With friends like these, who needs conservatives?

https://medium.com/@pauldavidperry/with-friends-like-these-who-needs-conservatives-d63e19aaaba9#.vbhgg19w2
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The notion of a Hillary vs. Donald general election haunts and saddens me. Two individuals, both the quintessence of their own unique establishments. A man of incredible inherited wealth representing our nation’s tone deaf economic “elite” whose campaign plays on demagogic tactics and xenophobic fears to further enshrine the dreams of the Dreamers. A woman with formidable political acumen representing our nation’s unimaginative political establishment who — though her very election would be a laudable milestone — remains deeply enriched by Wall Street, incredibly hawkish in her foreign policy and is running on “No we can’t” incrementalism that does not seek to fundamentally change the system that has rewarded her family so fully. Two candidates who have proven that they will do whatever it takes to win, in full embrace of our flawed electoral infrastructure, in pursuit of nudging us ever so slightly left or right. It would be a blistering and banal general election between two establishment titans; the conclusion of which will mean very little for ordinary people except a continuation of current trends. Open warfare between one economic dynasty against one political dynasty: full of sound and fury, ultimately, signifying nothing.

I expect the Trump faction (though living with them in the same country leaves me feeling threatened every time I step out of the house). But like King, what worries me the most are the moderates unwittingly providing them cover. The #Hillhuggers who yell down to me from that city upon the hill and tell me that my family’s Sisyphean climb up to that morally bankrupt metropolis is righteous and just as it sits upon the bones of my ancestors. The Dreamers who tell me to wait just a little longer on enjoying a standard of living that their families have come to expect as the floor for generations.

We share different dreams. Though I hope one day they can be one.