A Ray of Hope
For years I’ve thought of the people who vote in Republican Primaries as the salt of the earth – as old-fashioned, common sense patriots who might get bamboozled by a politician now and then but who in the end, blessed with a kind of inerrant compass, spot the varmints.
But when this year’s Republican Primaries rolled around and turned into a Twitter driven brawl it was like some essential DNA had mutated – and was replaced by a fever of internet driven hysteria that left Republican’s varmint spotting compass in tatters.
But then I read one number in a poll that said no matter how bleak politics is looking on the Republican side of the street it’s even worse over in the Democratic primary.
According to the poll 43% of the Democratic primary voters in Iowa are ‘socialists’ – not ‘might be socialist’ or ‘like socialists’ but describe themselves as ‘socialists.’
It was like a ray of hope.
A Ray of Hope
For years I’ve thought of the people who vote in Republican Primaries as the salt of the earth – as old-fashioned, common sense patriots who might get bamboozled by a politician now and then but who in the end, blessed with a kind of inerrant compass, spot the varmints.
But when this year’s Republican Primaries rolled around and turned into a Twitter driven brawl it was like some essential DNA had mutated – and was replaced by a fever of internet driven hysteria that left Republican’s varmint spotting compass in tatters.
But then I read one number in a poll that said no matter how bleak politics is looking on the Republican side of the street it’s even worse over in the Democratic primary.
According to the poll 43% of the Democratic primary voters in Iowa are ‘socialists’ – not ‘might be socialist’ or ‘like socialists’ but describe themselves as ‘socialists.’
It was like a ray of hope.