Stop with the 2020 coverage already

hey everyone.  It's been an while since I posted here and actually just renamed my blog from Loud and Proud Liberal to G-man Politics.  I did this in part because I hadn't posted since May 2017 and because I realized I am not a loud person.  Like not even a little.  I also realized that the posts I did were stream of consciousness about my thoughts on Trump and the state of our country, and with those thoughts already out of the way I'm going to re-focus on topics one by one. 

Which brings me to the 2020 horse race that is going on already.  I get it.  This is how it's usually done, and most of our country is looking forward to getting Orange Julius out of the White House.  Also, no one has to get out of Hillary's way this time. 

I'm not even complaining about the candidates who are announcing their ambitions, because most are very qualified and bring a lot to the table.

What pisses me off is that an election that is almost two years away is taking news coverage away from the fact that the country is burning down around us.  I don't want Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, or Cory Booker doing anything besides the job they currently hold, which is, you know, kind of important right now. 

I'm not naive, I realize these candidates spend half or more of their days asking people for money.  That's the way the game is played now, but it fucking sucks.  It's why we have money wearing a name tag that says "Free Speech."  It's also counterproductive and stupid because these (in this case) senators should be concentrating on governing, and saving our country from the right wing inferno that is engulfing our lives. 

Just once I want to turn on MSNBC without a little pop-up ad that says "TONIGHT: Rachel Maddow one-on-one interview with (insert democratic presidential candidate)."   There are real crises right now--like climate change, lack of affordable health care, income inequality, crumbling roads and bridges, child refugee camps in Texas, and did I mention our president and two-thirds of republicans in Congress are quite literally doing the bidding of Russia? 

I just don't want to hear about 2020 until 2020.  Living in a constant election cycle is dangerous to democracy when there are real world problems happening around us.  Enough already.