To you who bemoaned what a horrible candidate Clinton was and you know who you are. You dot get to cry that Trump i our president I’m not talking about your vote. As has been endlessly observed, your vote in many places (including here in CA) is a grain in a pile of rice. CA was never at (much) risk of going for Trump. I’m talking about the endless online/offline slagging of a fine candidate. “She’s a criminal, she’s dishonest, she’s a Wall Street WHORE, she’s a LIAR, she’s a terrible human being”. No, no, and no, no and no. You helped do the work of the right wing hate machine. You helped drag down a fine candidate as effectively (if not more effectively) than the reddest necked mouth-breathing racist Fox News troll. All this public handwringing about how you couldn’t bring yourself vote for the lesser of two evils merely because you’re afraid of Trump. Well guess what, dummy? It’s ALWAYS about the lesser of two evils. If you find a political race between pure good and pure evil, pinch yourself awake because it’s a dream. Being afraid of Trump was a FINE, FINE reason to vote for Clinton. I AM AFRAID OF TRUMP, The implication that there’s some moral scale of evil where Clinton is a 9 and Trump is a 10 is fucking appalling. There is no moral scale of evil in which Trump is even orders of magnitude close to Clinton. Maybe that’s the only scale on which Trump is a true billionaire.
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Look, I get that Hillary Clinton is the devil because she is part of the Democratic Party, and man, it’s the worst and did not even let Bernie win even though the Millennials voted for him and their votes should count more than seniors’ and blacks. Maybe Sanders could have won if he’d been nominated. Doubt it! But HE DIDN’T GET NOMINATED. Maybe Abraham Lincoln could have won if he were nominated. Or Michelle Obama. Maybe Ghandi. Beyonce. That musical Hamilton. My mail lady. That old shoe. THEY WEREN’T ON THE BALLOT EITHER. It was a binary choice, the lesser or the greater evil.
Oh, but maybe politics just needs a “shakeup!” from old establishment Obama! Maybe the system is so broken we needed this, like an oldsey timey tonic or a leeching. We have to confront the brokenness to fix it. Any history majors out there see the flaw in this logic? Let’s go full Godwin. Germany is now a much nicer place than it was before Hitler came to power. Maybe they just needed a few years of utter hell to break down the old corrupt system? How about the Cambodia? Just a wee breakdown, a restart if you will, a few years with Pol Pot to purge all the corruption?
Go shake your spite vote in the face of one of all the “Liberal Elites” who would have given anything to be able to vote, but couldn’t, because the political party that you helped hand the nation to on a silver platter made Goddamn sure they couldn’t. Tell them how you wasted your vote, demand they show you how grateful they are for it, and blame them for your actions. Next, go scrape a perfectly good steak into the garbage in front of a starving person, and tell them you simply had to throw it away, because it didn’t meet your standard of perfection. Make them tell you how grateful they are for the lesson in cutting your nose off to spite your face, and force them to take responsibility for making you do it. Then, go fuck yourself with your own shitty vote. ecause it’s not his fault that he’s a walking pile of human garbage, he’s upset because of economic insecurity and he can’t possibly be held responsible for his words or actions.
Still shaking your head primly and proclaiming your “hands are clean”? let me spell it out for you. If you helped drag down Clinton, if you bemoaned how terrible a candidate she was, how you struggled to decide whether to hold your nose and vote for her or reject her for being merely the lesser of two evils, congratulations. You helped defeat the lesser of two evils. Be proud of yourselves, own that. Ding dong the witch is dead. Nice job! You got half of your wish. You didn’t even have to sully your dainty white gloves voting for the lesser of two evils and on top of that you can always say “I told you so, we should have had Bernie”. Along the way you helped elect the greater of two evils, but that hardly matters, does it? Your purity is intact. Congratulations!
If it sounds like I’m more bitter about the betrayal from within than with the idiots who actually voted for Trump, it is because I am. I consider anyone who directly voted for Donald Trump for president to be beyond the reach of reason. But you? You knew better. I tried to tell you. And we lost. We now have to deal with the greater of two evils. I’m not going to be polite about it anymore. I really didn’t think this was possible, so why risk insulting your friends? Well it’s possible, it happened, and I want to kick your teeth in. Kiss Roe v Wade good bye. Kiss your weed card goodbye. Kiss any progressiveness for LGBTQ people goodbye. Kiss economic prosperity goodbye. Kiss any progress on racial divides goodbye. Health insurance? Nein, danke! Pipelines? YES PULEEZE! We probably won’t have a nuclear war? Progress on climate change? Yeah. Nope. Laughingstock. Of. The. World. Actually most of the rest of the world is probably too shocked and terrified to do much laughing. We just handed the nuclear trigger to someone with the self control of a toddler and the intelligence of a spoon. But you helped defeat the lesser of two evils! Good job! Be proud of yourself! Go you!
There are three justices still barely alive, approaching 80! The next justices are going to be younger and CRAZY CONSERVATIVE. AND GUESS WHAT MILLENIALS! They are going to be there now for easily the next 30 years, fucking your shit up; making sure anything you want is going to go to corporations instead of people! HOLY SHIT1!!1! Hillary was never t a fucking Wall Street shill. Somebody made that shit up! Did you hear Wall Street chanting “Lock her up?” Are you seeing the market soar because they know they’ve got a free ride for at least another two years?
Do you see people breaking down in tears because Trump ran a campaign on viciousness and demonizing people that don’t have the resources to fight back? Did you not pay attention in class to the history lessons about Hitler. Even in Fuckagoatville, Texas you learn that you don’t vote for the xenophobic racists (unless of course, you’re a xenophobic racist) because BAD SHIT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT.
Yet here it is, the moment history books, your grand dad, and Mrs Adams, said would be here. It would be up to you to look that monster in the face and say GO THE FUCK AWAY! And what did you do? You didn’t stand up to the bully. You didn’t think of your countrymen. You thought of your fucking self. And worst of all, you hid behind a shield, no, not even a shield. A fucking blanket. A goddamned nappy blanket, and screamed but she isn’t PERFECT! SHE ISN’T ECONOMICALLY PIOUS! SHE ISN’T COOL!
So you want to lecture me and other people who got off their asses to make a difference on how things should work according to you? You want to run a revolution when you can’t even win a political scrimmage You want to tell others how to do it, but your life is a fucking mess? You have no idea how to survive without help from someone else, but somehow it is ok to berate people who HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE for generations before you? You couldn’t even take a stand against fascism, racism, and renegade capitalism, when it mattered most, and could have done it with ZERO repercussions?
But yeah, sure, you’re the one who knows what needs to be done. Good luck on the revolution, you little revolutionary! Oh, wait, you don’t have any guns? Your revolution is … on Twitter? But you succeeded in taking down the worst criminal of all … Hillary Clinton? Oh honey. Thanks.
I’d say I will see you in Trump’s Gitmo, but let’s be real here. No I won’t. Worm tongue cowards never make a place in history.