They are some horrid and disgusting people, but they understand policy.
He may be a serial pu$$y grabbing moron, thief, grifter, conman and worthless piece of amphibian shit, but he gives them judges and taxcuts for the wealthy.
He's a disgusting, putrid sack of festering boils in a cheap suit, but he'll fuck over minorities and voting rights.
It's why the Northam stuff is so fucked up.
I'm not a minority so I can never understand how this hurts and disgusts on a visceral level. I can't walk in those shoes.
But it makes me want to ask some questions.
Were Ralph Northam a raging racist, would he hide that by doing all he can to protect the voting rights of minorities? Would he fight to strengthen unions? Would he fight to expand Medicaid?
I think that is what frustrates me. There is nothing in his policies that gives the impression he's a flaming racist. In fact, his policies seem to reflect just the opposite.
Yet, we have a president who claims he's the "least racist person in the world", but his policies.... his actions...not 35 some years ago, but as recently as probably two minutes ago, show him to be a asshatted bigot.
Am I missing something?
Why do we do this to ourselves?
I'm going to say something here that might piss off some people.
The vast majority of people don't give a rats ass about the character of leaders. They care if their fucking policies are going to help, or harm.
Maybe I'm cynical, but I think we're chasing a version of America that only exists in a fantasy world.
With few exceptions, your neighbor who you invite over for the Sunday cookout would fuck you over without even a reach around if it benefitted him.
I would like my politicians to be decent and honest and moral people, but what is more important to me is that they will fucking fight for me.
I don't need purity for a politician to fight like hell to strengthen unions.
I don't need purity for a politician to fight like hell to protect reproductive rights.
I don't need purity for a politician to fight like hell to protect the voting franchise.
I don't need purity for a politician to fight like hell for the middle class, the working poor and the poor and to stop or fight the power of the 1%.
I don't need purity for a politician for them NOT to nominate pricks like Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the supreme Court.
I want a fighter who will fight for the right things and fight for the right policies.
Don't tell me what they said, show me what they've done.
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