My husband has felt the Democrats have a death wish for a while, but the first time I agreed with him was during the 2016 US Presidential election.

I wasn’t focused on the orange reality show celeb–no way that would happen–but rather on the strange dichotomy of the Democratic primaries. On the one hand, voters were clearly choosing Bernie. Instead of observing and analyzing this, the media and the party leaders seemed to purposefully disparage his ideas and his followers, implying both had neither the gravitas nor the pragmatism of Hillary’s.

It was Hillary’s turn, after all. She had been such a good girl, raising all that money, keeping the big donors forking out, and after she was out-primaried by Barack in 2008, she patiently built her leaderly establishment cred as Secretary of State so she could definitively claim her crown. It was just time for a Historic Outcome.* Which, by insisting on choosing a candidate with very high negatives and little charisma, the Dems pretty much insured.

The establishment leaders insist that Democracy Itself is on the ballot in 2020, and although Bernie gets even wider primary support, the establishment again undermines him and this time selects, from a broad base, a candidate with #MeToo issues, and not just this week. For time immemorial, Biden has had two issues: a rambling, confused speaking style that invokes dementia, and a hands-on, mouth-on approach to women.

I don’t disagree that democracy could be threatened, but what I think we need is the passionate participation of the Millennials, and we aren’t going to ever get that with Biden. Even the ones who don’t know Biden created the unforgivable student loans preventing them from wealth accumulation are going to look at their choices and see two womanizing old white guys. Why even get out of bed on election day?

Rumors are flying that Hillary may pull a phoenix, but her recent posturing indicates she’s more undead than reborn. Please, Michelle?

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* Actually, another Historic Outcome, since electing a black President was pretty historic. The other odd thing about the Dems was the way they never really embraced that.