So Crashing Vor issued a challenge: Write a diary, a positive one, about the candidate you oppose. Obviously, the Democratic candidate.
Well I have no candidate. My official position is “I’m waiting until November.” That won’t change as primary season cycles into my state either in April. This is a position where I shall not be moved. I have my many, many reasons; I shan’t go into them.
So I thought I’d briefly write about the positives I see with both our candidates.
Sanders
What can I say? This man has single handedly shaken up the Democratic Party in a way that it needed to be shaken. His proposals are bold in a time where no one really does bold anywhere, at least not in this country. We’re going to end up with a far more liberal party than we had before. We talk about pushing Overton Windows, well he’s pushed the damn window off a cliff. It didn’t need to be pushed. It needed to be fucking hurled, shattered, and rebuilt. He’s doing that. Especially about “socialism.” Grow up America, the Cold War’s over, we won, and his socialism is practically what we do anyway.
And I admire his answers about the America he thinks we should be. When I read his debate responses (as a rule—I read, I don’t watch), I find them intelligent. He’d do very well in the Oval, very well indeed.
CLINTON
This lady works damn hard. She wasn’t content to be on the sidelines in the 90s, and even though her effort failed then, did she let that stop her? Hell no. She kept going. She’s advocated for women and children for decades. In the Senate? Damn hard she worked. And she’s incredibly intelligent and tough to rattle. The House tried. They failed, spectacularly. That was the best day on Twitter, ever.
Bill? Well he’s a bit of a slut. That didn’t stop her. Decades of vicious attacks from the right didn’t stop her. She’s really tough—if me and her were trapped in an alley, beset upon by ninjas, I’d feel bad for the ninjas. She’d wipe the alley with them and keep right on truckin.
I will be happy to vote for either in November.