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Why a President Biden Will Make Parenting So Much Easier
What Van Jones was talking about:
https://www.vogue.com/article/president-biden-will-make-parenting-so-much-easier
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Now, I know that parents have no special claim on election-season distress. We’re all suffering. But with a Biden win in sight, within tantalizing grasp, I would like to define a special, singular brand of relief. What a joy it will be for parents of young children to be able to actually talk about the presidency at dinner. What a pleasure to speak about decency and honesty and niceness in the White House without treating those concepts as hypothetical. What a relief it will be to give voice to a few battered ideals, to engage in some semblance of actual patriotism, to moralize even! Yes, William, a president should be nice. No, William, a president does not lie. Yes, this country rewards character, decency, a capacity for empathy and selflessness.
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I would like goodness to matter to my son. I would like him to admire his president and want his president to be honest and kind. I believe William needs a corrective on that front as much as the rest of us do.
“Is Biden winning?” William chirps, over my shoulder as I sit hunched at my laptop, waiting for the votes to be counted, rooting for the good guy. We watch those electoral college totals—the blue line and the red line. The blue line is ever closer to 270. “Is Joe Biden going to be our president?” he asks. And it gives me profound happiness to drop all my doubts and fears and simply say, “Yes, William, I think he is.”
Now, I know that parents have no special claim on election-season distress. We’re all suffering. But with a Biden win in sight, within tantalizing grasp, I would like to define a special, singular brand of relief. What a joy it will be for parents of young children to be able to actually talk about the presidency at dinner. What a pleasure to speak about decency and honesty and niceness in the White House without treating those concepts as hypothetical. What a relief it will be to give voice to a few battered ideals, to engage in some semblance of actual patriotism, to moralize even! Yes, William, a president should be nice. No, William, a president does not lie. Yes, this country rewards character, decency, a capacity for empathy and selflessness.
. . .
I would like goodness to matter to my son. I would like him to admire his president and want his president to be honest and kind. I believe William needs a corrective on that front as much as the rest of us do.
“Is Biden winning?” William chirps, over my shoulder as I sit hunched at my laptop, waiting for the votes to be counted, rooting for the good guy. We watch those electoral college totals—the blue line and the red line. The blue line is ever closer to 270. “Is Joe Biden going to be our president?” he asks. And it gives me profound happiness to drop all my doubts and fears and simply say, “Yes, William, I think he is.”
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