The Democratic Party has been having a tough primary. A bit tougher than some recent years. A lot less tougher than many past campaigns.
But now the Democratic Party may well be on the cusp of its most difficult campaign season since 1968. The ruckus sparked at the Nevada State Democratic Convention is not dying down.
Myself, I ascribe this to the fact that public discontent with America’s political climate has been building for decades. I ascribe this to things like eroding American democracy (The SCOTUS intervention in 2000, Citizens United, etc) and to existential threats to the nation and even humanity. (Climate change, mass extinctions, and the world war which will result.)
But I keep hearing that these trivial things I worry about are not the real issue. I keep hearing the real reason for discontent is all Sen Sander’s personal fault. Sen Sanders is not a leader. It’s really all about Sen Sanders’ ego which is causing him to undermine a true leader, Hillary Clinton.
So I ask, where is Hillary Clinton?
Where is this champion, this natural leader, this White Knight? You are the presumptive candidate of the Democratic Party. Why are you silent? Why the blackout?
In my mind a true leader would now be taking command. Of course, a true leader would never have let things get so far out of hand.
The responsibilities and burdens of leadership do not fall on the candidates who fails to get the party nomination. They fall upon the candidate who does.
Our leader is AWOL.
Certainly there are millions of Americans who see in Clinton a leader. But there are millions of Americans who have never seen Hillary Clinton as a natural leader. Like it or not, believe it or not, that is a fact. A fact which really has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.
This past week has been illustrative of just that.