Trying to be optimistic about the future of this world, but failing. Already pretty depressed, and world politics aren't helping.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Clinton, but I'm voting for Clinton anyway. Trump is the apocalypse. Clinton may be continuing the slow spiral into hell we've been on, but isn't the apocalypse.

I also don't actually think Bernie would have been some savior of politics (I lost my youthful optimism in change and hope by seeing the reality of the Obama administration, and I really was a die-hard Obama fan in 2008, play out in reality); I'm not sure how he would have pulled off a lot of his plans. But still, I appreciate the direction he aimed to shift politics, and I would have been much more comfortable with that state of the world. But it's not happening. Oh well! There are some good things; Bernie did the right thing by holding out on an endorsement to leverage getting the democratic party to adopt much further left policies. Great!

But about the DNC emails: the whole thing has me confused. If this were released a month ago, when Wikileaks apparently already had them and it could have made a difference, why not release sooner? Especially if, allegedly, the emails have not been sanitized and there's a lot of identity theft'able information in there. What was the purpose of waiting? Wikileaks has done a lot of good things, but this (well, and some other things) feel pretty off the rails. Maybe we need a new Wikileaks, with a clearer governance model and principles founded on leaking information in the aim of advancing human rights. On the other hand, I mean yeah, a lot of the blame does go on the DNC for being pretty fucked up in the first place. (Though, over time anyone who spends enough time in organizations comes to realize how fucked up pretty much any large organization is... not that that's an excuse...)

I can't blame the people feeling like the situation with Bernie endorsing Clinton feels like a betrayal, especially with the above context that now we know the system did have internal biases. Who wouldn't feel that way? I feel that way. But where are we going? I really do worry that Trump is pretty much the end of US as a world power.

But you know what sucks? That's a super thin position to drum up the necessary level of enthusiasm that actually feels critical to stop the trump-pocalypse.

Clinton had an opportunity to reach out an olive branch to the more "independent" left. She could have chosen someone like Warren as VP. Why choose a completely flimsy centrist that absolutely nobody seems excited about? What kind of message did that send?

Damn! I want to be able to believe we aren't totally screwed, but I'm having a hard time keeping my head up.

Here's a cheer though: let's not fuck it up, America! Vote for not fucking it all up!

Great cheer, right?