Henry Kissinger once said of the Iran-Iraq War: "It's a pity they can't both lose."
Lately, I've been feeling this way about the election.
As I wrote before, I had been pessimistic about a Bernie Sanders victory all along, and that made it easy for me to bypass the outrage stage and go right to a cynical acceptance of Hillary's victory.
But I thought the DNC would at least try to make some show of appeasing the party's left wing with the Vice Presidential pick. (I really had my heart set on Elizabeth Warren).
That, plus the news about the leaked DNC e-mails, is making it really hard to work up the energy to support Hillary.
For a brief moment earlier this week, I caught myself hoping Hillary might actually lose, just because she deserves to lose. But then I remembered how awful Donald Trump is, and I came back to sanity.
Still...it's really a pity that they can't both lose.
Addendum:
By all rights I shouldn't be shocked or angry about any of this, because I totally predicted it way back in November, when I wrote:
There's no way that the Democratic Party Establishment is ever going to let Bernie Sanders get the nomination, and so Hillary's nomination is inevitable.
I didn't think the DNC would be caught this red-handed, but I guess it doesn't surprise me that those e-mails exist.
This is a first: for once I agree with "Kissinger".
ReplyDeleteI tell you what, this past week has really burned me up. And I was all set to hold my nose and support Hillary. I'd even resigned myself to that since last November.
ReplyDeleteBut the way Hillary just refuses to give the Left Wing anything is astounding. And then the DNC gets angry at the Bernie supporters, and calls them childish. They don't act like they have to earn the support of the Left, they are acting like they are entitled to the support of the Left. And if the Left doesn't just automatically give them their support, then they pour vitriol on the left and call them childish and unreasonable.
You NEVER see this kind of thing over on the Republican side. They act like they actually have to EARN the support of their base over on the Republicans.