Anarchy In The US

I see so many people worried about electability. I see them fretting about some candidate winning the nomination who might turn off old people, or young people, or progressives, or conservatives, or independents, or a whole bunch of other groups they've managed to divide its into.
Why start out compromising? Why play by their rules? Why go for the safe and uninspired choice, simply because you're afraid?
Warriors do not attack from a place of fear. Champions do not become champions for settling before they start. Changing the world requires risk. It requires bold moves and leaps of faith. It requires resolution and determination, and adhering to your hopes and dreams, even when they seem lost.
So if you want national healthcare and the rich to pay their fair share, demand it. If you want free college, if you want worker's rights and accountability for the powerful, and if you want help for the poor, demand that as well. Don't start out hoping for breadcrumbs. No visionary or winner ever set out looking for second place.
Don't settle, especially when no one is even asking you to settle. That's fear talking. It's being frightened of the unknown, as if the unknown could be worse than what we have now. That's trying to bargain, like when you hope to influence fate or the heavens to help you win the lottery by saying you would be happy with just a million rather than 100 million. It's as if you think that's a sacrifice, and that it will ever be heeded by whatever indifferent God or leader or leprechaun might overhear you.
You're not always going to get what you want, but you're never going to get what you want if you don't ask for it. No one is going to respect you if you're begging for what's already yours. We have the power, all of us. We vote. We outnumber them. We can paralyze the nation if we all join together. That's what the people in charge are afraid of, and we play right into their hands. That’s why they outlaw protesting and bust up unions and intimidate voters. We crave change, but fear the sacrifice and uncertainty that comes with it.
So in the primaries, vote for who you want to vote for, not for who you think might appeal to other people you don’t even agree with. When you try to game the system, you usually wind up losing more than you win. Nothing has really changed in your lifetime playing their game, so why keep playing it?
Sure, if in the end, your candidate doesn’t win the nomination, and you're backed into a corner and have to choose the lesser of two evils, you choose the lesser of two evils. But until then, why come from a place of capitulation? You vote because you want your voice to be heard, why let that voice be dictated by fear and by other people’s beliefs? That’s how young people feel, and they are young enough, as well as desperate and brave enough, to go down fighting. It’s always that way whenever a younger generation tries to change the world they live in. In the 60’s, the hippies were treated like freaks and anarchists, simply for asking for most of the things we still want today. As David Bowie said,

“And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through”

He could not be more correct. Don’t instill your fears into them. Don’t act like they are clueless, simply because you are afraid that they are going to upset the status quo. The fact that Bernie or Warren scares people is probably the biggest reason to vote for them. As much as we hate Trump, were we actually happy with what we had for the decades preceding him? As great a president as Obama was, we still didn’t get a lot of the things we wanted and he promised, not that it was really his fault in most instances. He had a Senate and a Republican party thwarting his every move, the same exact thing we have now, and they get away with it for the very same reasons: enough people let it happen. Are we just supposed to be satisfied going back to the disillusioning and mediocre ideas and stalemates from the past? Nothing was working, so why look to the same things and expect it to work now?
So people are really going to get mad at me for saying this, but I don’t care. If you’re really feeling revolutionary, if you really want change, vote for who you want in the general election, even if they aren’t going to win. If Biden is the choice, and you really don’t want him to be president, vote for Bernie or Warren or Pete or whoever you feel represents you. Let Trump win again, and maybe it will eventually sink in to the establishment that if they want to win, they have to listen to people outside the establishment as well. Kowtowing never really gets you anything worthwhile; things that matter take work and sacrifice and bravery. I would hate four more years of this corrupt and psychotic imbecile. Millions of people will suffer. Our country will be harmed for years to come.
Sill, it’s happened plenty of times before, and will keep on happening until someone breaks the pattern. Sadly, people are very slow learners, and they seem to have to suffer greatly before they figure it out. I’m at the point where I would be okay with it, if that’s how people choose to go. I’m not going to blame them for doing what they think is right. If it happens, there’s not much I can do about it anyway. The last three years of blaming each other for Trump’s victory accomplished absolutely nothing, and the Republicans couldn’t be happier. We are still just as divided and in disarray as ever, standing in a circular firing squad and headed for the same outcome.
Personally, I would vote for Biden if he was the candidate, even though I really do not want him as my president. I am old, though. I am tired. My anarchy days have passed me by. I didn’t vote for Hillary because I thought she was safe, I voted for her because I thought she was the most qualified candidate. This time, I would vote for Biden just because it seems safer and easier and less aggravating than having Trump in office. So much can change in a four year election cycle. As I said, though, I’m old, and a lot of what happens isn’t going to affect me very much, at least not anymore than it already has. It’s the younger people who are going to have to deal with the repercussions for decades, so who am I to tell them what to do? If they want to make a statement, if they want to try to change the world, then have at it. I will understand it, and I will support it. It beats doing the same dumb thing over and over again. Another song quote comes to mind, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” I would rather go down fighting, and die on my feet rather than live on my knees. Voting for someone I don’t even like really feels like living on my knees.
Vote for whatever and whoever inspires you, and you just might find that you get what you want for a change.