Final thoughts on election results
I promise this is it, no more politics after this post (ok total lie, but at least not for a little while, or at least not about the election).
It is getting harder friends. It is is getting harder to support, harder to vote for, harder to stomach candidates who consistently disappoint, candidates who make a great show of their liberal ideals and then hightail it to the center once they are elected, or worse candidates who never pretend to be anything but centrists, but remain the only viable option. Basically I continually find myself voting for a party that doesn't really reflect my values (and screw whoever made "values" a conservative term, as if my belief that we should spend $10 dollars on public education for every penny spent on "defense" is not a value, as if my belief that the "success" or "greatness" of our society can only be measured by the wellbeing of the members in it who have the least and that by such a measure we can lay claim to neither success nor greatness, is not a value).
But I digress, my point is that I think the entrenchment of the two party system is a cancer to a more representative democratic process. I look ahead to the 2016 election and I am disheartened. Of course I am thrilled at the prospect of the first woman President, but it is hard to be thrilled at the prospect of Hillary Clinton. She has many fine attributes, but she is either too centrist for me, or worse, as I suspect, unwilling to voice what she actually believes for fear she will loose. Give me a candidate who will speak their truth, their beliefs, and risk loosing and I will get excited. Give me another Shirley Chisholm and I'll drop everything I'm doing and work for her full time. You might say politics is not an arena where such truth telling is possible, I choose to believe otherwise, another one of my naively optimistic "values". I will close with Aaron Sorkin (how else?) who through Bruno makes a similar point...
