Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]planetc
(7,854 posts)When a real live Bloomberg person called me on my landline, I assured him cheerfully that if Mr. Bloomberg was the nominee, I would vote for him. I did not add that the caller had interrupted my daily prayers that Bloomberg would NOT be the nominee. I don't know whether the caller detected duplicity in my tone of voice, but he had no grounds to challenge me on.
A few moments ago, I had to declare myself undecided in order to reply to your post, but that was a lie. I decided long ago, and can hardly wait for the primary. But I would never declare my allegiance on DU: we keep getting caught up in these mares' nest of disagreement, and fuming and fussing, which exhaust us, and, I think, make some of us more cynical.
In fact, although I agree that The Russians Have Come!, I also think we don't need any real Russians to confuse and distract us. Basic human nature and a generally combative culture make it all too easy to create enemies, to bash the enemies we have created, and to generally take our eyes off the ball.
And we have one ball we should never take our eyes off of, which is whether our elections are being stolen. We can be as politically virtuous as we want, and vote, I hope, for a dynamite candidate, but if the election is stolen, we have wasted another four years. Elect Democratic governors, people, and tell them the election technology you want is a No 2 pencil.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided