.passed away at 8:55 this morning," family spokesman Simon Halls said in a statement to Us Weekly. "She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly. Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers."

Yep, 2016 officially sucks.

I like the title it's music to my ears. People who support Hillary are right wingers. Great video. I just wish they were gone daddy gone. Alas they are not going to leave the stage. Jimmy is right Bernie got nothing for his sheep dogging. For all his righteous talk about the duopoly why does he still continue to veal pen those of who are done with this lesser evil right wing party? But enough about Bernie and as for the Demorat's don't touch them they are pure evil not lesser one bit.

I don't even like the Democratic progressives who we elected. What have they ever done but roll over when push comes to shove. I read a letter from my senator Merkley which was a reply to a letter she wrote about NAPL. It sounded just like Hillary's official word salad statement on the pipeline. Same wording about the rights of workers and protestors blab blab blab. We supported and campaigned for Merkley. While he is responsive to his constituents he too is just another symbolic good cop. He refuses to go the distance or disturb the powers that be and pecking order of the thoroughly rotten to the core New Democratic party. Why does the Democratic progressive rank and file even bother to show up to their bogus local, state or national level DNC meetings?

I wish they we're just dumb. Unfortunately they support and believe in the Democratic overlords and are working hard to keep the power right where it is. Why bother to show up? Thanks a lot you fake progressives like Bernie and Ellison and even you Merkley. There is nothing moderate about either party it once again boils down to do you want a vagina probe along with your endless bloody wars and austerity? Why prolong the death of a dead as a doornail political party that has no intention of becoming a viable vehicle for any democratic or just change.

Me I'm playing it as it lays and have no interest in reviving a right wing neoliberal/neocon party that refuses to even minimally stop representing the global elites who inevitably rule Axelrod's 'the world as we find it'. I put my faith in ordinary people globally who somehow manage to rein in these rat bastard 'oligarchical collectivist's' who always proclaim their NWO is inevitable and the only way forward that's allowed. They always go too far and it's up to us to stop them. Sometimes when things fall apart it's best to let them fall and fail.

Change is hard as it involves dealing in the unknown. This time around the Devil we know comes in red and blue with no other color available. BS. don't listen to them they are the monkey's paw. Fear and loathing do nothing to promote the self evident truths and inalienable rights that humans have used to keep the wolves from the door. We need to face the music and dance to a different tune, hopefully on the dead Democratic party's tombstone. Why rehash the latest farce of an election instead of finding solidarity and standing with with ordinary people all over the world and unite to pry this vampire squid off our and the planet face?

Here's a chart from Goldstein's Book in 1984. It looks remarkably like the reality we face that's not fictional.

I've seen Democratic posters pronounce the Republican Party dead quite a few times, especially 2006, 2008 and 2012. Heck, even the Republican Party pronounced the Republican Party dead and publicly announced performance of an auto-autopsy. Yet, the Republican Party is now more powerful than it has ever been in its 162 years of existence; and, except for the Presidency, has been quite powerful since 2010.

Given the re-districting of 2010, which is likely to see a repeat performance in 2020, I expect the Republican Party to remain a force for along time. So much for pronouncing either of the two largest political parties in the U.S. dead. However, the post-autopsy vigor of the zombie Republican Party does not equate to the Democratic Party's being dead.

If the left wants to get anywhere ever, one of the first things it needs to do is face reality: (Failing to acknowledge the existence of a problem greatly increases the odds that we won't fix it.) In my opinion, the first reality it needs to face is that neither of the two largest two U.S. political parties is dead; and, together, they have a carefully-crafted stranglehold on U.S. politics. They may go through cycles during which one loses to the other, but they are still Number One and Number Two in almost every election in the nation. That has been the case for a very long time, despite the fact that many, many new parties have formed during the last 162 years. And, for a very long time, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to ensure that they remain Number One and Number Two, freezing out newcomers (with the help of establishment media).

I am not saying that the facts stated above can never change. I am saying only that the first thing we need to do is acknowledge reality. That task that confronts anyone wanting to change the status quo is enormous and daunting.

If the Michigan disgrace described in the video in the opening post says anything to me, it illustrates the silliness of expecting to reform the Democratic Party from within. Michigan was clumsy in the way it went about it but I expect the rest of the Party to get much slicker about pretending to be a big tent again. In reality, the tent has no room for anything but the center right.