Too, too many posts I've read on social media in support of Harris are ad hominem. Too, too many people are accusing anyone who wants anyone else to be considered to be anti-black, anti-woman, or of course both, as if a neutral evaluation of who's most capable of beating Donald Trump had to alight on Harris. That simply can't be known, though.

I think it's clear that there were no competitive primaries because Biden effectively controlled the discussion. I and I think most of who paid attention were too credulous in agreeing with that. But now, it seems the elected officials are hoping to repeat that with a new candidate.

We can all give thanks that President Biden withdrew as a candidate. I'm rather shocked, apparently never having matured out of polyannish tendencies, to think that Dems may make the same mistake again, that is, with a consensus of important officials selecting the nominee without an open competition with the input of ordinary Democratic voters. I'm glad Vice President Harris is willing to run. I hope others will, too - Pritzker and Whitmer, not Manchin or Marianne Williamson.

Too bad all the elected officials are endorsing, and almost none of them is calling for an open process. Doesn't it occur to people that not consulting their constituencies, ordinary Democratic voters, they are perpetuating an essentially anti-democratic process. C'mon Democrats!

So many people are saying unite behind Biden's decision to back Kamala Harris. Is that the correct judgment, the best way of beating Trump, the best candidate for our country. It smacks of the herd instinct that got Biden nominated without opposition. If that decision was wrong, which it was, it's wrong not to keep it open now. Of course, the first think Trump will say is that the elites did Biden in, but they're still running things, nominating Harris without a single vote.

Everyone's complaining about "the media" and "the elite". I do hope the Biden-Elite and its supporters do not dictate the choice of Harris - that we all step back to understand which of our many great potential Democratic candidates is willing to serve and who is most likely to beat Trump. Let's take time to have debates, interpret polls, and only then crowd-source the final decision to the many devoted Democrats who are the Biden delegates to our Democratic National Convention.

Please, please, PLEASE, Dear fellow Democrats who wanted Biden to continue: stop the paranoia and don't do what you accuse others of doing. Sober, devoted, honest Democrats of good will have different legitimate opinions and understandings. Explain if you still must why Democrats should have nominate a candidate that a large majority of Americans didn't want. But that candidate is no longer running. The priority is and has always been to defeat Trump, not to prove yourself right.

Regardless, although normalcy bias stops us from seeing and accepting it, the disaster has already happened. Biden cannot be re-elected. Plans for the transition have to be formulated, preferably last week or before. A Democrat can still be President next term. Go to it Jeffries, Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin, Warner, Sanders.

A thorough objective neurological evaluation of Biden is almost certain to find problems, which can then be the new reason for withdrawal. ("He's done a great job so far, but is retiring before we've found a problem.") The withdrawal announcement could cite the cognitive performance testing or any of the multiple dementia causes that can be objectively diagnosed with exams, blood tests, and brain images.

Biden claims he's had no neurological exam and no testing, which in itself indicates that his judgment is impaired. There's one obvious answer - and perhaps only one: for Biden to get a thorough neurological evaluation and then use the results to explain withdrawal from the race - with an apology for not having done it sooner. (No one will blame grandpa for not wanting to give up his keys.)