Uninspired

I have nothing interesting to say tonight, I've tried, but all I got is the same old stuff, in the news, Sanders won in West Virginia today, which is pretty neat if ultimately irrelevant.

I think we are looking at Clinton/Trump in the general election, and while once that sounded like the best of all possible worlds, now it is just sort of a bummer, I mean, I don't want to listen to six more months of the Donald and Clinton just isn't terribly compelling of a speaker, nor does she inspire me with her politics, being somewhere to the right of Ronald Reagan on everything except women's rights.

The Republicans managed to make "liberal" a bad word during the Reagan era, and for some reason the Democrats bought into it wholesale, fleeing the left like it had the plague in an attempt to attract the moderates being left behind by the GOP as it went right to pick up the evangelicals and what would end up turning into the Tea Party of today.

That was a huge mistake and both the Democrats and the real left wing they abandoned have been paying the price since then, with the party rebranding itself as essentially a cut-rate GOP, it turns out that pretty much doesn't attract anyone, at least not in the Senate or Congress, wave election after wave election gives the GOP a comfortable majority in the off years, and the Democrat bases only gets their thumb out during presidential election years to try to push back, with varying success, I mean, say what you will about the GOP stealing the election in 2000, which is totally true, if the Dems were a party that could make people excited to go out for it wouldn't have come down to a few thousand people in Florida.

The party played it safe, and by doing so didn't actually appeal to anyone, not conservative enough for the conservatives, and completely ditching the liberal wing. Hillary Clinton is like the embodiment of that ideal, now I am not gonna get down on her too much I think she does believe in the policies she has talked about so far on the campaign, she holds her beliefs honestly and while she as changed on some things over the years, I don't really care about that, I don't want a candidate who doesn't learn and grow. I do however have a problem with like most of her policies that don't have to do with social issues, yes I believe she holds them honestly, I just can't find it in me to agree with her on things like trade, our use of military, and worker protections/income inequality issues. She very much is one of the people I talked about earlier, at the top and not really registering that those at the bottom properly exist and have needs that should be met, I am not saying she hates us, I am saying she doesn't really think about us at all.

Also, the love affair with Israel has got to end, they get up to some appalling shit and never really get challenged on it by the US, Clinton is unlikely at best to push for change in that area.

Of course, the US sets the standard for getting up to appalling shit, so it is hard for us to chastise our allies for doing the same, but again, I don't see Clinton cutting the drone program back, or making any progress in the Middle East, but whatever.

Now I will still vote for her come November if I have to, because as unsatisfying as I find her as a candidate, Donald Trump literally might kill us all and that is just a little bit worse. The man literally has a white supremacist as one of his CA delegates, and that isn't an exaggeration, the campaign says it was a mistake, but I don't think mistakenly appointing a white supremacist to an influential position bodes well for the competence of an administration. The choice is incompetence or evil, and so far Trump appears to be taking a third path and choosing both.