Dear Mr. Axelrod -- No, Our Exuberance is 100% Rational

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Dear Mr. Axelrod — No, Our Exuberance is 100% Rational
Sunday, August 04, 2024 at 3:47:24p EDT
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So, David, as a Democrat who was pondering websites like this a scant month ago, let me enlighten you: the exuberance you’re seeing from Democrats IS ENTIRELY RATIONAL.

Why? Because...

WE NOW HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN — BIGLY! I love Joe Biden. He continues to be a great President. But, as they say in the ad biz, the “blink” on Joe by voters was over after the debate: too old, not up to the job. I weep when I think of the courage and integrity it took for Joe to put the greater good of the country over his personal ambition. That said, the MOMENT Joe passed the torch was the moment that winning became more than possible — it became likely. SUDDENLY you had this younger, hipper, intelligent, gleeful woman, so ready to lead us into the future. SUDDENLY her opponent became “Old Man Trump, yelling at clouds.” I can’t speak for everyone here, but to me it felt like getting a call from a Doctor telling me he goofed up on that death sentence. “The lab screwed up. You’re going to be okay!”

THIS MAY BE OUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE PLANET — Here’s Lisa Friedman in the New York Times: “(Trump-endorsed Project 2025) calls for shredding regulations to curb greenhouse gas pollution from cars, oil and gas wells, and power plants, dismantling almost every clean energy program in the federal government and boosting the production of fossil fuels.” These people are monsters who don’t care if their grandchildren live or die. Kamala Harris will continue what she and her boss started: push the clean energy manufacturing boom, cut pollution, lower energy costs, and keep creating good-paying green energy jobs. The experts say we have until 2030 to turn this around. Can we really afford 4 deadly years of “drill, baby, drill”?

WOMEN WILL NOW REGAIN CONTROL OF THEIR PERSONAL HEALTH —If Trump wins, JD Vance will happily lead the Project 2025 charge for a nationwide abortion ban (with NO EXCEPTIONS for rape and incest). Alito and Thomas will resign, and Aileen Cannon and another young wingnut will put the Supreme Court out of reach for a generation and a half. With President Harris, we can do the hard work of re-empowering women to make their own health decisions.

ECONOMIC SANITY CAN AGAIN PREVAIL — A Trump/Vance administration will do everything possible, as quickly as possible, to loot the bank accounts of everyday folks and hand as much money as possible to their “emotional support billionaires.” Extend the “Top 1/10th of the 1 Percent” tax cuts? Check. MORE tax cuts for billionaires? Check. More money shoveled at the Military-Industial Complex? Check. Two goals here — make the rich richer, and, by sending the national debt rocketing past the moons of Jupiter, creating an excuse to destroy Social Security and Medicare because, gosh darn it, SOMEHOW that pesky debt keeps growing despite the miracle of trickle-down economics, and we just don’t have the money to shovel to those greedy geezers!

PARENTS CAN REST EASY KNOWING THEIR CHILDREN’S LIVES WON’T BE ENDANGERED — An oft-overlooked hobby horse of Donald Trump is the elimination of mandatory vaccinations for school children. As I mentioned in a previous diary, Trump wants to cut federal funds that demand children be immunized against deadly diseases before they can attend public schools. So, if you’re a parent, will you be able to figure out if the child sitting next to yours has polio? Chickenpox? Measles? Do you think Trump cares about the life of your child? Harris does. Unlike Trump, she won’t take something that isn’t broken and break it.

THE DEMOCRACY WE LOVE WILL LIVE ON — “A dictator on day one!” “After this election, you’ll never have to vote again!” Weaponizing the DOJ and FBI to arrest and jail his tormentors. Using the Insurrection Act to shut down protests. Making election deniers vote counters/election certifiers. “The election is fair if I win. Not fair if I don’t. And if I don’t, I’ll lead the riot this time.” This might be our last chance to stop America from becoming a Fascist autocracy run by the beady-eyed theocrats of the Heritage Foundation

So, David, what’s “irrational” on this list? Has your soul become so benumbed that you can’t enjoy this transcendent moment of hope? Are you so desperate to get on talk shows that you’ll say what TV news producers want you to say by wrapping Kamala Harris in the wet blanket of your cynical punditry?

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