Yesterday Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her campaign for the nomination for president of her party. In one sense it’s a shame. I probably would have voted for her when the late-arriving Illinois primary takes place on March 17. Illinois’s primaries are close primaries, by the way. In a statesmanlike move, she has endorsed Joe Biden for president.
Now the remaining candidates are Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. As I’ve said before, I will cast my vote for a Democrat.
IOW, you will cast a vote for either 1) a foggy-sounding politician who has financially exploited his public service position; 2) a rich , intemperate, impersonal oligarch; 3) a raving socialist who has never earned an honest working man’s paycheck: 4) a woman who rose to power misrepresenting herself and her past
Only three of those are Democrats.
I was up early reading through a comment thread about Sanders on Reddit. Millennial’s and X-er’s. Common mention was to compare him to FDR. A savior who really cares for the downtrodden. They respect that he hasn’t changed his politics for 50 years, and fear that the country will be run by and for corporate owned pols from whichever party till enough older voters die off so they can elect leaders who will make the government more like what they suspect is enjoyed in Europe and Canada.
Just thought I’d throw that in.
Hah, hah, hah. That’s a good one. Now I’ll tell one.
They might want to check up on Canada’s demographics before they get too excited about emulating Canada. Canada is less than 15% black or brown (less than 3% black, less than 2% Hispanic, less than 5% American Indian, less than 5% South Asian). Maybe they think that’s unimportant but ethnic uniformity contributes to social cohesion. That’s what Canada has that we don’t. Social cohesion. Other than the dichotomy between Anglophones and Francophones and that’s interesting, too.
Another thing that Canadians have that we don’t: a predisposition for following the rules. I think that and social cohesion are interrelated.
Oh! I never said that they were right, they seem to feel that way is all. I’m starting to think, like my kids, they were raised by working parents, but unlike myself, raised on a small farm, my kids never saw my work first hand and can’t emulate it.
I especially believe they have no idea how hard it really is to do what I did or others did.
In the private sector, you have to earn it every day.