Episode 290: (Non-)Bothered Democrats / Cuomo v God

Many Democrats are bothered by the fact that their presumptive nominee for President is the old, white male that they have said only Republicans elect. But if you break that number down by race, you may be surprised by what you find. (Or not.)

Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state of New York, is pretty confident that the people have brought down the number of COVID-19 infections, and that God had no part in that. Interesting to hear coming from a Roman Catholic.

And a listener gives her thoughts about what she misses, is thankful for, and is sick and tired of during this pandemic.

Mentioned links:

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Show transcript

On the Facebook page for Consider This, I still have a pinned post that’s there for you to write what you’ve learned or enjoyed or missed or lost during this time of the pandemic. It’s there for you to let us know how this bit of insanity is affecting you.

Listener Barb put a comment on there recently, and there are some things she’s missing, and some things she’s thankful for. “I’ve missed the freedom to go out and run simple errands.  When you’re single and don’t have pets, it’s lonely and tough not to have normal human interaction.  Heck – I’ll take a hug at this point.  I am getting lots of old projects done, but it’s different when you have to do them because you can’t really do anything else vs. you want to do them.  I feel for the small businesses who may not survive and the people who can’t work.  I am very blessed to be able to afford to pay my bills, eat, and keep a shelter over my head!”

That’s absolutely true. Among all the things we may be missing are all the things we can be thankful for, because for everything that we’re thankful for, someone else may very well be missing it. Who’d have thought that we’d have cars lined up for miles to get something from a food bank? The unemployment that has come from the lockdown has hit many families hard. Don’t take what you have for granted, no matter how small it may seem to you.

Barb also has some things she could do without. “I also want to say that I’m sick and tired of all the political posturing regardless of the side of the aisle.  After 9/11, everyone really came together for a long period of time.  Today – not so much.  It’s very irritating.” As my Dad would have said, “Amen to that, sister.”

Getting back to politics, one of the things that I’ve had a good chuckle about is how the Democrats have painted themselves as the party of diversity, and yet their presumptive candidate for President is the old, white guy they keep complaining about. For all the diversity that their candidate pool had to choose from, they skipped over all of that. Who knew that the Democrats were so sexist and racist and homophobic? Well, choosing Biden doesn’t actually mean that, but that’s what they would say about Republicans doing the same thing. I’m just holding them to their own standard.

So here’s a question; are Democrats bothered by the fact that their candidate will be old and white and male? Well it turn out that Pew Research asked that very question. Overall, 41% of Democrats said yes, it does bother them. If you split this out by men and women, you still get 41% who are bothered by it. But when you break it down by race, you get some stats that long-time listeners to this podcast won’t be surprised by.

Among whites, 49% said they were bothered.