Card of the Day: Son of Wands

This guy has something he wants us to know, or else he wouldn’t keep showing up. Every time I see him, all I can think about is the 2020 election, which I don’t like thinking about. I’ve heard my voice shoot up three octaves with friends I love and don’t fundamentally disagree with (at least for the most part) around the Democratic race.

This card, to me, represents the selling of a particular brand of US presidential politics—a charismatic male/masculine leader who can draw people in. I think even in best-case scenarios (meaning: when the person isn’t a clinical psychopath), the way we do presidential politics today means that inevitably, even a well-meaning and good-hearted candidate will fall into arrogance and ego-mania.

I remember reading George Lakoff after the 2016 election. In part, he talked about how liberals go to universities to study liberal arts, humanities and classics, and everything they do is steeped in rationalism. Conservatives go to business school and learn how marketing and advertising stir people’s emotions. Unfortunately, and apparently, voting is not always a rational activity.

Which leads me to: Warren is my candidate. (And *actually,* as I’ve said in a previous post, Mark Charles is my REAL candidate.) Not because I 100% support everything Warren says (she still hasn’t taken responsibility for claiming Cherokee ancestry and claiming to be a woman of color), BUT: because of my white-hot burning rage over the misogyny/misogynoir in our culture. Remember: a black woman couldn’t even make it to this stage of the race. I am so, so tired of what I’m seeing. And I’d like to see Warren—here’s to post-menopausal women!—win just to stick it to the forces that underestimate and denigrate women in power. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.