"Better than the alternative." I'm not sure many people have any huge hopes for Harris, aside from it being nice to finally have a female chief executive (an a

"Better than the alternative." I'm not sure many people have any huge hopes for Harris, aside from it being nice to finally have a female chief executive (an achievement most other peer nations made long ago; even Pakistan had a female PM). When Obama was elected, the US had gone through 2 terms of GWB's terrible policies and the two wars he started (1 somewhat justified, 1 complete BS, both handled extremely poorly after the initial military victory). Obama was running against McCain/Palin, with McCain being a pretty reasonable Republican and decent person, and very unlikely to start any stupid new wars, but with a complete airhead running mate who thought Africa was a single country. It wouldn't have been a total disaster if McCain won, as long as he didn't die in office. This time around, the country has already seen what 1 Trump term results in, and it's really bad. A second term will be a disaster, probably even worse than the 1st one. Anyone with half a brain might not be super excited about Kamala, but she appears to be sane and reasonably competent, and when compared to the alternative, that's really good enough.