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With the midterms looming, I am stressed. But not only because of the potentially enormous consequences of a red wave – which I actually don’t think is a foregone conclusion, but that’s another segment. I’m stressed because Biden is almost certainly shooting for a second term, and…I’m so conflicted.
I don’t think Biden is a bad president. I don’t think he will necessarily lose to Trump, or Desantis, or whatever cretin crawls out of the RNC. I do think that we needed Biden to heal our country in the wake of Trump’s fascism, but I don’t know that he’s what we need for the country to move forward.
This is a tough realization to come to, but the more I read, the more I learn, the more I’m seeing just how much we missed the boat with a Bernie Sanders presidency – and just how desperately we need someone like him to enact real change during an ever-narrowing window in which change feels like it may still be a possibility.
The Republicans are in bed with big pharma, with the NRA, with…I mean, the list goes on. And putting a Republican in power at this moment in time is asking for a future in which the rights of women and people of color are decimated, and which the power that’s already firmly in the hands of a small group of rich white men becomes even greater, if that’s possible. It’s terrifying.
But another Democratic president hand-picked by the DNC to carry out their specific agenda – which, I might remind you, is not divested from corporate interests at ALL – is scary, too. What Trump’s win showed us at its base level is just how disenfranchised Americans feel. They think their vote doesn’t matter.
They think what they want doesn’t matter – and what they overwhelmingly want is access to childcare, education, decreased military spending, access to abortion, and a number of other policies that the DNC generally views as leaning too far to the left.
What frightens me is that we’ve already seen the ability of the powerful to shut down those who want to return the country to the people – the DNC chose Hilary Clinton, and she became the candidate, with results that shocked many, but probably shouldn’t have, if we’d just been paying attention. 100 million people didn’t vote in the 2016 election, because they thought their vote didn’t matter. And they had good reason to think so.
We need a Sanders. We need an AOC. We need someone who will say “NO,” and it’s not only the RNC making it impossible for a person like that to come to power – it’s the DNC, too.
We need another party, one that isn’t beholden to the behind-the-scenes machinations of a self-invested few. I’m scared that we’ve already reached the point in time where the people we really need running our country aren’t even going to have the appearance of an opportunity.
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