Joe Biden and I both tested positive for Covid on Wednesday, July 17. For the next few days, I kept expecting the president to experience this as his turning point. The debacle of his televised debate loomed ever larger in my own mind. Would he finally see, with this further debility of the virus, that it was time for him to retire from the field of combat? Day after day, he didn’t.
On Sunday morning, I read in The New York Times that Biden was feeling resentment for Barack Obama and the Congressional leaders who were urging him to withdraw—and I felt a flash of anger. This was more than hubris; it was delusion—yet one more sign that Biden could not succeed in a campaign against the Big Orange Felon. Here was the most important presidential campaign of my lifetime, and the candidate and President I had supported with all my heart for five years was showing himself not even able to assess the fight.
Fortunately, within an hour of that juncture, Biden had made his momentous and strategic retreat.
I was thrilled. I am thrilled. I am rallying behind Kamala Harris, whom I have always liked, always supported. As the friend-of-a-friend pointed out, Kamala is a Black Indian, and she’s married to a Jew. Given my personal background, you couldn’t get any better than that!
A friend of mine says that there is a moment in the classic Indian scripture, The Mahabharata, when the world is in danger and women are sent into the breach to save things. I just now spent some time looking for such an instance, and I cannot uncover it. The story may exist, you understand, but I can’t attest to it right now. What I know for certain is that at a time when the demon Mahishasura was a threat to the universe, the gods—all males—were powerless to stop him and created Goddess Durga to defeat the demon. The story is told in the Shrimad Devi Bhagavatam. Goddess Durga took form specifically for this battle and—using the weapons of the gods—this female deity defeated the monster definitively, as the male celestials had been unable to do.
Yes, this is legend.
Yes, this is metaphor.
Yes, it may be wishful thinking, but I have given money to Kamala Harris’ campaign, and I will be writing postcards to Democratic voters in certain battleground states to encourage them to cast their ballots. I’m not much younger than Joe Biden, and there is only so much I can do right now. (Like him, I still have Covid.)
Yet I think it’s time for all of us to bring forward whatever we can to support our chosen goddess to defeat this demon. As Kamala’s campaign says, “Let’s Win This!”
Right on!
Love it.
Get well!
When Biden opposed Trump the first time, an inner message told me that he had the Virgin Mary on his side and she was bringing the light. And then he won. Now Kamala Devi has taken up the torch. I have such a good feeling about this.
kudos On target.
I love this! Thanks you for revealing that Kamala IS the Devi Durga! She emits so much light. She is brilliant, bold, and authentic. It’s her time and I will be working canvassing for her campaign all September and October with a few days in August.
Such a great legend! Thanks for telling about the Goddess Durga and Kamala. I will enjoy sharing this with others.
I hope that by now you have recovered and back to good health!
Thank you, Peggy, for your graceful return. We need you. On Sunday, before anything transpired that day, I began spontaneously chanting Kali Durge to myself out loud, to my wife in her hospital facility, and to anyone within earshot. Now, I can reason why. Get well soon with love and respect.