Thers opens up a can of whoopass on what matters in our support for candidacies and our pursuit of a government that provides for the needs of the citizenry.

And this is not just a problem for us Liberal Fascists. Look at how long the anti-abortion maniacs prayed and organized and voted, and then they finally got their guy and their legislature — and then pffft, really. That has to count as the longest Intimate Massage without a Happy Ending in all of recorded history. Which is fine for those freaks; they get off on it, so they’ll always come back for more, eventually, as per a dynamic John McCain knows damn well and is right now banking on, the fucknose perv.

But it shouldn’t be like that for liberals. The system does force us to get behind a particular candidate according to the electoral clock. But we need to recognize the two big dangers of the system. ONE, the confusion of the person with the point — we want specific things, like no more stupid wars, decent healthcare for all of us, no more assholes telling people who or how they should fuck. More and better jobs. That sort of shit. We will get that when we make the system give it to us: in other words, by building a majority that is capable of Bending the Political Class to Our Iron Will. (I just put that last bit in for Dr. Load.) TWO, the problem of assuming that just because you won an election, you’ve won the day. You have not. You’ve won the day when your kids get sick and you don’t have to blow anyone or lose your house to get them to the doctor.

All of which is to say that HRC has pissed me the fuck off with her McCain fluffing of late, Obama strikes me as just some guy from Illinois, and John McCain wants to kill everyone because he’s deranged.

So if you’re wondering who I support in the primaries, the answer is, I don’t fucking know. Or care, particularly.

It’s US that matters.

The takeaway, for me at least, is that this isn’t just about picking the Right Candidate and defending them and their honor from every affront to the death for the next eight months. The progressive movement online has to seek to create a relationship where politicians and candidates respond to the needs of the country, as dictated by what people tell them. And no, Michael O’Hanlon, Peter Beinart, and Bill Kristol are not the people I’m talking about.