The Old Conundrum

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil"- Jerry Garcia

Still, it's less evil than the greater evil.  And we all have to make choices.  The older I get, the more I learn that you don't always have the liberty of choosing exactly what you want (and you don't always know ahead of time which one is the better choice- sometimes you just have to choose, and hope.)  All we can do is the best we can, all we can choose is the best option at the time- in life, and politics.  As long as we're moving in the right direction, we'll call that a victory. 

None of the Republican candidates are worthy of the presidency.  They've all shown themselves, in their own particular gruesome ways, to be either unqualified or just plain nasty.  And frankly, the Democrats are little better.  But, and this is a big but: they're still better.  We lost one, O'Malley, so we're really down to two: Clinton and Sanders.  You make the call.  Just remember, the perfect is the enemy of the good.  Sometimes holding out so that you get everything you want just means you lose most of what you want.  To me, Clinton is the best choice to be president.  She is the most experienced of all of them, on both sides.  Good experience, relevant experience, that she has learned from.  And she has the best temperament.  Good God, most of the Republicans scare me- the way they talk and think, we'd be in a nuclear war within weeks.

I'd like to see two reasonable people running: either Sanders or Clinton vs. a Republican who actually knows how to think, not the buffoons the Reps typically put up.  Give us two choices, clear choices, but both of whom are qualified.  I would hope the Republicans will put forward a reasonable candidate.  I'm not getting my hopes up.  A few more of their lunatics drop out each month, but there are some doozies left.  For the good of the country, I'd like to see the contest be between Clinton and Kasich.  Kasich has experience.  Of the Republicans, he is the most reasonable (that's not saying much.)  As governor of my home state he's been, well, up and down.  Some good, some bad, some awful.  But still, he would provide a clear alternative to Clinton, and if he were elected I would be able to sleep better than with, say, Trump in charge.   Between Kasich and Clinton, I'd choose Clinton.  And frankly if either of them won I'd disagree with them sometimes, and agree sometimes.  But I wouldn't worry much about an American version of the Brownshirts rising, as I would with Trump.

Clinton or Sanders, and then Dem vs. Rep.  As another musician said, "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice."