Now I have to ask myself, why wouldn't any self-respecting progressive, who's in favor of a foreign policy based on negotiation and consensus building, as opposed to unilateral big-stick militarism, who's in favor of an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as opposed to uncritical embrace of the Israeli extreme right, who favors Medicare For All instead of the current broken and corrupt for-profit health care system, who favors meaningful regulation of Wall St., instead of a de facto policy of privatizing profits and socializing losses, who favors keeping decent paying jobs at home instead of shipping them overseas via "free trade" agreements, who - well I could go on, but you get the general drift - why oh why would someone on the "yea" side of all these issues not be perfectly willing to do a complete about face and embrace all the things they used to be against, and reject all the things they used to be for? Because, you know, party unity and everything.

Well, there's only one logical reason I can think of: Like I said before, sore losers!

Eat shit and die, motherfuckers. Oh, but before you do, be sure and stick around until Nov. 8th and vote for Hillary. 'Cuz underneath those trivial and superficial differences, at the end of the day we're all loyal and faithful Democrats after all.

Why don't they just understand, what's the matter with them?

Don't despair, because actually you like it really.

This is starting to remind me a lot of 1968. I voted for Nixon after the Dems refused to modify the crazy stance on Vietnam. I would do it again.

American culture over the last decade, one of the most unpredictable to me has been that heterosexual anal intercourse became a trending fad. I am unaware whether a similar craze is raging through the lesbian community, via strap-on technology.

Fuck but, but

I like Jim Hightower's statement: "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos."

... if the only role you can have is the one they give you to "STFU, fall in line, vote how we tell you to vote...???"

I have had enough of this guilt trip, if the Democratic Party cannot earn my vote, then it doesn't get it, full stop. Oh but you can change it from within!

Does anyone remember the ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four? If you work from within to try to change things but never succeed because you are told it's not the right time to change anything ("We're in the beginning of a political campaign so we don't have time to impeach war criminals or investigate their lies and war crimes.) and besides which, you can't change things..., who becomes changed (at least after enough brainwashing)?

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

So..., who's ready to love Big Sister or Big Brother upon command? Or do you already love the Big Head on the Telescreen who tells you who to trust, who to believe, who to vote for, no matter what your conscience tells you...? (You do know the latest versions of flat screen televisions can turn on/off cameras and microphones from some remote location to monitor what you are watching and even what you are saying and doing, right? Telescreens are already here.)

[Here's where a Bernie supporter would tell me to go pound sand..., and..., a Hillbot would say (unconvincingly) that change can happen incrementally if we truly believe it can because the wizard behind the curtain says so, and for that piece of advice we all need to contribute to corporate profits and lose our money in Wall Street investments so they can add to their offshore accounts once the money laundering is done, and if nothing else, we should go to some foreign country and fight for corporate greed because it's the patriotic thing to do. It's complicated and we wouldn't understand so they're not going to explain it to us.]

$hit. The Democratic Party is OUR party.
The Party belongs to US and it is time we Occupied it.
The Clintons and their minions and the likes of Robert Rubin and Rahm Emmanuel have taken over what used to be our party and it is up to us to take it back.
OR we can leave the Name and the Banner and go Green. But if we have the stuff we will take back the Blue and make it BlueGreen.

Names are slippery things, we need to focus on POLICY not Personality or names.
150 years ago the Republican Party was the Progressive Party.
Lincoln believed that the Government should print the nations money in quantities that would support the deployment of resources, and the manufacture of goods. He also established the State Land Grant Universities., realizing that the real constraints on wealth are Resources, Labor and Knowledge. Lincoln was familar with the writings of Carl Marks.

After Lincoln's death, the ass hat economic predators wishing to cloak themselves in the ethical capitol of being the party who freed the slaves, inserted themselves into reconstruction in a way that left the South unreconstructed and much poorer, and subverted the Republican Party until Teddy Roosevelt snapped it back to its roots for about a minute, enacting labor and anti-trust law.

Under Union pressure, FDR made the Democratic Party what the Bull Moose Republican Party was under Teddy Roosevelt, and the reforms lasted for about 20 years until the Supreme Court inexplicably found that companies were not harmed by the Wall Street Market Makers who used their privilege of naked short selling to artificially drive the stock of an otherwise sound company down, did not harm the company, which reopened the Wall Street Casino behavior that had been tamed for a few decades, and the McCarthy Red Scare which effectively turned the country against the labor movement by projecting Communism and Socialism as necessarily being collectivist dictatorships, while ignoring that most rural development depended arguably collectivist efforts, on Co=Ops.

When we talk about Parties, we are actually talking about party organizations with a place on the ballot in enough states to win a national election. Some in positions of power will always try to make the government serve them to the detriment of the majority of the people.
We really need to spend some time developing a model of a system which is more resistant to exploitation and capture while being flexible and dynamic. Like maybe a constitutionally protected direct democracy and an initiative process .

I didn't hit the save button multiple times.

I didn't punch it on my laptop.

This duplicates crap and the inability to delete REPLIES has got to be fixed. I wish I had the mone to fix it.

Then you didn't vote for Bernie in a primary. That's part of the problem. People bitch and moan, but don't DO anything.