Pleasing moments in American politics

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My current day-to-day life takes the form of muted worry: I attend to simple day-to-day tasks and relocation steps while hoping that all manner of moving pieces land squarely. Yesterday evening, it made for a nice change to find myself both smiling and laughing. I watched the speeches from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and, while I doubt that they will face anything but intransigent hypocrisy from a Republican Senate, I smiled to see the winning team happy and speaking against anger and division. Perhaps a little divisively, I also found myself laughing at the losing team making their press conference, in the car lot of a landscaping business, a paradigm of incompetence.