Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Dem Debate
Watched the Dem debate tonight on CNN 'cause I'm a political junky.
(Otherwise, CNN hasn't been honest/watchable since 2016.) Apparently,
the Dems think that "voter suppression" is an issue that's going to win
the election in 2020. p.s. It's not. p.s.s. The girl "moderator" (in
heavy quotes) from the Des Moines Register was ridiculous --- back in
the '80s, Zappa astutely made fun of "Valley Girl speak"; today, CNN
lets dummies like Brianne Pfannenstiel moderate. p.s.s. In 2016, my
brother bet me $100 that Trump would lose. Anyone want that same bet in
2020? The Democrats have NOTHING.
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Trump coasting through the 2015 debates (and with an obviously planted answer on vaccines?!... academically correct but of no real consequence without intelligent follow through, plus all the problems with academic medicine) was an obvious indication of how broken our electoral system is. And the media in particular.
I was busy backing Bernie then (I grew up in the 90s reading Newsweek and fawning over the Clintons... but like I said, I grew up)... and was appalled that he couldn't manage to beat Hillary despite being more popular. So I was pulling for Trump in the general because... I had a pretty good idea what Hillary could do in power (she was pulling the strings during the Clinton years, then the Bush administration and ends up Secretary of State for Obama... which is a bit like being the President in Russia except without the oversight).
I preferred an incompetent President eroding the accumulated power in the Executive to the one who was instrumental in accumulating that power. And misusing it.
And now we find out that Bernie told Warren not to run because a woman "can't win"?! Hillary beat him... so what's that make Bernie Sanders? (I really hate to say it but, perhaps, a Jewish supremacist. I try to avoid bigotry, even when it's rational and seems appropriate. But he really seems to have made a show of collecting a bunch of cash then claims to be totally powerless to actually follow through on any of the things that people were giving him money for! It's like when he got endorsed by the NRA, won his first Congressional election and then said "what am I supposed to do, I vote Democrat?!" whenever they came around asking for help.)
But if you want to save yourself some grief, avoid the hole those people are trying to dig for your thinking. It's not *all* about just one single race. If you focus on the other races (particularly the ones you're eligible to vote in) then you can distinguish between national and state parties, plus the differences in priorities and positions between individual candidates and those organizations. Linking up groups whose mission you support with candidates who claim to value those goals (or should) allow the conversation to shift in a (potentially) more productive direction. And then at least you've had an impact.
Emailing the your whole city council is far more likely to get noticed than emailing the White House or a Presidential candidate... particularly if you're talking about campaign contributions or volunteer work!
Gabriel
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