Eyes From The #9 — Friday

I’m too damn tired to think of catchy sub-titles for my posts so screw it… days of the week it is.

I also hadn’t planned on this post becoming political… but screw it. Political it is!

I finished unsubbing from all the political groups’ e-mails today — these increasingly frantic and hysterical money-begs had been clogging my Inbox… “TRUMP IS GAINING! Can we rely on your support?!” Nope. “CLINTON’S LEAD NARROWING! Can we count on your support? Please? PLEASE?!?!” Nope again. Unsub, unsub, unsub. Naturally, I have to wade through multiple screens of “PLEASE DON’T GO! TRUMP! END OF THE WORLD! SUPREME COURT! BLUE NO MATTER WHO!! LESSER OF TWO EVILS!!!!” Too. Damn. Bad. I am unmoved by the screams for mercy (and money). Why don’t they hit up the arch-conservative SuperPACS who *were* giving to Ted Cruz and *are* giving to Clinton (as an example)? They sure as hell aren’t giving to the homeless man asleep next to me, are they?

Ultimately I get to the final screen. Electronically worn out from all their (ineffectual) screaming, I am finally asked ‘…why? Why are you abandoning us?’ Okay, it’s not quite that pathetic… but close. My answer has always been the same — ”Bernie Sanders was shoved out the door by the DNC. I sure as fuck aren’t staying around.”

I look up into the eyes of an aged woman of color — she has to be in her 60s. She is wearing the uniform of a popular fast food restaurant. She looks as exhausted as I feel. I look around and I see the same look on everyone’s face — haggard resignation.

Fuck you Establishment… you took the only Democrat that gave a shit about us working poor. The people who ride this bus with me don’t have $35,000 to fork over for ‘Dinner With Hillary’; I sure as hell don’t. I don’t think any of us will even *make* $35,000 this year.

Bernie Sanders cared about us.

Donald Trump doesn’t.

And neither does Hillary Clinton.