Victory Dirge

John Selleck (1967)

I can’t have anything nice apparently.  Voter turnout in New Hampshire on Tuesday surpassed 2016, so based on the disappointing amount of daylight between the winner and the runner up at the end of the night, it does seem like Boot-edge-edge crept up on Bernie.  Is polling a useful thing anymore?  Where were all these people who told pollsters they intended to vote for Bernie to that point.  Did they watch some more MSNBC in the interim and waffle at the last minute?  I think it’s true, too many "demoncraps" are thinking, “Hey, I like 'em all! You pick and I’ll show up in November to defeat Trump!”  That strategy could work I guess.  I’m struggling with the thought that people aren’t exactly getting the urgency this year.  Have you heard of a little thing called global warming?  Are you aware that there are great and widening disparities of wealth and income in this society?   Have you noticed people struggling day to day while Mike Bloomberg on his own dime saturates your tv and your youtube sessions with propaganda designed to seduce you into substituting him for Donald Trump?  I guess there’s some pucker left in the American kisser for the ass of capitalism yet.  ^_^  (don’t quote me)

I wish I was happier.  I have bursts of resolve that occasionally plummet to disappointment and despair.  Why can’t I just be happy Bernie won.

Imagine how I’d be if he hadn’t won!  For a few too many minutes Tuesday night watching the margin of victory shrink I was imagining the spring I'd see today in an openly Pete supporting colleague's* step if B-E-E stealth stole it from Bernie deep into the night.  2016 all over again.  In fact, he’s so far pulling a Donald Trump on the primaries.  Are you Pete supporters happy with how he's accumulated delegates so far in Iowa and New Hampshire?  (Why yes they are.)

I’ll be better.  I just need a few moments.

The one consolation of Tuesday (aside from the fact that Bernie won for fuck sake!!) is that now Pete will have to face Bloomberg and black voters like everybody else.  Bloomberg coming up fast.   Has mini-Donald bought the election yet?

Is revolution possible at the ballot box?  Shouldn’t it be?  They will pay people to keep it from happening,  to do their bidding for them and to defeat us.  They own the channels of persuasion and dissuasion.  They have suppression and spin and media saturation.  We have our bodies.  We have each other.  We have to motivate ourselves to show up.  For ourselves.  For each other.  For those who won't come. For those who can't.

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* A very decent sort but a decided member of the Professional Managerial Class. Of course he’s the only colleague whose candidate I know. There’s a telling obliviousness to the way he drops Pete into silences around the conference table. He seems to think, These are smart people of good taste.  Of course everyone’s for Pete!