Democratic Primaries

Well, for some of us (definitely speaking for myself here), it's a matter of still nursing wounds from what happened in 2016. Those wounds remain pretty deep. ESPECIALLY when we think what could have been - watching history being made, being led by the first woman president - WHO GOT THE MOST VOTES!!!!!!

It's a difficult one to get over. And I fully admit that getting over it, in my case, is on me. It's my job, and my responsibility. I realize that. And I STILL have a hard time with how much Hillary had to deal with, through which Bernie was, in my view, mostly unhelpful, dragging out the inevitable WAY after its legitimate sell-by date, leading his poor hapless fans to hope in vain that somewhere, somehow, sometime that summer, there'd magically be loads of additional votes that would put him at or near the top by convention time. Anybody who was willing to look at the facts saw that there was no reason to hold out. He came around after the convention ended, and DID go out and campaign, but way too late in the game. And look what we wound up with! And she had to deal with Agent Orange, on top of all THAT.

And four years later, as we fight through another Presidential election year, that bitter taste comes back. It's awfully hard not stumbling into thinking what might have been.

I think I'll probably have to keep working on that one for the rest of my life. It REALLY hurt. It STILL hurts.

I can't/shouldn't/won't speak for anyone else here. Just myself - guilty as charged. And I HAVE to get over it at some point. I've often posted about making head-over-heart decisions, which is kind of a thing with me. Nursing all this particular stuff is my heart. And at the same time, my head is in there, yelling at me to stop being a schmuck and get over it.

And I'm trying to. I'm working on it.