Well it’s a race now. It’s pretty suspect how Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer all dropped out and endorsed Biden immediately before Super Tuesday while Warren, who fared far worse (compared to expectations) than all three of those candidates, continued her campaign. Now that she’s dropped out, she won’t endorse Bernie publicly, the candidate she is (supposedly) the most ideologically similar to. Doesn’t this all seem fishy? Does it harken back memories of 2016? It certainly makes it harder to have faith in “the establishment,” in our political system.

On the other hand, Bloomberg dumped I believe $700 million into his campaign. Like I said before, it’s his money, he can do with it what he wants. But it seems like an awful waste. He has proclaimed to pour more money into supporting whoever the nominee ends up being—wouldn’t it have been better to do that from the start? Did he ever really have strong convictions about leadership? It just goes to show that running against someone or something as your raison d’etre doesn’t work.

It’s important for us as citizens to ask such questions. They might be uncomfortable, and they might lead to even more difficult questions. But it’s our responsibility as citizens to think critically about the answers. If we want to govern ourselves then our election system and our political bodies must answer to no one else. Perhaps that’s the good news to all that’s happening—maybe we will wake up and see our political system for what it is. A thriving society requires our active participation. If we truly want the freedoms and justice we have grown accustomed to believing in, we must earn them. It will never be easy—no one who isn’t selling something has ever promised that—but it will make its retribution that much more fulfilling. We can change the world. It will take awareness, work, and perseverance, but it can be done. Do we want it?