Democratic Primaries
Showing Original Post only (View all)Let Me Be Blunt. [View all]
I mean, really. Please allow me to be blunt here on DU. I'll explain:
I'm 73 years old. There's a fair chance that this will be my last presidential election. I can't count on another one. I've been a Democrat all my life. I've supported and voted for every Democrat on the ballot since 1968, the first year I could legally vote. Even in 1960, I volunteered to help with JFK's campaign.
All those years, I've kept hoping that we'd finally figure it out and stop electing Republicans. I mean, it has been obvious throughout my life that we do well when Democrats are in power, and not well when Republicans are.
Sometimes, during my life in politics, Democrats won. Sometimes they did not. I mean Richard Fucking Milhous Nixon got elected while I was serving in the USAF. I even met him once at my console during a war games exercise. I loathed that man, but he was President, so I said, "Good Morning, Mr. President."
I'm hoping to go out of this world with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. That's my hope. That's what I've always hoped for, but have rarely had. Right now, we have a Republican moron in the White House and a Senate dominated by a wrinkled up old turtle who plans to block any progress as long as he holds his seat.
So, I'm pissed off. I'm angry that my last years on this planet could be spend under another Republican-run government. That's not something I want to see happen.
So, please let me be blunt. Because I'm planning to be. In the run-up to the 2020 election, you're going to see me making blunt, honest statements about politics. I've been involved in that stuff all my adult life. I think I've earned the right to be as blunt as I want in what might be my last presidential and congressional election. So, that's my plan.
I might say things you don't like, but that's just me being blunt. I might point out that something is bullshit while I'm being blunt. I might point out uncomfortable facts by being blunt. But, there it is. I don't have time for nuance any longer.
So, please bear with me. Let me be blunt.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden