I have the post-primary pre-primary blahs.
Mar. 6th, 2020 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathywSo, I was Team Liz, 100%, all the way. I know *she was not perfect*, but she seemed to share my vision of what government was for: to assure that the benefits of living in a society reached everyone in it.
She's still on my ballot. I still might vote for her.
Meanwhile my brain has been torturing the "driving America off a cliff" metaphor a bit - the one where Trump is driving America off a cliff and a third of the passengers are cheering him on, either because they have crash suits or because they're willing to risk a broken leg if the people they don't like on the other side of the bus die. Out of the two remaining "viable" candidates...
- A lot of people like Joe's odds of steering the bus successfully because he sat next to the last driver who was any good and watched him. Joe seems to think he can work with Team Cliff, and doesn't seem to recognize that they've jammed a rock under the brake. His plan is to give the wheel a slight nudge to the left, which is likely to leave one wheel dangling over the edge and require a few people to be jettisoned for balance. He might listen to people telling him to turn the wheel just a little more, but it's not guaranteed.
- Bernie has driven a moped before, which is sort of almost kind of close enough? Bernie may or may not know the rock is under the brake, but he doesn't really care. He can just yank the wheel hard to the left and do a skid turn away from the cliff, and then we all get to drive off safely. For this to work out almost everyone needs to smush together on the left side of the bus. Almost everyone who believes he can actually do this without flipping the bus has already smushed, and he's working on a few people who are willing to chance it, but Team Cliff will not smush under any circumstances and they're busy telling everyone who will listen that Bernie *wants* to flip the bus, and a lot of the passengers believe that even if he doesn't outright *want* to flip the bus, he's not a good enough driver to avoid it. He does not like back-seat drivers; he is going to turn the wheel exactly the amount he thinks it needs to be turned.
I would like a driver who can steer away from the cliff firmly enough that nobody has to be thrown overboard but gently enough that nobody is worried about the bus flipping. I'm not getting one? so I think my best course of action is to work on getting the rock out from under the brake pedal.
She's still on my ballot. I still might vote for her.
Meanwhile my brain has been torturing the "driving America off a cliff" metaphor a bit - the one where Trump is driving America off a cliff and a third of the passengers are cheering him on, either because they have crash suits or because they're willing to risk a broken leg if the people they don't like on the other side of the bus die. Out of the two remaining "viable" candidates...
- A lot of people like Joe's odds of steering the bus successfully because he sat next to the last driver who was any good and watched him. Joe seems to think he can work with Team Cliff, and doesn't seem to recognize that they've jammed a rock under the brake. His plan is to give the wheel a slight nudge to the left, which is likely to leave one wheel dangling over the edge and require a few people to be jettisoned for balance. He might listen to people telling him to turn the wheel just a little more, but it's not guaranteed.
- Bernie has driven a moped before, which is sort of almost kind of close enough? Bernie may or may not know the rock is under the brake, but he doesn't really care. He can just yank the wheel hard to the left and do a skid turn away from the cliff, and then we all get to drive off safely. For this to work out almost everyone needs to smush together on the left side of the bus. Almost everyone who believes he can actually do this without flipping the bus has already smushed, and he's working on a few people who are willing to chance it, but Team Cliff will not smush under any circumstances and they're busy telling everyone who will listen that Bernie *wants* to flip the bus, and a lot of the passengers believe that even if he doesn't outright *want* to flip the bus, he's not a good enough driver to avoid it. He does not like back-seat drivers; he is going to turn the wheel exactly the amount he thinks it needs to be turned.
I would like a driver who can steer away from the cliff firmly enough that nobody has to be thrown overboard but gently enough that nobody is worried about the bus flipping. I'm not getting one? so I think my best course of action is to work on getting the rock out from under the brake pedal.
