107 Days

 

Reading 107 Days, Kamala Harris's romp through her discovering she was the 2004 presidential candidate and each day of her campaign was an intriguing read. It confirmed most of what I believed and taught me things I didn't know.

I read a lot of political books, but Harris included just enough personal stuff about family and such things as not having time to make an Italian sauce so gave away the tomatoes to show her as a normal person. Her one night sleeping in her own bed during the campaign was a reminder of my coming home after a long time away to find all kinds of problems.

As an international, who has lived in five countries, some for short periods and some for decades, my life as a news junkie has me checking newspapers and television news regularly from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and of course, from my birth country the U.S.

Also by talking to people in those countries, I see the world through their eyes, ears and mouths.

That gives me a broad perspective and information that a viewer of one source, living surrounded by those who agree, would never have. It also create a huge desire to shake the person who hasn't taken the time to learn what they need to know to vote for a person who will not destroy everything.  

That they vote against their own interests doesn't limit my frustration. 

What could Harris have done differently to save the U.S. and the world from Donald Trump?  

Harris talks about her mistakes, what she should have said in comparison to what she did say. Wow, a politician who admits mistakes.  

In the book Harris deals with the conflict between her loyalty to Biden, whom she considers a decent man and what she sees as sabotage by his team. She never uses the word sabotage. 

My husband often asked what she did as vice president. Her mention of her many meetings with world leaders and projects, answers that question -- a lot. That her work never made the news, driven off by other news is a shame. One only needs to look at many news sources to know that slanting is rife around the world. 

As an ex-American driven to renounce by FATCA and as a person who has read enough to see the bad things as well as the good that the U.S. has done since 1776, I cannot stop caring. 

It hurts to see a demented, evil man surrounded by others of his ilk, hurt my birth country. I'm angry at the lack of morality, caring and responsibility of those who are in it for their own gain and greed and those who out of ignorance helped the destruction I'm witnessing.

I regret I won't live another 50 years so I can read the books and watch the documentaries about the death of the U.S., the why and how. I hope for a happy ending, but my usual optimistic self is hiding.

Although I prefer to be right in all things, that's not realistic. To be wrong about the future of the U.S. as expressed here would be wonderful.

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