Trying to Be All Things to All People
It’s a binary world. That’s a fact, but politicians the world over want to appeal to the greatest number of voters, in order to win an election. Kamala Harris is no different. But some issues have too clearly defined demarcation lines to allow someone like her to straddle both camps.
The war between Israel and Gaza is a case in point: the US is supplying bombs and artillery shells to Israel, so that they can defend themselves. But those same armaments are decimating the people of Gaza. How can you defend America’s stance with respect to this conflict when the nightly newscasts are bringing images of atrocities to human life in Gaza into American’s homes? This feels like an echo of the Vietnam War in the late 60’s, early 70’s.
And the environment becomes another battleground: VP Harris won’t ban fracking, but she also wants to promote alternate ways of generating power, in order to work towards a ‘better future’. It’s the usual case of wanting your cake and eating it, too. People want their leaders to take stands that more respond to their own ways of thinking.
22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
1 Corinthians 9:22 NIV
But in the end, who wins, and who loses?
cdsmiller17 
To me, CNN did a hatchet job on Kamala. I’ve had suspicions of their motives before, but now I’m sure that they really want Trump to win.
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My instinct is that there is too much focus on the middle classes: in the end, the working classes chose Trump over Harris. (And Biden’s gaffe about Trump’s “garbage” supporters echoed Hillary’s “deployables” in 2016; people do not like being talked down to by the “elites”.)
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