before i begin please know, that NO MATTER WHO wins our nod.. be it sanders, be it bloomberg, be it gabbard.. they will get my support, my time, my money, and my vote.
sorry.. but I just have to rant.
what the fuck is wrong with us democrats? we really have to fall in love, eh?
we had/have a few of the most qualified, serious, policy-driven candidates in the race for the nomination and both seem out of contention.
warren and harris.
how did we fuck this up? please dear godz let me be wrong.. let me be venting without merit, without understanding… let me rant but let us win.. even if it is bloomberg. but i can't wrap my head around whats going on.. and for fuck sake i’m trying.
my party.. OUR party couldn't recognize the undeniable energy around sanders four years ago, and i will to this day believe we dropped the ball.. big time. ive now spent three years realizing that had bernie been up against scumpigtrump in 2016 bernie would've won. .. but thats water under the bridge, right? i supported sanders in the primary and then, like many of us here, busted my ass trying to get hillary elected. money, time, effort… i couldn't keep track, i was all-in. anyway we know what happened.
this time i thought.. we’re not gonna blow it! we can’t! there’s too much at stake, right? and while we haven't blown it yet..and i’m still gonna do everything short of jumping off a bridge to make sure whomever wins our nod gets in the white house.. but i need to say, im terrified as im watching some of our strongest candidates slip or already slipped away. we need policy solutions. we need strong smart ideas. we need a woman to lead this mess of a country back to sanity.
sorry if it sounds simplistic, but i’m just tired and beat down from men running the show. i would've donated a lung to see harris … a kidney and a lung to see warren. but somehow we can't see who we need.. we can't recognize who has the ability to fix shit. bernie will forever be one of the first politicians i fell madly in love with.. not because he's a hottie .. lol.. but because he really wants to make things better. and lets face facts, his “healthcare for all as a human right” has pushed our party in the right (meaning liberal) direction. same goes for his rhetoric on education. almost our entire caucus is on board with some form of medicare-for-all (if you want it.. sigh) as well as expanding public education to include basic college-level education. we know as a party we can't go much longer without expanding these things.. and not only because we care … but because we need to keep up with the rest of the industrialized world to keep up.
harris was/is a fighter.. and would've taken the orange pig apart bit by bit, just like she did kavanaugh (drunken rapist jerk-off) .. i’d give anything to see harris go head to head with scump.. she would've had his lunch.
warren has some of the strongest, best ideas and actual plans to move us forward that ive seen in my short life (mid-forties here) … who of us couldn't see how crazy stupid smart she is?? imo warren has the knowledge and ability to actually fix shit. like make the economy work for all of us. go back and listen to her speech at the roosevelt institute (thanks to meteor blades for sharing it years ago) sounding the alarms as the finance and banking industry worked methodically to hold us (the middle class) forever in their debt.
i’m tired.. oral surgery yesterday has left me exhausted and somewhat doped up, but im also worried and angry and confused. sure i like pete.. (im gay, btw) and i’ll always adore bernie, but am i the only one who thinks we are missing the mark? am i the only one who thinks that warren and harris should be battling for the top spot?
maybe im a naive (approaching) middle-aged gay man who doesn't know shit. and no matter what i will support our nominee, regardless of who it is, but i gotta say, i desperately want a woman to run the show. us guys have fucked up for long enough.
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