There was definitely more to say than I addressed here, but there'll be time enough in the coming months for the rest, I'm sure.
The real site of grief today, for my US friends, is the election you *won't* get to have in November, thanks to your narrowed options for presidential candidate.
There are so many important economic, legal, and foreign-policy issues you should be seeing hashed out on the main stage.
But the 2024 election has already been stolen--from you.
https://onlysky.media/mclark/the-election-us-voters-wont-get-to-have/
Okay, that's whiny nonsense. That's some "CLINTON STOLE THE ELECTION FROM BERNIE!" shit. Why would you think this sensible?
Am I to understand here that you're not even a registered US voter?
I take it you haven't read the piece.
I just read your absurd framing of it. That was plenty for me.
What did you interpret from my "framing"?
Jeebuzz, scroll UP.
Then you're not responding to what I wrote.
No, you're not processing my response.
Lemme put it this way: it's pretty rich for some apparently-non-voting expatriate to be deploring the state of American politics from freaking COLOMBIA, okay?
McFate, you know that I write on different countries. I write extensively on their politics, and explore spaces where they are failing or bolstering democratic action.
Here, I do the same for the US, advocating for the issues that US voters won't get to see hashed out on public platforms, or vote on effectively, because this year's been hijacked.
What are you actually angry about, when you see me write about the US the way I do other countries: compassionately and pro-democratically?
Who's angry? I'm just taking issue with a bunch of silliness. Maybe that's making YOU angry.
You've used a very personal and antagonistic tone from the very beginning of your replies.
I'm not angry. It's clear that seeing my summary tripped a switch - especially when your first thought was that this was going to be some "Clinton was robbed" nonsense.
I'm trying to understand.
Tough luck. You haven't understood what I've posted so far, and I don't imagine it was because I was unclear.
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Your first comment misread the summary by suggesting that it was a "Bernie was robbed" style lament.
If you're just upset that a non-US citizen is writing about US politics, when I routinely write about international state politics in a pro-democratic way, then you have to understand why that would be surprising for me. I wrote about India's election season just this Monday.
This is a really tense time for the world, though, so it always helps to understand what's caused the upset.