Something wild happened in America last week.
The Liberals took over the elections, and now Democrats will control Congress come January.
I’m going to start this post with a story. Like maybe almost ten years ago, when Haley Stevens was running for Congress in Michigan. My Indian political friends hosted an event for her at their house. I went and met her. She rubbed me the wrong way, but I didn’t tell anyone because all my friends were supporting her.
Now she just flipped sides and backed a Republican. Back then, she seemed like a bitch to me, quite honestly. Michigan Democrats have kicked her out of the party, I heard. Whatever, I never liked her.
At the time that I went to this event, I had a hairbrained idea. I didn’t tell anyone but my dad about it because it was crazy. I thought I should run for office. Some office; I didn’t know which one. I remember telling my dad.
“Yes, I think you should do it. But if you are going to do it, you go all the way,” he said.
“You want me to become president, Dad?” I laughed.
“Yes,” he said very forcefully.
“What about my past?” I asked.
“You don’t worry about anything in your past!” he said again, rather loudly for a quiet old man.
Daddy, I’ve been in psych wards, I wanted to say. But I couldn’t say it because I was so dumbfounded by how much confidence he had in me.
After going to a few political events held by Indians, I dropped the idea of running for office. In retrospect, I don’t think that politics is my role in life. Too many facts, too much information to remember. That’s not exactly my style.
And Bernie Sanders, my idol, is like 85 and still going to like 100 rallies a year or something.
That doesn’t sound like retirement to me.
I don’t have the energy to run for office. I am a good speaker, but I just can’t do that.
What really moves me to this day is my father’s faith in me. He thought I could be president. Wow, what an honor to be his daughter.
Anyways, back to the Blue Wave, Abdul El Sayed won the election in Michigan, where I live. He is the first Muslim to be elected to the US Senate. But that’s not the best part. He is truly amazing; I’ve seen him speak, and he can debate the best of them. He will go on to do great things.
Maybe he will become president one day. If this country could hire a black man, maybe it could get on board with a Muslim man. Crazier things have happened. It will probably happen before America hires a woman.
For some reason, there is so much built-in misogyny in this country that a woman president just seems like a dream. However, having said that, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is one of the only candidates the Democratic Party has for president. Besides Gavin Newsom, don’t get me started on that clown.
I personally think AOC is a rockstar. But I don’t think the country is ready for someone that liberal, so I don’t think she will win. I also really like Pete Buttigieg, but is the US really going to vote for a gay man for president?
No. Let’s get our heads out of the clouds.
I don’t know who should be our next president. I just know we need to change regimes.
I personally am very left, probably left of left. I thought I was a communist until I went on a date with a communist. Real communism is scary.
I am really just a Democratic Socialist. It’s not that scary. Much of Europe sort of falls in that category.
So the Blue Wave we had in our elections was very promising.
But it is just the beginning. The real work starts now.
Hopefully, those we have elected are up for the job. It’s quite a job, people.
People like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have devoted their entire lives to this movement. It’s too late for them to hold presidential office, but it’s not too late for those who are younger and maybe even sharper.
Let’s hope for something radical to happen in the next presidential election.
Democrats have two years to get their shit together.
Let’s say a prayer.
nina
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