What? You want to know about a time when I wasn’t such a crusty old bastard so down on Democrats? You want to hear about a piss-filled young progressive? Well pull up a chair Jason990. Let me tell you a little story about the olden days. It must be about forty years ago now that a man named Howard Dean came down from Vermont made some rumbles and raised some money online talking like a genuine Democrat. Why, he went right ’round the usual fundraising and appealed directly to the folks out there for $20 or $30 bucks at a shot.
Well, the people were right parched for a nice cool drink of undiluted Democratic speechifying and they came to that campaign by the bus load. I even started a blog back then to help support that campaign and pour rhetorical boiling oil down on all the Republican Morlocks, and the Democratic compromisers and bank lovers. ‘Course the national media and all the DC insiders couldn’t stand it so they put on the TV lynching of that campaign. But for a few months there it really looked like the Democratic Party was going to run an actual Democrat in an election.
But Gramps, after Howard Dean showed what could be done, why didn’t other authentic Democrats do that?
Fuck if I know.
An imagined conversation with my future grandson
