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Well, the last hope of progressives, Sen. John Edwards, is out of the race. I guess it's time for me to admit that the progressive view doesn't hold sway in America at this moment. That's unfortunate because I don't believe we have a single problem that progressive ideas can't address successfully. I also don't believe that the American public would reject progressivism if it were given an equal chance to access with the centrist and right-wing views with which corpstream America is in bed.
But so be it. The media have spoken and so it is.
I'm now reduced to voting for my third choice, Sen. Barack Obama. I do this with only a modest amount of enthusiasm. (That's OK; my wife has enough enthusiasm about his candidacy for both of us.) I'm not going to contribute to his campaign. I'm not going to work for his candidacy. But I will vote for him today when I send in my mail ballot. He gets my vote for two primary reasons.
First, his positive messages of hope and vision are more psychically in tune with my basic philosophy of life. Even if he lacks experience, I think he displays the correct point of view from which he's more likely to seek and find positive solutions to problems than is Billary.
Second, he is more flexible and malleable than Sen. Clinton. She's stuck in her old ways, which are not sufficiently different from those of Republicans of the same era to effect the bedrock change we need if we're going to recover from eight years of the all-time worst leadership in our nation's history and make useful progress against the war in Iraq and global warming.
In summary, I guess, I think Obama is more likely to listen and to pay attention to progressive ideas and voices than is Clinton.
But I sure wish I didn't have to choose between these two.
I am now truly soured on the American political process.
