Maybe it's because I'm no longer twenty, but I dread Trump
and/or Cruz infinitely more than I dwell on differences, significant as they
may be, between Clinton and Sanders.
For me, there clearly is a two-party system, the dividing
line being sanity.
I like Sanders and appreciate how much he's expanded the
parameters of debate — it's, at the very least, worth putting single payer
healthcare back into discussion — but, though I hesitate to say it, I can't
imagine a Senator from the fine but, politically speaking, irrelvant state of
Vermont — and a Jew, yet — winning a national election.
But maybe I should consider the limitations of my
imagination, since I frankly can't imagine a President Cruz, warmongering evangelical
fanatic, or a President Trump, warmongering billionaire crackpot, either. Either
of them would make the world much worse, real fast.
I can manage to imagine a President Clinton, a Democrat
following a Democrat, which last happened, as I've said before, when LBJ followed
an JFK. Yeah, I know LBJ blew this advantage, and the good he was doing,
besides, on the War in Vietnam.
Back to Hillary Clinton. Do I like the idea of her as president?
I'm far from wild about it. Do I think we can do better? Yes, I do, but not in 2016.
Let me step further out onto the admittedly attenuated limb
of my political imagination: if it comes to it, I hope Bernie will not
let himself become the 2016 equivalent of Ralph Nader, circa 2000.
He'll know better than that, won't he? He will, right?
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