 2 years prior.

What I do know is that we need to break this cycle and highly divided partisanship. It starts with ending the inflammatory rhetoric and blame-games, and getting back to compromise and working together across the aisle for solutions. The moderates in each party should be sought out and elevated, not the ridiculous extremists like AOC and MTG.

How Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Taught Germany a Lesson
Olaf Scholz rooted his campaign in respect—and won.
By Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic | September 27, 2021

In the final days of Germany’s election campaign, the center-left Social Democrats appeared to focus their final message to voters on one idea: respect. The message was plastered across the country on vibrant red posters and featured in the closing campaign speech of the party’s candidate for chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who pledged that a Germany under his leadership would recognize the contributions of everyone in society, regardless of their professional or social merit.

“We are working very hard on respect. Recognition is a question of how we live together in our societies,” Scholz told me and a small group of reporters following his final campaign rally, in the West German city of Cologne. What mattered, he said, was that Germans all felt a degree of responsibility for the future, and that none thinks “they are better than the others.”