Are single-payer healthcare and free college really that far to the left? I’m hearing them represented as pretty mainstream ideas. Could be wrong, of course.
And wow, do I love the idea of being able to vote for a candidate who really has my back and shares my values. But we don’t have a parliament in the US. Does the two-party system suck goats? Yes. So very much yes. Can we reinvent it in time to prevent a second Trump term or Pence ushering in the Republic of Gilead? Not so much.
My concern is not just that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but that maybe right now the perfect is the enemy of finding ourselves in a radioactive wasteland eating rocks.
Frankly? I’m scared.
