HIGHEST RECOMMENDED KOS DIARY: "Dear Hillary Clinton supporters"

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227. Bernie Sanders represents a state that just, for the first time, became dependent...

...on fracked gas for electricity generation.

Until two years ago, Vermont emitted no carbon dioxide to generate electricity. Today it does.

I personally oppose dumping any carbon dioxide at any time for any reason, but I take endless grief for it.

Right now, in Vermont, trucks are tearing through forests to put up stupid and toxic wind turbines, ripping trees out of the ground.

...Just saying.

I really don't care who wins this nomination. I think however all this criticism of Ms. Clinton is a little absurd. Irrespective of the wave of enthusiastic fantasy here - and I say this as a guy who was a passionate supporter of another Vermonter who didn't get very far in the Presidential race, Doctor Dean - Ms. Clinton's odds are better than Senator Sanders are. Her opponent will be a man like Trump, or Cruz. Is that what we really want?

Mr. Sanders, for the record, has a delusional policy on climate change, not much better than Ms. Clinton's. I am aware of Senator Sander's position on guns - which is as much a function of his locality as Mrs. Clinton's votes on Isreal - and I frankly find his opinion awful.

http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Bernie_Sanders_Gun_Control.htm

Basically, the official Democratic party position on energy is absurd. It's all wind and solar, both of which are wholly and totally dependent on having gas to back it up.

Basically, as my life draws to a close, I'm very upset at how banal and clueless our political rhetoric has become. It's the basic reason that I can no longer have any enthusiasm for any candidate.

The idea that Sanders is the messiah is a little puerile I think.