The Good News You May Not Have Noticed in This Horrid Election Year
Michael Kinsley’s short oped “And Now For Some Good News” is one of the most uplifting things I’ve read in a while:
The overwhelming Democratic front‐runner is a woman, yet all the questions that used to be raised about whether a woman could be president have disappeared…
The Democratic front-runner’s rival is a Jew, which also has not been an issue…
This election season has seen the president nominate a person who would be the fourth Jew (out of nine justices) on the Supreme Court. The other five seats are filled by Catholics. No fuss at all…
[O]ne of the remaining GOP candidates is Latino, as was another who recently dropped out of the race…[Ted] Cruz still could win the nomination. There was also a black candidate who did well with voters, but the fact that Ben Carson is African‐American was simply not an issue…
Most encouraging of all, after an initial explosion of joy and self‐congratulation, the fact that our president for the past eight years has been a black man has largely receded into the background.
I plan to return to Kinsley’s op‐ed when this election inevitably stoops to yet another new low.
