Mar 03, 2020 11:25
I'm not the kind of person to not know who I'll be voting for as I roll into the polling station, but today, my pencil hovered over the Andrew Yang oval for an instant before I filled in the oval by Bernie Sanders' name.
I live in Vermont, so my vote doesn't matter (outside of the very local level). My state's primary contest couldn't conceivably come down to my vote. The decision of which oval to fill in amounts to a conversation I was having with myself.
Ultimately, I voted for Bernie because he is an active candidate and the Neoliberal power-brokers in the DNC are pulling out all the stops to undermine his campaign. If Andrew Yang had stayed in the race, I would have voted for him, but the contest now is between the Sanders revolution and the status quo, and I despise the status quo Democratic Party.