My first diary, so please be gentle. I am a serial commentator, but I leave the art of writing diaries to other more talented people. Here we go:
I was so sure I’d be Bernie or bust, but for the first time in my life, the Republicans are really scaring me. I find none of what is happening on the other side amusing and I worry we will lose the general to one of these crackpots. No joke.
I’ve always voted Democratic for President, so that would have been a first as well, not only a protest, but a nice middle finger to the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party. Frankly, if Obama hadn’t fooled us so beautifully, it should have been him. Anyhoot.
Let me be clear, I can not stand Hillary Clinton, I think she is farrrr from a progressive, a conservative moderate at best and represents everything wrong with the Democratic Party. If this was any other year, there is no chance I would vote for her. None. I don’t believe a single word that comes out of her mouth, and she is the prototypical pandering, shape-shifting, money-enriching, warmongering mess that I so despise in politicians.
However I am reconsidering my position… for the aforementioned fucking scary Republicans. We are watching the saddest chapters of human history repeating themselves in our own freedom-lovin’, democratic country… and I just don’t want to believe it is happening again. But it is. So I’m leaning to voting for Hillary if I must, but I’m not quite there yet, because again, I don’t trust her for one fucking minute, and some of her supporters are really pissing me off.
Whatever I decide, it is mine and I will never be silenced. My choice, no matter what Kos decrees.
Thanks for reading.