I apologize for my country, and I advise you (for what my advice is worth) to really bring pressure to bear on your leaders cause they are going to get some serious arm-twisting now that the corporatists have no losing hand possible in the US. Once in 30 yrs we had the conditions and the candidate that would have made real change possible and we threw it away for an empty suit and another Clinton-and that is IF they can beat the republicans when they get the smear machine ramped up good and proper.
Enough of this I'm off to some European topic-Train blogging, one of my favorites.
Hello everybody, hope you are all well, I've been throwing time and money into the primary rathole over here, but I think I'm awake now. "I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
And then I could have voted for him myself, in California's primary next week. How I long to vote for a Democrat I actually like--for anyone I actually want to vote for--in a California primary! But it doesn't seem to be possible, for "strategic political reasons," for this to happen, no matter how early they schedule the California primary. And thus I am always, effectively, disenfranchised.
And only the voters can change that ... the candidates can only work with the electoral terrain that we offer them. Utsukushikereba sore de ii
How I long to vote for a Democrat I actually like--for anyone I actually want to vote for--in a California primary!
Sadly true- my feelings also- and a perfect illustration of how broken the candidate selection and nominating process really is.
Equally sadly, the process of selecting a candidate lineup in Europe --at least in France- seems equally broken. Look who hands his hands on the wheel. "There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.
