SO MUCH THIS.

Amazing but I wish she’d add this doesn’t mean you have to give into political cynicism. This is one race. Third parties and more inclusive politics don’t spring up from one race. They have to be nurtured locally. They need a good representation in Congress to do anything. It’s not do or die on this one race.

I’m with ya, BoobPunch. I can’t touch the MaryJane due to massive pre-existing panic disorder/depression. My sister’s panic disorder was brought on by the THC in some pot she smoked at 16. (It would’ve come out later anyway, but THC is known to activate panic disorder lo these many years). The famous “paranoid”…

Please note, that my tempered support - or as you term it “distrust,” not a word I used - comes from a voting record I would wish were more in line with Progressive beliefs. And I am aware that people can and do change their minds and positions. The addition/acceptance of some of these issues into her platform has…

Yep. This is why we old broads keep harping at the Youngs to keep history in perspective & not rest on any imaginary laurels because “we already have feminism and equal rights, it’s over”..... This kind of shit was happening while we were teenagers, young adults, college students. The 80s & 90s were the Backlash…

...sheltered from it if you are white. People of color, however, experience racism in the Bay Area all the time, every day. Like W. Kamau Bell at the Elmwood Cafe in Berkeley, or Rasheed Albashari and his friends at Lake Merritt last December, when a white woman yelled Islamophobic slurs at them and threw coffee on…