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2. I don't care about a "perfect candidate"; I want someone who's not older than my retired parents
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 08:08 AM
Apr 2016

Somebody who doesn't send the left into conniptions trying to re-litigate the 1960s and finally prove the "other group" (be they accomodationists or rejectionists) wrong. I don't care. We've managed to find the two candidates who each bring out the absolute worst aspects of our party's coalition, and put them in the Octagon together, and it's depressing as shit.

I supported O'Malley when he was in; before that I supported Schweitzer when he was making noises about running. Neither are perfect, but they reach past the circular firing squad that Clinton and Sanders both seem to bring the left to.

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