Should Kamala Harris be the Democratic Nominee for President?

I am a registered Democrat. However, I think that I have to preface this with a very simple statement for the ignorant people out there: Please do not attempt to make this about race or gender.

In the next-to-last election, I voted for Jill Stein, a woman. Last election, I voted for Biden. Years before, though I was registered as a Republican, and did give him hell in the beginning, I voted for Obama, a black man. Then after righting my political ship and returning to my original party, I supported Obama heavily. So don’t try and play yourself with that angle.

Also, everything that I say here about Kamala Harris I have said or can easily say about Joe Biden. Please keep that in mind before you try to twist my quick thoughts to conform to some jaded worldview you might have when someone doesn’t agree with you 100%.

In the four years that Kamala Harris has been vice president, I have not once seen a speech or a talk, or anything from her that illustrated some amazing accomplishment on her part. I have not once, in the four years that she has been in office, even seen a speech from her, let alone one that moved or inspired me.

Mind you, for those of you that are getting ready to attack me, I feel the same exact way about Joe Biden. Admittedly, I have seen him speak on many occasions, which makes sense. However, not once has anything out of Joe’s mouth moved, inspired, or motivated me. The two of them have just been there.

With Joe stepping down, the actual person that we elected and picked to be the president is no longer there. From my perspective, the vice president—and this includes all of them, even Joe when Obama was president—are just along for the ride. They are not truly elected; they are chosen by the main candidate and simply coast on their ticket.

During my entire lifetime, I have never seen a vice president that was inspiring or motivating in any way. Thankfully, our presidents have served out their terms, and we haven’t had to default into one of their choices being the president. Sadly, that was the unfortunate situation here in New York. Cuomo was ousted, and that’s how we got our present governor, Hochul, who, just like her predecessor, is trash. Where the heck did she come from anyway? I had never heard her name, not once, not once! Also, who the hell picked De Blasio for mayor? That freaking guy with his stupid jeans thinking he could run for president. Freaking clown.

I think that Democrats need to put up other candidates who may have taken a backseat due to there being a sitting Democratic president, but that is no longer the case. I do not believe that just because she was Biden’s choice for vice president, Kamala Harris should now be the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency. The fact that he is stepping down changes things, and it should open up the field for other candidates to be chosen from. I don’t feel that you deserve to default into the slot.

Joe Biden is still president; he didn’t die during his presidency, he hasn’t stepped down, so Kamala Harris doesn’t become the presidential candidate by default. Even if he did, I still feel she needs to run for the spot and not default into it after this term. However, from a forward movement standpoint, she would go down in history as the first woman president in the history of the United States. That would be pretty cool.

Better her than Hillary. I’m glad she never got that job. Ugh, I can’t stand her lies and fakeness.

I have seen the right-wing propaganda against Kamala Harris, and frankly, I don’t care for it. I think it’s BS, and that in itself doesn’t disqualify her from being a candidate. Recently, Trump selected JD Vance to be his running mate. That’s another freaking guy that I have never heard of and don’t give a damn about. It would suck if Donald Trump won the election and then that random guy who he picked becomes the president.

I am not attacking Kamala Harris because I have anything against her specifically. I am just saying that I have seen nothing from her that justifies her being picked by the Democrats. I am also sick and tired of the establishment who govern our country. Kennedy is running as a third party, and on Instagram alone, he has made statements and speeches that caught my attention. He has inspired me a little bit and certainly caught my interest. I don’t know much about him, so I’m not saying I will vote for him, but I am saying that, unlike Kamala and Joe, he’s gotten my attention.

I truly wonder where we go from here. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but this stepping down by President Biden appears to be a bold move in response to what happened with Trump being shot at. The Democrats are feeling the heat from that, and I think they realized they needed to do something huge to try and counter. These days, I try to stay away from politics, but it irritates me to no end. All of a sudden, everyone is on Kamala’s cheeks when you heard nothing about her prior. I hate politics.