For anyone who didn't spot it, probably everyone, the title is a play on words of my favourite Nicholas Sparks novel A Walk to Remember. That book is beauty in its essence.
I'm going to do something a little bit naughty now and go against something that I said only a few blogs ago. Here's me getting a little excited about politics.
In my second year of college, I decided to be nothing short of a nutcase and study A Level politics in one year, because I LOVE IT. I love British politics and generally couldn't wait until the first time I got to vote. I got my parents voting, and that was a bit of a miracle.
However, that's not what I am going to talk about right now.
Right now I want to throw a party and drink all of the wine (yeah, I've already started) to celebrate Bernie Sanders' win.
Bernie Sanders is someone I heard about that year I was studying the American political system. In American politics, he is an anomaly. He is an anomaly because he's a socialist, and yet the people of Vermont come out and they vote for him and he stays in power. And that might be about to change.
He is the Democrats opposite pole to the craziness that is Donald Trump. He is pulling the Democrat party further to the left, and that's a good thing, but it's also a trend thing. America does this. It fluctuates between the parties being too close together and too far apart. I think that, at the moment, we're moving towards them being too far apart, and have been for some time which is what causes the political deadlock, but up until now it has been rather slow. If the Democrats choose Bernie, and the Republicans choose Trump, it will be a major acceleration.
I get like this over elections. I can't wait to know who the candidates will be, but I won't be wishing away my summer. I can wait for November. No, really, I can?
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