Please Vote for Kamala Harris for President
An official endorsement.
It is a longstanding tradition — one, that goodness, has now gone on for more than eight years — that, in an even-numbered election year, I write an electoral endorsement post. Here’s 2016, and here’s 2018, and here’s 2020, and here’s 2022. This year, during a time when there is nothing most people want to talk about less right now than politics, I have decided to write two.
Last week’s, Part One, attempt to grapple, hopefully one last time, with the Trump era. You can read it right here. Today’s: An endorsement of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Ninety percent of life is showing up,” some man whose name I can’t remember once said. Source of this quote aside, I’ve long found this an invaluable life lesson — perhaps the most important lesson of all. The key to the lesson’s wisdom is two-fold.
- You have very little control over what happens in your life. Good things will happen, bad things will happen, and in many ways, you just have to hope, when good things do, you are standing in the right place, and when bad things do, you have to hope you’re standing somewhere else. But key to this is that you do have to be standing somewhere. If you don’t put yourself in position to be in the right place for good things to find you, they won’t.
