Hillary is for Single Payer. Bernie is not
The latest round of raging from the Bernie crowd on this site compells me for the first time to sit down and write a diary specifically addressing health care. Having spent the last 3.5 years working...
View ArticleSome Questions for Bernie Sanders Supporters who vilify Hillary Clinton at...
After Bernie got crushed in his first statewide election, he saw an opportunity when Peter Smith, the Vermont Republican congressman in office had a real pang of conscience and conversion moment and...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
A true progressive doesn’t care for labels. He or she cares for people. He doesn’t go look, there’s a black person, there’s a gay one, there’s a Moslem – he says: here are people, together. He says:...
View ArticleA few thoughts on losing a patient today
Maybe the issues we’re facing aren’t, at root, political but cultural. Maybe they’re not even cultural but something deeper.We were promised the future would bring solutions but it’s mainly brought...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts on Bernie's Challenges with People of Color
I was talking to a friend who was very active in the civil rights movement in the 60s (though now in her 70s she is mostly retired) and she had some interesting insights as to Bernie’s issues with...
View ArticleWhy I support Hillary: A Buddhist’s perspective
At this point we have heard the arguments on electability, policy, experience, and judgment. I could lay out my thinking on those grounds, which is informed by decades of work in hospice and health...
View ArticleThe Anxiety of Revolution
A few weeks back I wrote my take on the two candidates from my perspective as a longtime meditation practitioner. In a nutshell, I wrote that Clinton’s approach to change mirrored the insights of my...
View ArticlePerspective from the social justice front lines: I'm voting for Hillary...
There have been a bunch of these voting blogs going around and I wanted to share mine. Of course there are other reasons beyond the ones given below but these especially resonate with me and I wanted...
View ArticleIT WAS MY FAULT
Trump won because of me. Not because of Comey, not because of racism, sexism, not xenophobia, not lies, not Russia. Not Wikileaks. Not because too many people sat out the election. Not because Hillary...
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