Well, it looks like Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for President. It of course has actually been looking like that for quite a while, but now, even though she doesn’t have enough pledged delegates to win the nomination, she’s got a majority of them (even if Bernie were to get all the DC delegates in the final primary) and barring an indictment, I don’t see any super delegates (who are actual party members, as opposed to people who are just registered to vote as Democrats) changing their minds. It’s been a foregone conclusion for a while now, but I think you’ll see Bernie conceding shortly (once he gets whatever relatively meaningless concessions he can get – a prime time convention speech, at the very least, I would think, and maybe a promise from President Obama today to force the Florida Payday Loan Queen out of the DNC Chair).

I think Bernie’s been good for Hillary, having pushed her to the left ever so slightly be being in the race (ThinkProgress has a decent article about the ways that Hillary changed post-Bernie – and a few ways she didn’t like Capital Punishment, Fracking, and a Carbon Tax). Not that her “evolved” policy stands necessarily mean anything of course, but I think Bernie helped show anybody who was paying attention that taking stands against corporate greed and for working people are actually politically expedient.

I have to admit to being disappointed (though not surprised) by the results. I don’t have the animosity that some people seem to have for Clinton (both male and female – it’s not all misogyny or “boy crazy” young women – my wife, for one, is not exactly a Hillary fan, and my mother-in-law absolutely despises her. Mostly, I think, because she felt personally insulted when Hillary mad that comment about not staying home and baking cookies). After all, I voted for Clinton (twice) for Senator and again in the 2008 NY State Primary. I’m just sad because no matter how the election turns out, we once again won’t be getting a Liberal President – and I honestly think we need one.

Of course, god forbid we get Trump. It’s one thing to get basically more of the same, but if that loudmouth conman gets elected, I shudder to think what might happen. Hillary’s “foreign policy” speech the other day was a good start at attacking him, and I think you’ll see most of the “BernieOrBust” folks get in line the same way the “PUMAs” did in 2008.

It’s these “independent” and young voters I worry about. I don’t know that they’ll break for Trump so much as just become disinterested and not get out to the polls. ‘Cuz you know that teabaggers and Republicans – no matter what they say right now – will all fall in lock step behind anybody with an “R” after their name (especially an “R” that’s running against Hillary).

It would be nice to get finally get over the “a woman could never get elected President in the United States” thing (the same way – no matter how you feel about Obama – that it was nice to get over the black guy getting elected hurdle). I’d just prefer it was somebody like Elizabeth Warren (who I hope doesn’t run as VP because I think she can do a lot more as a Senator and I’d hate to think that Charlie Baker would get to appoint a Republican Senator at a time when it’s crucial to take back the Senate).

Whatever happens, it’s gonna be a long, ugly road to November 8th. I don’t think I can stand listening to (and looking at) Trump and his idiot followers for the next five months. Heaven help us if we have to look at him for the four (or eight) years after that.