“Better:” the anthem for Harris-Walz

The Donald transitioned into a Norma Desmond some time ago, but his pallid visage is something new:

Screen shot from The Donald’s press conference, August 8, 2024

Perhaps Donald was never orange after all?

Personally, I am convinced that America must never, ever have an orange president again. In fact, I don’t think any orange offspring through nine generations of direct descendants should ever hold any political office — ever. In the words of George Herbert Walker Bush, a great one-term American president and icon, “Not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.”

At any rate, maybe the orange has melted down and off because Trump is melting down. His news conference yesterday at Mar-a-Lago was utterly unhinged.

Trump is decomposing, and his decline is obvious. He is quick to anger, disoriented, and unable to distinguish between pretend and reality. He has essentially stopped campaigning, and though he claims to be winning, he is in fact losing. 

The race has become about Trump — or more specifically, the possibility of better that comes from moving on and far away from the weirdness, racist filth, cult of personality, corruption, and idiocy that oozes out of every MAGA pore. An era is ending. Thank God.

Now would be an opportune time for Vice President Harris to call for a generation of Americans to service. She should ask young people to serve in the military and Peace Corps, as well as establish an American Senior Corps for retired Americans who wish to serve after completing the first part of their career journeys, and have launched their kids into adulthood.

“Better” should be the anthem of the Harris-Walz campaign, and so far it is working perfectly.

A while back, I wrote about a Michael Franti song that makes for the perfect political platform/anthem in this moment of opportunity emerging from the soil of crisis. It’s called “I’m on Your Side:”

I’d encourage you to listen to the song, but if you’d prefer, here are the lyrics:

If you ever lay awake at night

Wondering if we'll be alright

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

If you're sitting at the kitchen table

Counting up your bills to pay

I’m on your side

If you're staring at the TV stations

Wondering how we got this way

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

Can you hear me?

Is your heart beating like a drum?

Can you hear me?

I don't care where you come from

I am on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

If ice is clinking in your cup

You're thinking about giving up

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

And if you got the news today

Doctor's telling you to pray

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

And if you feel the pounding fear

When flashing lights are in your mirror

I'm on your side

Can you hear me?

Is your heart beating like a drum?

Can you hear me?

I don't care where you come from

I am on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

I'm on your side

If you're weary and you're broken

And you don't know what to hope in

If you're willing and you're able

Come and meet me at the table

If you've lost your way to laugh and

Can't remember how to dance and

If you're out of tears to cry

Take my hand

I'm on your side

Eighty-seven days to go.

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