Priorities, right?

I was a Warren fan. Still am. I’m also still disappointed of her erasure from the process. I still believe, hands down, she is the best of that bunch to get us out of this as quickly and painlessly as possible. A Warren/Booker ticket was my idea of heaven. Warren’s practicality and fearlessness of big money matched with Booker’s “hey y’all let’s not be such constant douchebags for a while. It’s not working. Let’s love and respect ourselves, each other, and our country as much as we seem to love being assholes to the other half of the country” seems like a good innocculation for much of what ails us and therefore swing the pendulum of extremes back towards cohesion.

Unfortunately, not enough people agreed with me. That’s life. My disappointment over that doesn’t matter.

Biden/Harris have a platform. They’re refining it. It’s not all what I wanted to see and not enough of what I wanted to see. But that doesn’t matter either, it’s a draft. All platforms are drafts. They will be edited the whole process through according to what can be pushed through.

I’m voting for Biden/Harris. Not because I’m getting in line like a good little Democrat. I’m not even a Democrat. I’m Independent. Not because I think his presidency will magically fix things and things will go back to normal. I don’t want to go back to normal. I’m still disappointed Warren wasn’t chosen. I still think that would have been best.

I’m voting the Democrat ticket all the way down from here on out for a while. That’s a first for me. It’s not even a choice between Biden/Harris and Trump/Pence so much as it is a choice between whether or not I think the experiment is worth continuing or take a chance on what will come next.

So that’s my vote. And that’s my choice. Because that’s what the choices boil down to. It is what it is.

What’s yours? If you believe as I do that Democracy is worth continuing then your course of action is clear. Nothing else matters right now. So why continue beating that drum?