We’ve gone quiet. In addition to regular lives to lead, I’m wondering if you guys are sharing a depressed lull. It feels like we’re watching the consolidation of HRC’s hold on the party get ugly and tedious. There’s nothing Sanders can say to stay in that doesn’t sound bitter, force him to inadequately condemn delegate behavior that may or may not be understood, and there are enough polls out there to make even the friendliest HRC supporter call anyone who isn’t voicing full-throated support for HRC a collaborator with the new fascist.
On a personal note, I don’t talk politics with hardly anyone anymore. There is only one reality in the new Democratic orthodoxy: we must beat Trump, that means supporting HRC, keep any other thought to yourself.
In at The End of The World 
Definitely a lull and figured you guys were feeling it too. But my Twitter feed allows me to see both sides in the Clinton-Sanders thing as ugly and tedious, to the point where I want to start unfollowing both. The nature of the “discussion” — and many of these debaters are nicely credentialed, bright people — has boiled down to virtually nothing but mutual presumptions of bad faith. Just terminally silly.
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Again with the phrases! “mutual presumptions of bad faith” – that’s it. I might have added “mutual presumptions of naivete/ignorance” but mutual presumptions with no allowance for them while pursuing clicks and followers and dopamine drips is dreadful and wearying. That all said, I was going to stop with the FB and go to the twitter for some sanity . . . not sounding like a good idea.
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FB, Twitter, it’s all insane. This is the first election where social media has played this role in my life, and I have to say it’s making me sick.
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As you know I haven’t been posting because of a personal matter. And yes we are in a period where politics is on hold. It’s trump v Clinton and it’s just waiting time until the conventions. Bernie is a side show but an important one as he pulls HRC to the left. But, making her president is likely the most important vote we will ever cast.
During the first hundred days of the New Deal, one of Roosevelt’s advisors said that if his program didn’t work he would be a one term president. Roosevelt responded that if his program didn’t work he would be the last president.
This is where we are now. Concepts like “democratic orthodoxy” are a luxury that we can’t afford. That doesn’t mean that we give up on a liberal agenda. The democrats are gonna win and win big. And so have to be ready with a governing platform.
But if HRC loses to trump then it’s the end of the Republic.
More later. But HRC really is in a uniquely historic position. She’s old and tired and her husband banged some unattractive women twenty five years ago, but she’s all we have left.
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This comment made me realize in one big blast how truly weird–anomalous–it is, what’s going on right now. Speechless.
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