The Way You Used to Do

[tracker7]

Primary elections today. Most races are already won or lost, so I did what I tend to in primaries - voted for the most progressive candidate. This was a first for me, to the best of my memory. Every candidate I voted for is Black.

I don't feel good about this coming November. My district is solidly blue, but it's a tiny island surrounded by a deep red sea. If the Repugs don't win fairly (and I think they will), then they're going to cheat and then the very best thing we can hope for is a couple of years of nothing getting done. I don't want to dwell on the worse outcomes.

Denis Detwiler wrote this week that there's going to come a day in the US when the shootings start, and just don't stop this time. I think he's right. We're in real trouble, and I don't know that it's going to get turned around. Around, hell, I don't know if it can be turned away.

After no real debate, I bought a Sunday badge for GenCon. If I go, I'll have a good day trip, and if I don't go, I'm out $16 and I should be able to handle that.

Comments

[atolnon]

I have a pretty detailed analysis of this - or I did, anyhow - that I think is mostly correct and I don't think it's too off from other relatively well judged reasonings. The big problem I see is that, in the past, many people assumed that the state would retain a set of internal coherence. That, for all its faults, the people steering that ship are competent if not moral. Except, increasingly that doesn't look like the case and a federal state that flips to strongly held Republican is a very bad, but increasingly likely outcome.