Phoenix Rambles

I swear the U.S. two-party system is going to drive me up the fucking wall. Why does the most important election in this country always have to be held between two complete assholes and why do we accept the sabotage of any decent alternatives? On one hand, we have a loudmouth buffoon flirting with fascism and on the other, we have a senile jackass who will say anything to convince you that he'll be better than the other guy but keeps assuring his wall street buddies that he has no plans to change the status quo. So, worse case scenario, Trump gets another term and the slide towards fascism becomes a free fall. But in the best case scenario, whatever iota of positive change democrats actually pull off could be wiped away in 2024 because the material conditions that made people desperate enough to think voting for a fascist is okay won't actually be addressed.   But we HAVE to vote for Biden if we want to stop fascism, right? I mean, it's not like Trump could pull a Grover Cl...

When I was 19, I voted in my first election. After so many years of growing frustrated with Bush 2: Electric Boogaloo, I was proud to cast my vote for Barack Obama because I was tired of society validating the harm the Republican Party has done to the country for most of my lifetime. I was naive then, and I knew it. I was wary even then of trusting either party as I worked to discover my political identity. And while I flip-flopped on my party affiliation over the years, I worked out that I couldn't stand with bigotry, theocracy, or showing political favor to the rich over the rest of society. I voted for Obama because he promised change. Four years later, with almost no fundamental change to speak of, I voted for Obama again. I didn't do this because I believed the change he promised was being withheld through no fault of his own. I did so because I feared what would happen if we allow Mitt Romney to set back the progress Democrats made with the Affordable Care Act. But whil...