While watching Kamala’s speech, I found myself becoming unexpectedly and increasingly alarmed. It wasn’t that it was a great speech or even a good one - because it wasn’t. But it was better than I anticipated. It was, well, it was enough for what Dems wanted to accomplish. The continuation of The Myth.

Kamala didn't have to be great. She just needed to do well enough so the media could do what they do best and carry the fiction of her campaign forward.

Kamala's speech contained nothing of substance, no plans, no policies, nothing. But she sounded... okay. Which is much better than I expected. I thought there would be some level of discernable panic or anxiety. At a minimum, I expected any number of notable mistakes.

Those big mistakes didn't happen. Instead there was almost a reckless cockiness that allowed Kamala to tell lie after lie to the American people. The gaslighting was something to behold. And it allowed an adoring media to portray Kamala as almost presidential. It allowed them to maintain that Kamala was the one who could fix all our problems - while magically ignoring that it was Kamala who helped create all of these problems in the first place.