The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Like about 23% of my fellow Americans, I watched the Democratic debates the last couple of nights. More of us interested than I thought since I thought maybe me and a couple of news junkies and most of the lying media would be the only ones interested enough to tune in. The rest, I figured, would just wait for the Russian trolling ads to waft through their Facebook feeds.

Interesting group of wannabes is my take-away. A third were women, one was gay, a couple were various races, some were very young and plenty were very old. What you’d call, for lack of a better word, diverse. Latinos, blacks, gay, straight, women, old and young, a pretty full rainbow of Americans. Kind of gave me hope for a country that lately seems dominated by white old guys. White old farts, really, who seem pissed off they don’t see themselves reflected in the American mirror. After all, aren’t they the fairest of them all?

The Supreme Court pronounced yesterday that they aren’t going to weigh in on gerrymandering. Go right ahead and use an algorithm to insure the Party in power can keep that power. McConnell probably threw a champagne party. All I can say is Democracy is still a dog fight. Money still talks and bullshit walks, as my old buddy Snooky used to say. But I’m heartened to hear folks talking once again about the poor, about immigrants’ rights, about income inequality, about something more compassionate than protecting the middle class, which is wall that I heard the last bunch of elections.

I’m not going to handicap this election. I’m not even going to predict which one of these 20 people might be the candidate. But I think I’m going to like just about any one of them for standing up for the poor, the defenseless, the downtrodden and the forgotten. Hopefully we’ve moved past the time when the beleaguered white guy is to be protected and the rich need more tax relief. Folks and their spokesman Trump will say the Democrats have moved left, that they’re now Socialists. I say about damn time….

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