Vote Blue No Matter Who?

Here They Come Into the First Turn. Photo by Jeff Griffith on Unsplash

Being a Look at the two Least Qualified Democrats and the Debate Lineup

Props to Dale Napier, who discovered a second book by Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future. This note reflects my practice of correcting my errors but admitting having made them.

I’m going to write without titles, because nobody is going to read this who is not watching the Democratic Party horse race closely enough to know the titles. I’m even going to refrain from saying “Mayor Pete,” because it’s about damn time I learned how to spell his name. Luckily for me, these comments are written rather than spoken, so I don’t have to pronounce it.

Everyone knew the Democratic field would have to narrow down, and Democrats hoped that it could happen with a minimum of bloodshed. If nothing gets worse than the way Kamala Harris went at Joe Biden last time, then there will be no throat cutting. For the record, I think any candidate who comes prepared with a straight razor will be crushed in the backlash of “Vote blue no matter who.”

The least qualified candidates in the Democratic scrum are Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang. Let’s take a look who might be less qualified than a candidate who famously goofed off as an undergraduate, never went to graduate school, held no…