Why Did Kamala Lose?

For all the moaning and groaning about how terrible things are going to be because half the country is willing to vote for a Fascist bastard like Donald Trump, to quote Grandma, I got news for you.

The more I think about it, the more the 2024 Presidential election bears an eerie resemblance to the election of 1968.

There were obvious differences of course, in particular the violent demonstrations which occurred during the Democrat(ic) convention, as well as the fatal shootings of Martin Luther King in April and Robert Kennedy in June.

But what really has caught my attention in terms of comparing the two campaigns is how the Democrat(ic) candidates in the two contests seem to have lost because they were both Vice Presidents serving under very unpopular Chief Executives and in both instances couldn’t or wouldn’t bring themselves to oppose the policies of the incumbent whom they wanted to succeed.

The 1968 Presidential candidate, Hubert Humphrey, had been a died-in-the-wool liberal who had been a major player in drumming up the votes to pass the civil rights bill in 1965, which effectively gave blacks the right to vote which had been promised them by the 13th Amendment which was ratified in 1865.

What the hell, it only took one hundred years for blacks in America to be recognized as full-fledged human beings…