Walk Away

In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Beto said some honest and righteous things about Trump, but I was depressed by hearing coworkers act like he's the one stirring up hatred and divisiveness. That he's the one making it "political" and not helping. Then the Republicans went back to blaming the usual scapegoats like video games, ignoring how other countries with video games don't have the constant mass shootings like we do.

Anyway, some liberals want to convince Beto to go run for Senate. NO!! It's too late!! I do think he should drop out of the crowded Presidential race, because he's not doing much good there, but MJ Hegar is already running for Senate, and I think it would be pretty rotten for him to suddenly jump in now. Beto shouldn't have abandoned Texas in the first place, but it's too late for him to backtrack now. I'd rather he just drop out and put his support solidly behind our Texas Dems who are running for Cornyn's seat and Will Hurd's and Kenny Marchant's. Hopefully a lot of Texas Republicans will retire soon. There's been a slowly building exodus at the national level too. If we can get rid of enough of the GOP, we could finally pass some gun control; I hate that the NRA is only weakened but not dead enough for us get something done.

I'm sure other 2020 candidates need to stop running too, and maybe run for their Senate races. But I wouldn't actively lecture them without knowing about their own states, and local candidates. Beto, take this opportunity to drop out and go back home to El Paso. After such a tragedy, it would be perfectly understandable that you'd find campaigning too much and want to do something local. Want to hold more rallies against the continued family separations at the border. There's nothing wrong with you stepping back for a few years like Wendy Davis did until things are more favorable to try another state run. People puffed up Beto's ego too soon, comparing him to Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. But he needs to stop chasing the White House and do something else. Anything but fucking it up for MJ Hegar.