Barack, Bill, Hillary, and I

I am sick and tired of the Democratic primaries. I have stopped enjoying the whole thing because it doesn’t fell like an election anymore, but like a titanic struggle for the soul of a party, the Democratic Party who never had one in the first place. I have decided to stop watching until the whole thing is settled. Even as spectator I feel dirty just watching and more importantly, I feel cheated because I don’t like the narrative that is developing. I support Hillary, but I don’t hate Barack, and I’m not even bother by the fact that Bill is feeling compel to play as much of role in Hillary’s campaign as she did in his by being aggressive and by putting her before himself. I have to admit that it is hard to watch the whole thing and not to think of the Democrats as wimps who can be lovable at times, but also so irritating with their obsession with purity. They, with the French Socialists, are the only party members capable of turning what was supposed to be a blockbuster election into an all or nothing contest all just because they have just realized that Barack is Barack, Hillary is Hillary, and Bill is Bill. Suddenly, the narrative is that there is something wrong or deficient within some if not all of them because they are trying to win. I don’t know what is going to happen, but I feel that something has been broken, not irreparably, but broken.  The Democratic party and an apolitical electorate wants to find love within this election instead of just finding someone that is going to first do the j.o.b of president, before thinking of big ideas that have not effects on the lives of the people. I love politics, but I don’t like when it becomes like a religion where it is necessary either to have a messiah that will change America or to defeat the Antichrist who is the cause of all the wrongs of the country. So, I am doing more than turning the volume down, I am tuning out because I don’t want to watch the crash, the two cars colliding, even though I will be there at the end to pick up the dead and help heal the wounded.