After #DemDebate night and reflecting with Dominick on how the nomination contest has played out in both social media and real life, I don’t think I can take anymore of the presidential race. I’d rather work to get Democratic lawmakers into majorities, and let others work to get Sanders or Clinton into succeeding PBO.

News media is jostling over whether Clinton or Sanders won the first debate, while Democrats are hurting all over from the last two midterms. While Sanders expands his interactions with AAs and starts to affirm that #BlackLivesMatter (for which I am proud), his supporters have already burned bridges with many pro-BLM activists on social media while I looked on in horror. I’m really muted about Hillary because of the iconic symbolism of having a (first) woman president who at least tilts toward progressive ideals (“a progressive who gets things done”). I really do want her to do better intersectionally in her policies, as I do Sanders and, yes, (VP-in-waiting) O’Malley.

But again, Democrats are hurting. Progressives and liberals in general are hurting. Social cannibalism abounds in the GOP’s state-level and federal-level policies. Nothing is getting done with state or federal legislatures to fix the cracks left by negligent or abusive government in our society. The state-level Democrats in Georgia and the Old South are a lost brand, spoiled goods which make little sense for progressives and liberals in the South to support.

So I’m just tired of presidential election news, because the presidency has only so much that it can get done. I tire of waiting on pins-and-needles to see the candidates become everything that America needs. I’d rather help get more progressives and liberals into legislative and statewide office. Next year will be an opportunity for that, so I will ask around.

I’m thinking of backing away from most of my active involvement with the regional Sanders grassroots campaign. I have not been too actively involved for months.