Waving Blue

ANDREW GILLUM, the African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, is going to run for governor as a Democrat. If he wins. he will be the first Democratic governor of Florida in a very long time, and the first black governor ever in America. During the primaries, running against more moderate candidates, he was never ahead in the polls, and the fact that he is a Bernie Sanders progressive who pulled off a major upset is not only surprising, but possibly a portent of the forthcoming midterms. If Beto wins in Texas, Cortez in Brooklyn, and Gillum Florida, not to mention a few other left wing progressive candidates,, we'll have ourselves a real blue wave, bigly. it still seems unlikely that these people win win, but all across the fruited plain women and minorities are registering to vote in record numbers, and women, most of whom are Democrats, are running for office in record numbers. A progressive, as a point of fact, is what used to be called a "liberal", but no longer is, because the conservative community ruined the word by slandering it to death, much like they did the word "homosexual", and "black". A blue wave, a massive election of progressives, would raise the minimum wage, revive social spending for the poor, reinstitute progressive taxation by raising taxes on the corporate wealthy, reduce military spending encourage decent treatment for gays, transgenders, and minorities, and maybe, just maybe, rid the country of Trump. if nothing else, we could possibly, at long last, put an end forever to these infamous "bathroom bills", according to which transgender people must use public restrooms of the gender indicated on their birth certificate, which is pernicious right wing nonsense. What better way for sanctimonious, pernicious conservative Christians to punish sin, that to torture those who practice it, eh? had he not been chosen to run with Trump, Mike pence was fixin' to get run out of the great state of Indiana because of a bathroom bill. he promulgated one, as governor, the Indianans rose up in righteous rebellion, as just a a progressive posse honed in on his progressively Pence-ive self to force upon him penance, Trump saved his sanctimonious ass, so to speak. Progressively speaking, former hedge fun manager and current billionaire Tom Steyer has a petition on going, bless his lucrative heart, calling for the impeachment of President prevaricator. In the event of Trump's demise, guess what right wing extremist, bathroom billing Christian conservative assume the presidency? The lesson here is; be careful what you petition for.