The word on Facebook is “It’s starting again!” Meaning the political carousel, see-saw, swing-set
and tilt-a-whirl. The carnival of
wanna-bes, have-beens and never-weres.
With a few real people thrown in to keep us off guard. The only REAL real people I’ve identified so
far are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.
Let the bashing begin.
I have come to expect an emergence of stupidity and
hate-filled rhetoric and even with my Facebook posters filtered since the last
election, more are emerging each day. I
will show restraint and choose my battles wisely.
My one major gripe, from the past two Presidential terms and
ongoing, is Democrats bashing each other.
If you think your party’s candidate is a jerk, that’s fine, but keep the
conversation quiet, between fellow Dems, not out there for all the world to
see. Let the tea-partiers, Republicans
and right-wing factions go on their merry way saying outrageous things. Let’s not only ACT like we get along, but
really try to approach consensus.
Example: If you think
Hillary’s only qualification is that she is a woman, keep that thought to
yourself. No one will be standing at gun
point telling you to vote for her—we’re Democrats, we don’t do that! We’re still ahead if women vote for her for
that reason alone! Women supported Sarah
Palin for that reason only (and thank your lucky stars that it was primarily
uneducated Republic women who did that!).
If Democratic women vote for Hillary for that reason, and it brings more
women to the polls, so be it. We will
just have to deal with having a Democrat in the White House for another four
years.
And PLEASE, if you do plan to vote Republican for whatever ridiculous
reason you come up with, I, for one, don’t want to hear that! Do you really think Republican strategists
don’t pay attention to what Democrats are saying to each other? Have you noticed that they are like birds of
prey, just waiting to swoop down and attack any weak Democratic animals they
can spy?
I hope the Democratic leadership comes up with a choice of
candidates for the Presidential primary; but more that, I hope to NOT see the
kind of bickering and ugliness that the last Senate race produced (at least on
Facebook) by Democrats. It doesn’t make
sense for the sharks to eat each other when the feeding frenzy begins. I long for reasonable, civilized discussion
with a reasonable effort towards proper grammar and spelling and the avoidance
of obscenities, degrading references to parentage and superfluous lies about
supposed criminal/sexual/lying/cheating behaviors. If you don’t know the truth, research before
you speak.
I know it’s naïve to expect anything to be different this
time around, but us liberal birds must flock together and keep the hope of
flying free!
