Her only agenda

 With Biden elected -- at 77 years old! -- I was disappointed in Kamala Harris' speech.  What did she talk about?  Women.  And Black women.  And South Asian women.  Although predictable, I was hoping she would actually branch out into other areas of the US mess because it's a complete disaster and there are many other things that desperately need attention.    

But no.  She just focused on the fact that a woman had been elected VP.  Actually, no, Kamala, you weren't elected.  You ran for the nomination and lost.  This time you just trailed along with Biden.  And she's not actually "Black", like Michelle Obama.  She's a combination of East Indian and Caribbean, in other words, she didn't grow up in the "Hood".  Oh, and she lived in Westmount and went to the very tony Westmount High School.  So, no, she isn't an authentic American Black woman.  A drop neither in her blood, nor her upbringing.

Talking about how amazing it was for a woman to be a vice president makes it seem as if it had been impossible.  That is a put down to women.  Oh, and by the way, with Mitch McConnell and the Republicans ruling the Senate, Biden will be a eunuch and Harris irrelevant.  That's the way Washington works.

She may turn out to be fabulous and do many wondrous things, but I don't see her off to a good start.  And if she thinks bleating about being a woman is going to bring back and heal all those Trumpites, she's got that wrong.  That will just make those misogynists dig in harder.

Don't get me wrong.  I am one of the women who went to the barricades in the late sixties to fight for women's rights in the workplace to ensure we could come back to the office after having had a baby.  But I have never dined out on it and am not a member of the "sisterhood".  I am my own self-supporting woman and always have been; I don't need to be part of a movement to prove it.

That's why I also have no time for Jagmeet Singh.  His only agenda is race.  If women and people of colour are trying to make a difference, they need to dismount their one-trick ponies.

The other problem is Biden's age.  If something happens to him (highly probable), will Harris be able to stand up to the world's bullies like Putin and China's what-his-name?  Will they respect her.  Those were rhetorical questions.

Once again, the deep and angry divisions in family and friends in the aftermath of this election remind me of the credo in our house while I was growing up:  You never discuss religion, money, sex or politics in polite company.  And our family never did.