No More Political Endorsements

We're a week away from Election Day, and I encourage you to vote, either early or on November 8.  However, I have decided that I, as the author of this blog, will no longer endorse political candidates effective immediately, though I could endorse a specific candidate in future elections . . . and I just might.  

Why am I suspending endorsements of political campaigns?  Two reasons.  First, my endorsements in the past have increasingly skewed Democratic so reliably and issues have become so nationalized that, given my Humphreyesque liberal politics (I have more in common with HHH than AOC), I can just give a blanket endorsement to all Democratic candidates and all independent candidates endorsed by Democrats, which is a very lazy action.  I'd rather not say that I endorse Democrat Candidate X because he/she endorses Policy Y and Z while his/her Republican opponent supports Policy F and then fill in the blanks for the offices I choose to focus on.  You know who I'm going to vote for already based on my opinions on this blog, so why bother going through an endorsement charade?

The second reason is what happened in California.  Last week, Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul was attacked in the Pelosis' home in San Francisco by a right-wing assailant who was hoping to assassinate or at least severely maim the Speaker of the House.  Soon after that a Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to threatening to kill another California House Democrat, Representative Eric Swalwell, and members of his staff.  This all should make us focus our energies on going out to vote if only to show the democracy still works and that we can resolve our differences without having to resort to violence.  If House members and the Speaker's husband are both fair game for right-wingers, what can we expect in a Republican House come January 2023?   Will some leftist militant like the one who shot House Republican Whip Steve Scalise in 2017 attack Judy McCarthy at her home in Bakersfield in the hope of getting to her husband Kevin?  And by the way, why has Kevin McCarthy never been held accountable for his own August 2021 statement that "it'd be hard not to hit Nancy Pelosi with a gavel" - and while he did condemn the man who hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer, why didn't he make a statement disavowing all forms of violence against Democrats and progressives?

In light of all this, handing out political endorsements on this blog like Halloween candy doesn't make sense anymore.  So I'm going to stop, just as I stopped publishing end-of-year winners and losers lists that were just as meaningless, if not more so. 

Now go and vote, like I did.

See you 'round the clubs.