Bernie worries me. Bloomberg worries me. Buttigieg worries me. Klobuchar...

[Bucky]

... worries me. Biden worries me. I have concerns about all the candidates I'm not supporting currently. Of course the concerns I have about Bernie getting nominated will be a lot more concerning once I see him getting more than 30% of the vote. That hasn't happened yet, so I think it makes a lot more sense for supporters of other candidates to be more positive and more assertive about their own top choice instead of tearing down somebody else's.

Similarly, Mike Bloomberg's million dollar a day campaign will concern me a lot more once I see him getting more than 5% of the vote.

Also, Warren's vulnerabilities worry me. But once I decided to support her, I sacrificed those worries to the greater good of trying to help the candidate I thought was best qualified. To be honest, I'm kind of stealing that line from Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention.

Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors, I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die.

Once we have a nominee, I expect to sacrifice my concerns about them to the public cause of stopping the deranged fascist baboon from ripping up that Constitution. Right now I think we're all suffering from the traumas of losing despite winning in 2016 and seeing millions of seemingly normal people fall for the mawkish shenanigans of a malicious con artist.

I mean, how do you believe in democracy when you can read about a 49% approval rating for such a monster?

I actually have a diagnosis for that disease, but I don't wanna get into it right now. Accept and let me leave you with the thought that all successful politics depend on compromise and enthusiasm. I don't know what the solution is to 2020, but I'm going to hang on to my faith that we will come up with someone by the end of the summer to lead my party who I can and will support. And I won't be alone, because in a democracy you're never alone.

We can pull this out and we might as well have hope, because having despair never fixed a problem anyway.

[PatSeg]

1. Well said

[Laelth]

9. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[DBoon]

2. you sure are a worried man

[Bucky]

4. Haha!

Show me a person without worries, and I'll show you a person without wits.

Of course the bottom line in my little essay (which I mostly wrote for myself) is that Worry makes a lot less sense than Hope right now. I hope you read that far. I found these thoughts quite uplifting

[NJCher]

7. no

Read the book Focus by Daniel Goleman and you will learn that worry is a symptom of the unfocused mind.

A good example of focus is Bernie. If he listened to people like you, he wouldn't be ahead of everyone else, including Trump. I will be posting three new polls this morning. Take a look. Bernie just forges ahead. He doesn't sit around worrying.

Seriously, read the book. If you are focused on something (hopefully promoting your candidate, no matter who it is), you will not be worrying.

[dchill]

3. Thank you for your sanity!

[Bucky]

5. You know, I nearly wrote

"Klobuchar worries me because I'm not as quick at dodgeball as I used to be" but then decided slapstick comedy and misogyny are a bad mix for this crowd.

[handmade34]

6. "despair never fixed a problem"

"don't boo, VOTE!"



"https://vimeo.com/89384684"

[CTyankee]

8. I'm on it, Bucky.

I'm a big mammal swimming all quiet like undersea, catching those little fish for my lunch, waiting to surface at the right time...

[BusyBeingBest]

10. Of all of them, Klobuchar worries me the least.

I'm not super confident of anyone in this field of candidates, which is why I was undecided until this week. I find that I have very little give-a-damn about anything right now but a candidate's political skills, resources, and resume. Not concerned about policy proposals or what somebody said one or two or three or five decades ago.

[krissey]

11. I think Warren and then Klobuchar are the strongest in the field.

[Dietz]

12. Couldn't agree more

[Mike 03]

13. Recommended!

[MH1]

14. Very well said! Thanks for the post. nt