Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Rep. John Delaney running for Pres. in 2020

Democratic Rep. John Delaney is running for Pres., making him the first "mainstream" Democrat to run in the 2020 cycle.  He doesn't have a really long congressional tenure and thus doesn't have a lot to go by in terms of foreign policy record, but he seems decent and certainly light-years better than a neofascist such as Trump.  Were he to get the Democratic nomination, I'd recommend voting for him in a close race.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Billings Montana local elections

My city, Billings Montana, is having some local elections.  These elections, of course, don't affect foreign policy, but since there is a mayoral candidate who is a far right Republican (who I think was a Trump supporter) and a city council candidate who was a Vietnam War era veteran who has nationalist symbolism on his facebook page, I decided it would be best to vote against these two candidates, despite whatever shortcomings their opponents may have.