After what happened in Buffalo, I don’t want to hear ‘vote blue no matter who’ again.
The democratic party doesn’t want unity. They just want the left to bend.
With everything going on and all the frustration associated with American politics, every once in a while it’s been not only welcome but necessary to see a small glimmer of hope. A little something that might restore the dwindling faith in electoral politics that seems to be getting us nowhere. In Buffalo we found it with India Walton, the first socialist in decades winning the democratic primary and primed to become the mayor.
Of course, the powers that be decided they would not have it.
After incumbent mayor Byron Brown lost the democratic primary to Walton, he immediately responded by launching a well organized write in campaign that he coordinated with the right wing, and spending — of course — massive amounts of money. A write in campaign that resulted in his re-election even though he lost the democratic primary, and India Walton losing.
I never, ever want to hear “vote blue no matter who” again.
Imagine if the roles were reversed.
Imagine if it was India Walton who had lost the primary against incumbent Byron Brown, and decided that she was not…
