i just had a thought about america and now i’m writing it down

autostraddle:

we were talking about how newt gingrich is so like WHAT THE FUCK, the fact that he’s got any support at all, the fact that he’s even a contendor in this circus that has cycled through one bizarre contender after another. i think people are looking for a cult because everything is hard and you want someone to come in and be magical. when everything you see is sad, you have to make room for things you can’t see, like G-d, if you’re gonna keep your head up and eyes open. I think you start to want magic. like i think i voted for obama because i thought he was the closest thing to magic i’d ever seen vying for that position. but magic isn’t real! but then when i think about newt gingrich having actual support, i realize that like can you imagine his equivalent on our side? he’s making big promises, like abortion and health care are over on day one, he promises. can you imagine a parade of dem candidates who promised to legalize same-sex marriage on his or her first day in office? I mean, CAN YOU? because that’s abortion to the people on the other side. can you imagine if our guy was going FAR LEFT? They’re willing to go far right but not one fucking human being will stand up and actually defend all the things that human being believes in, like that corporations aren’t people. That’s why I voted for Obama, and I’ll vote for him again because even if he isn’t magic, I still believe he could be magic, and I can’t say that about anyone else on the ballot.

i know i’m gonna get shit for saying this, but whatever, i’m saying it b/c without being honest we’ll never get to the bottom of anything, ever, and that’s part of what’s holding us back. It’s just that I don’t know if we lack those far-left dramatics because we’re too compassionate, too wimpy or — BEAR WITH ME HERE — if it’s because we have less idiots. I mean most Republicans are smart, but I feel like we have less idiots on our side so maybe it’s more difficult to pull one over on a lot of us like they do to their voters. or maybe there are candidates that see things as complicated as they actually are, not the reductive blanket statements that bedrock a Republican presidential race.

is that the problem? the fatal flaw? or is that reductive or unfair? and if you think it is, are you saying that because you believe it, or because you think the question itself is unfair? That judging in and of itself is unfair? That could be our fatal flaw.

these are real questions, not answers, these are thoughts not facts, i’m not married to any of it. it’s just what i was thinking and i wonder what you think, too?

“That’s why I voted for Obama, and I’ll vote for him again because even if he isn’t magic, I still believe he could be magic, and I can’t say that about anyone else on the ballot.” THIS.