Hmm… Hippies for Hillary?

I kid, of course, but there is something in that comment that caught my attention.  You can’t give people good Karma.  You can send Love and offer Positive Vibes, sure.  Maybe I’m just being aggressively nitpicky about it, but it speaks to a larger issue.

If people are (un)willing to light a candle for Hillary’s campaign/nomination, I have to ask why they’re aren’t lighting candles for Peace; for an end to this clusterfuckathon in Iraq; for our troops and their families; for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Have they been lighting candles to bring Justice to the miscreants of the Bush administration?  For an end to poverty?

I appreciate that people invest themselves, so to speak, in a candidate, and I get that Hillary’s campaign has been an amazing historical event in our nation’s story.  I really do.  But - her supporters don’t seem to realize that the stakes are far beyond gender/racial/political “triumphs”. 

This election cycle is probably the most important cycle many of us will ever experience.  This is about something much, much bigger than breaking through social barriers, and while I appreciate their support for Hillary, they don’t seem to realize the true importance of this… struggle, for lack of a better word. 

I don’t think the majority of Hillary’s supporters are crazy or ignorant or even particularly misguided.  But I can’t help but feel they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture.  This isn’t about whether women or black people have suffered more or whose “turn” it is.  There are 6.2 billion people in the world, including 300-some million Americans.  This is not about Hillary.  We don’t need to reward someone because they’ve “been through a lot”... we need leadership and a new direction.

We need to think beyond our bumper stickers.