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kyburgHRC was my second choice. I didn’t get my first.
My college degree is in mass communications, popular culture. I got it after being immersed studying violence on television, first-hand accounts of atrocities during WWIi (and after) - because when I was 12, nobody was discussing Manzanar (and why not), Solzhenitsyn was still relevant, and why would they send my older brother to Vietnam? You can’t break a pencil in half, but we can kill (and turn a blind eye to) thousands. Really?
When Watergate broke, it was the ultimate betrayal. Nothing before or since really compares, but the complexion of politics in the United States has tipped towards outrage culture ever since. If you want to believe - and exhort others to believe - that any political figure is corrupt, it’s EASY. Just look back. Whether it is actually true, supportable or not - you can libel, slander, question, deride, degrade, dismiss all you like. Look hard enough. Talk to the Right Person - you’ll find it.
The truth is so hard to see for the smoke.
To me, the biggest danger posed by Trump is the amount of denial of what is happening right in front of the RNC supporters. If I heard “he’ll change once elected” one more time, I might ask what they expect him to change into. A nice leisure suit, perhaps?
Yeah, I remember Bill Clinton. I remember Al Gore, too. I remember tons of energy, money and political capital squandered to keep inquiries, one after another in the pipeline.
Hey, obstructionism works. Denial of Service attacks, we’re all familiar with.
I won’t say I’m impressed, but I have to accept that as hard as they look, they can’t paste anything on HRC that has stuck. Stuck means conviction, BTW. (Wasserman-Shultz, different story. Her time is coming.) I resent the smarmy attitude that HRC ‘deserves’ this. It’s intended to make one angry - but all I smell is bait, and I refuse to take it anymore.
People stood in my living room in 2008 and said she was going to be our next Democratic president. Against the energetic, thoughtful and charismatic Barack Obama, she couldn’t win. Bernie Sanders started his campaign late, after repeatedly saying he didn’t want to run. God, he was amazing and it almost happened - but I’d listen to the man at this point. He predates Watergate, peeps.
We don’t get a redo on the primary - much as I am sure the RNC wants to as well. Remember, I *am* Green, and have been since 1992. Jill Stein is as bugnuts as Ralph Nader - and better served downticket where she can do some good. When there is a viable Green Party candidate for President, I’ll be the first person to start shouting.
I remember Al Gore.
I remember George W. bringing the SCOTUS back into session to weigh in on Teri Schiavo. Just, her. Healthcare to make that decision possible for others? *crickets*
I remember how the world came together to support us after 9/11 (including most of the Middle East) and how that support was squandered in the political polarization necessary to support invading Iraq.
I am fully aware of the costs of that war. We’re importing food from China, and exporting our jobs there. College, to prepare for viable employment, is only affordable if you already have $100K incomes with no expenses. We enable the acquisition of wealth by exploiting cheap labor abroad, but ignore the cost of living at home and tell Americans they’re not worth their pay.
We are ignoring the reality of climate change.
The biggest failure of Barack Obama was being a person of color who never did anything that allowed an investigation, successfully turning around an economy that was headed for termination in 2008. Not recession, not depression. GONE.
The biggest failure of HRC is that nobody found her guilty when they did investigate.
I *want* a healthier RNC. I want the current crop of hatred to burn itself out and be turned away. Conservative thought has real value in this world, but I haven’t seen any for decades now. (I’ve seen a ton of “On My Side,” though. Refrain, I beg you. That way lies madness.)
If there was one lesson from 9/11 is that it was that we are better together. Look for the uniters, not the dividers.
I want Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker in 2020. I want a chance at that, and electing a fascist won’t do it.
I remember Golda Meier. I remember Margaret Thatcher.
I am so disappointed this election is even getting as close as it is.
But I am not going to give Trump a damn thing. And it’s not an attack to ask why anyone would.
See you at the polls in November.
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My college degree is in mass communications, popular culture. I got it after being immersed studying violence on television, first-hand accounts of atrocities during WWIi (and after) - because when I was 12, nobody was discussing Manzanar (and why not), Solzhenitsyn was still relevant, and why would they send my older brother to Vietnam? You can’t break a pencil in half, but we can kill (and turn a blind eye to) thousands. Really?
When Watergate broke, it was the ultimate betrayal. Nothing before or since really compares, but the complexion of politics in the United States has tipped towards outrage culture ever since. If you want to believe - and exhort others to believe - that any political figure is corrupt, it’s EASY. Just look back. Whether it is actually true, supportable or not - you can libel, slander, question, deride, degrade, dismiss all you like. Look hard enough. Talk to the Right Person - you’ll find it.
The truth is so hard to see for the smoke.
To me, the biggest danger posed by Trump is the amount of denial of what is happening right in front of the RNC supporters. If I heard “he’ll change once elected” one more time, I might ask what they expect him to change into. A nice leisure suit, perhaps?
Yeah, I remember Bill Clinton. I remember Al Gore, too. I remember tons of energy, money and political capital squandered to keep inquiries, one after another in the pipeline.
Hey, obstructionism works. Denial of Service attacks, we’re all familiar with.
I won’t say I’m impressed, but I have to accept that as hard as they look, they can’t paste anything on HRC that has stuck. Stuck means conviction, BTW. (Wasserman-Shultz, different story. Her time is coming.) I resent the smarmy attitude that HRC ‘deserves’ this. It’s intended to make one angry - but all I smell is bait, and I refuse to take it anymore.
People stood in my living room in 2008 and said she was going to be our next Democratic president. Against the energetic, thoughtful and charismatic Barack Obama, she couldn’t win. Bernie Sanders started his campaign late, after repeatedly saying he didn’t want to run. God, he was amazing and it almost happened - but I’d listen to the man at this point. He predates Watergate, peeps.
We don’t get a redo on the primary - much as I am sure the RNC wants to as well. Remember, I *am* Green, and have been since 1992. Jill Stein is as bugnuts as Ralph Nader - and better served downticket where she can do some good. When there is a viable Green Party candidate for President, I’ll be the first person to start shouting.
I remember Al Gore.
I remember George W. bringing the SCOTUS back into session to weigh in on Teri Schiavo. Just, her. Healthcare to make that decision possible for others? *crickets*
I remember how the world came together to support us after 9/11 (including most of the Middle East) and how that support was squandered in the political polarization necessary to support invading Iraq.
I am fully aware of the costs of that war. We’re importing food from China, and exporting our jobs there. College, to prepare for viable employment, is only affordable if you already have $100K incomes with no expenses. We enable the acquisition of wealth by exploiting cheap labor abroad, but ignore the cost of living at home and tell Americans they’re not worth their pay.
We are ignoring the reality of climate change.
The biggest failure of Barack Obama was being a person of color who never did anything that allowed an investigation, successfully turning around an economy that was headed for termination in 2008. Not recession, not depression. GONE.
The biggest failure of HRC is that nobody found her guilty when they did investigate.
I *want* a healthier RNC. I want the current crop of hatred to burn itself out and be turned away. Conservative thought has real value in this world, but I haven’t seen any for decades now. (I’ve seen a ton of “On My Side,” though. Refrain, I beg you. That way lies madness.)
If there was one lesson from 9/11 is that it was that we are better together. Look for the uniters, not the dividers.
I want Elizabeth Warren and Corey Booker in 2020. I want a chance at that, and electing a fascist won’t do it.
I remember Golda Meier. I remember Margaret Thatcher.
I am so disappointed this election is even getting as close as it is.
But I am not going to give Trump a damn thing. And it’s not an attack to ask why anyone would.
See you at the polls in November.
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