1. My parents went to the Chinese Civil war on their honeymoon & lived in it for three years. I was raised by liberal Democrats who in 1947 did not necessarily consider Russians the enemy. After China American foreign policy was run by the Dulles boys. We dug in & so did they.
2. My father died in 1962 when I was 9. We moved back from St. Louis to my parents' home towns on the Connecticut river in Western Mass. A Five-College college town. Lefty heaven. @UMassAmherst had a Marxist chair of its Economics Dept. My mother worked in admin. I went there.
3. I went back years later to finish my degree and had an anarchist professor for legal studies. I've worked on campaigns all my life. Since childhood. I am very much a liberal but it would never occur to me to vote for a socialist. But I did. 1st non-democrat I've ever voted for
4. In 2016 I caucused here in Hawaii for Bernie Sanders. I feared Hillary's negatives. I had never caucused before. I generally support the party candidate and find primary politics distasteful. I focus on the GOP.
5. I support my national & local Democratic parties & trust they produce an electable candidate. I only care about winning and believe Trump poses an existential threat.
If we pick Bernie, a Socialist and non-Democrat, Trump can win. Trump can't beat @JoeBiden. #IowaCaucus
If we pick Bernie, a Socialist and non-Democrat, Trump can win. Trump can't beat @JoeBiden. #IowaCaucus
