Public Comment

Tom Joyce of the Washington Examiner refers to the Vice President as [President Biden's] "Harris Mistake." And here is another bit of bigoted terminology from history: "The Jewish Question." 

The current political climate has seriously devolved, to the point of tolerating hate, rather than mandating tolerance. And I was eyewitness to a newscaster on television who referred to homeless people and their encampments as "The homeless problem." 

When we stop referring to people as human beings and instead invoke terminology that conjures up the concept of ridding your household of vermin, such as a "fly problem," or a "rat problem," it dehumanizes people to the point where the next step is destruction. 

I've spoken to a Holocaust denier; I won't tell you the exact circumstances. She spoke of "the problem," vaguely in reference to Jews. When I asked her to elaborate, she said, "About the Holocaust: It never happened." 

That's the default of perpetrators--when something did happen, the statement: "It never happened." This is why in most European democracies it is a crime to deny the Holocaust. It is not a crime in the U.S., because we have our First Amendment. Anyone can say and believe nearly anything they want unless you can prove it is a threat or a part of a fraud. Also, you can't rip off someone else's writing and/or intellectual property and call it your own. 

But, for the most part in the U.S., you are free to have any beliefs you want and to say almost anything you want. You can be sued for it but not prosecuted. 

What evidence do we actually have that the Vice President isn't fit for her job? It seems to me that we don't have any. She is criticized because of race and gender, and she is getting less than spectacular ratings in popularity polls. White men probably resent having someone in a higher position than they who is female and Black. Again, and again, human beings are subject to dinosaur thinking. And if we stick with that, we too will go the way of the dinosaurs. 

Human consciousness is failing to evolve. If we expect to have any chance of making through the next two centuries, we will have to evolve. Otherwise, we are looking at universal destruction fueled by hate, small-mindedness, self-appreciation, and ignorance. 

People would rather forget about Slavery in the U.S. People would rather forget about the U.S. grabbing the land from Native Americans, killing most of them off, and selling their body parts. People would rather forget that Hitler killed six million Jews, and killed numerous others, including anyone with the bravery to speak the truth out loud. Tom Joyce, shame on you. The Vice President is no mistake. If politics is only about getting votes, then throw out that part about leading the country and just have it be a game show or a reality show of who is the most popular.