It would be easier for me to get excited about Elizabeth Warren

[Ken Burch]

50. But principle matters as much as electability.

HRC's whole argument is based on the assumption that our party can ONLY win with a hardline militarist as nominee.

The country is swinging against foreign interventions at this point, so why assume that argument is still valid?

To nominate HRC, you have to believe that, somehow, war can be good for women.

How can anyone look at the reality of places like Iraq and Afghanistan and still believe this?

Or anyplace else(other than Europe in World War II) where we've sent troops in this century.

War, other than war for territorial defense, is going to be a misery for everyone who isn't a white male defense contractor. It can't provide liberation for anyone anymore, it can't make anyone equal anymore, it can't end injustice anymore. All it can do is temporarily expand or reduce "spheres of influence". And really, at this stage, ti no matters between us and Russia or China as to who influences what. All three superpowers use their "influence" for purely reactionary and life-hating ends. And our interventions are just as imperialist as any from Austria-Hungary, the Brits, or the tsars.