An Historic Night

So Bernie lost and Hillary will (hopefully) be President. She wanted it so much and didn't give up, which is respectable. And she will be fine, as fine as Obama or Bill, if a little older and less charming. And I am glad that a woman may be President even is she is related to a former President. The feminist in me wants to love her and have her succeed, for reasons similar to quite like this woman's. Even with her pandering to whoever she happens to be talking to, her email scandal, her Iraq vote, her inability to seem really honest, I want to believe that she is sincere in her desire to serve and can loosen up once she wins the prize.

I am just sad that she is not a candidate who will be able or willing to do anything about the fundamental corruption of our political system. The legal corruption that is the way campaigns are financed and Congress's agenda has been bought by special interests. She has been part of that system for too long. In the past 20 plus years, she is much more likely to have talked and listened to lobbyists, campaign consultants, investment bankers, media pundits and all kinds of very very wealthy people than the kind of "regular folks" she claims to want to represent.

I tried to vote for the candidate who talked about addressing political corruption and inequality convincingly. Unfortunately, New York's ridiculously botched primaries denied me that opportunity. I was instructed by the Board of Elections to go to a polling location that did not have my name on the voting roll and today I got a rejection of my vote by affidavit in the mail for (you guessed it!), going to the wrong polling site. My one vote wouldn't have made the difference and I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but it does make it harder for me to celebrate with Hillary.