It’s possible that I simply got a decent night’s sleep the night of the New Hampshire primary and just didn’t notice a giant space/time wormhole opening up and transporting me to Bizarro World. I had a few celebratory drinks over Sanders’s flat out incredible, 22 point victory that night. You know, the one you hafta go back to John F. Kennedy to find. So I coulda missed something.
Because every day that has followed has been just bug fuck nuts. Democrats are applauding and defending Henry Kissinger. Pointing out that John Lewis was incorrect about his statements regarding Clinton and Sanders during the Civil Rights Era is a brutal attack on a legend and hero. Democrats have been supportive of the DNC allowing lobbyist and PAC money to boost their struggling candidate. Takedown pieces on Sanders are good journalism, but any criticism of Clinton by simply fucking citing her record is a smear tactic used by interwebz bullies. And the Cubs are the pre-season favorite to win the World Series.
We’ve all seen some shit like this before, but not an all out assault of this level in over 40 years. The blatant fucking hypocrisy, scare tactics, the outright lies, the gender shaming coming from a feminist icon, the embrace of money as speech- it’s all so gawddamn crazy. And reminiscent of everything that led up to the 1968 Democratic Convention. And because we’re the stupid country, we’re letting it happen again.
The Clinton campaign is everything about politics that people just fucking hate. And because the game is so heavily rigged in her favor, she still might wind up the nominee. A nominee for Democrats who vacations with Henry Kissinger. Who unleashes surrogates to say anything, regardless of whether or not it’s true, to bully and shame women and people of color into voting for her. A nominee that will use every political dirty trick to get elected- vote count or will of the people be damned. And Democrats, regular, everyday Democrats, are happy about this. Go to any length to defend it. Gleefully repeat every lie, every allegation, every piece of shit flung in Bernie Sanders’s direction.
This is Bizarro World. We need this to end. We need to elect Bernie Sanders. One way or another, this darkness got to give.