CNN doesn’t want Bernie to win. They come up with creative titles like ‘Biden Stops Bernie Juggernaut’ and Hillary Clinton says Bernie Would Not Be The Strongest Nominee’. I’ve yet to see much in the pro-Bernie camp from the organization, and while it is good they are not in the bag for Bernie it is bad they are in the bag against the man. It just feels like the news has a bias. We know about the Trump bias, and at times even understand the impulse to own that man, but carrying that energy forward into the next election means that we are moving closer to this just being how it is. I want the campaigns and the choice to be about the people and not about what media empire favors you. I guess I am just naive like that.
While we wait for the Super Tuesday results to roll in, I am hopeful that this set of polls stirs real clarity. Trump is a bad president, in my opinion. He’s not bad because of his (adopted) political affiliations. He is bad because he is not very smart yet is very swayed by praise. He’s a bully who has gotten his way most of his life, and that is totally fine so long as getting his way does not hurt people–and especially does not hurt me. However, it has. Our place in the world is diminished by this administration and we have looked more and more inward, sealing ourselves behind walls and expecting to create everything we need inside those walls and for those outside those walls to cater to us as though our global standing and value is more than what it is.
Honestly, if not for the Coronavirus I feel like we would have lost more global capital to China. As it stands they got stuck in a terrible situation. A deadly situation.
We are in a deadly situation as well, because in the wake of such things people tend to make grabs for power. How we respond under those circumstances impacts the functioning of our lonely planet, and I do not trust the responses of this particular commander in chief.
Some Thoughts:
- That all being said, I’m more mentally engaged in 10u football than in anything I said above. That’s just facts.
- I am also excited to spend some time in Tennessee. I just wrote a story about Memphis and here I am about to hit Nashville.
- About to hit Nashville days after a Tornado hit nearby. That too is a tragedy.