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I am enjoying the out-sized irritations of certain talking heads among Conservatives concerning a fairly simple action enjoyed by women for over a century -- the right to vote. The very idea that a woman might enter the voting booth, a venerated place where anonymity is sacrosanct, and while there choosing differently than her husband is driving them mad. I cannot actually believe they are surprised. When women were stripped of the absolute control of their bodies, controls which were meted to mostly men in state legislatures who immediately installed laws which have already killed more than a few women seeking simple healthcare, this day of reckoning was almost assured. Do they really think women are as stupid as they imagine them to be? It seems so. 

Our election is far from over, but early numbers about who is voting suggest women have a ten percent advantage so far. Just on the basis of that number alone, it seems we can reason out how things are going to go. All that's left is to parse the peculiarities of the Electoral College which as we know hasn't put forth a truly winning Republican President in over thirty years. 

Women seem to want those rights back that the sniveling Supreme Court wrenched away from them several years ago. And the only way that's going to happen is if Republicans are stripped of power and Democrats installed, both in the state and federal legislatures. The dwindling demographic called "white men" cannot stand up to a wave of women of all races coming for their heads. If I were them, I'd change my tune or turn tail and run. 

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My Pledge To The Democratic Party!

If efforts to push Joe Biden off this year's Democratic ticket for President succeed, I will vote Blue to help save my nation, but the day after I vote I will change my registration to Independent. The leaders of the Democratic Party will have demonstrated that they have as little regard for the vote of the citizens as do the Republicans, so I see no need, even after decades of loyal support to continue to identify myself with them. 

The latest round of back-channel discussions among leaders of the Party to oust Joe come on the heels of the end of the Republican Convention and are clearly keyed to setting up a Democratic Convention in which some way and somehow the candidate with 14, 465, 519 votes to be the nominee, or 87% of the total is replaced. That's an overwhelming number. He should under normal circumstances clinch it on the first round. He and Harris have accumulated 3, 894 delegates with only 42 remaining from the total number of 3, 949. 1968 delegates are required to become the nominee. Joe Biden has more than enough. 

Now I'm well aware that a Party can choose another nominee despite the one chosen by the voters. They have that right. But if they choose to exercise that right this year, it will come with a great price. I can see droves of disaffected voters like me, leaving the Democratic Party in disgust. To turn against the will of the thousands of loyal Democratic voters who have expressed a preference, in order to cater to the will of rich benefactors fearful of actual changes in policy that might cost them a few extra dollars, will wound the Party in way they can't imagine. I'm at a loss to imagine what alternate ticket might be proposed. I cannot imagine any that will have the name recognition of the sitting President. 

The last time the Democratic Party did this the President was Lyndon Johnson who was wounded by the Vietnam War. What enemy has Joe Biden succumbed to? Old age? To remove him from the ticket is a catastrophic move which could well lose the election, one which is easily winnable due to the lunacy on the other side. To do this is to openly admit for all practical purposes that the United States is a plutocracy, and that both our parties have been purchased by the ultra-wealthy who want to see things done to maximize profits. 

I have been a Democrat my entire voting life, but after fifty years of support the Dems will only be able to count on my support in the general elections from now on, if then, should they make this move. 

Update: I pledged to leave the Democratic Party if the Party rejected the nomination of Joe Biden, the sitting President, a leader and man I admire greatly. Let me amend that pledge, because something just occurred to me. Kamala Harris is the new presumptive nominee. I do not want it to look like I'm leaving the party because they nominated a black woman. I celebrate that choice, if the choice must be made. There is more than enough racism and the appearance of appearance racism in this country without me adding to it. 

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