than almost anything else has been a most revelatory epoch.

Almost across the board the media and Democratic Party insiders have been exposed in a way that I can not un-see. That goes for clowns like Bill Maher, the duplicitous Rachel Maddow, NPR, PBS, and all the rest of the odious douchebags in the MSM, especially that I had before this election considered them sort of liberal. I noticed also how Mother Jones and Raw Story have been changing their tune, and even the Nation (there's probably more). Every single day it seems another player or institution springs forth as a fraud. It's been eye-opening to say the least.

Personally once this kind of deep betrayal sets in I don't look back. I stopped going to TOP altogether, officially changed my party affiliation to unaffiliated, cancelled NPR, didn't renew the Nation, wrote many scathing email responses back to fundraising or action emails from MoveOn, WNYC, Eric Schneidermann (who I like), the DNC, etc. Instead I donated to WBAI, Socialist Alternative (Kshama Sawant) and will to The Young Turks, BestoftheLeft podcast, Counterpunch, Truthdig, etc. As others have said it is liberating.

It feels vindicating in some ways to have been on this path for some time, having jettisoned cable tv and daily newspapers for years, to know now that my instincts were right on. To be betrayed by those you thought were fighting with you for the right things is an epiphany.

One of the biggest votes we have, if not the most powerful, is how we choose to spend our money. I've thought for a long time of how my purchases should support small and local businesses over corporate chains, and be toward those who are doing the right thing environmentally, politically and socially, and so forth. I'm taking that philosophy to the next level now. For a lot of this to me there's no turning back.

Dead on, NPK, there's an existential crisis when it's clear the whole process in its current state is rigged and broken. We can no longer in good conscience have fealty to it.

big differences on social policy, however, the differences on economic and foreign policy are muted -- even more so with a candidate like Clinton.

Really struck by the degree of distance and self-preservation between the political and media establishment. You can see it here in the U.S., but a parallel case is playing out in the UK right now too. The elites are largely insulated from the consequences of their decisions -- Iraq, and financial crisis -- have been touchstones. Zero accountability. In both cases, other people stuck with the bag and paid the price. For 99.99 percent of the population if we had those monumental screw-ups there wouldn't be promotions and more rewards. It's a measure of the massive disconnect between the 0.01 and everyone else -- the sense of entitlement is pretty remarkable.

In Markos's case he was outside the gates looking in in 2004. But now he comes across as part of the Clinton's PR machinery.

And they have a lot;

The Clinton money machine detailed: $3 billion and counting

On the one hand I think they'd want to go for it, spending so much time begging for donations can't be much fun. OTOH, I think they'd hate competing on a level playing field.

One solution, for those who haven't heard, is Wolf-PAC.com, TYT's proposal.

but this is actually a somewhat good rant! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/06/29/1543634/-The-primary-is-over-Wh...

OK, snotty about us, but he's objecting to a diary from yesterday or the day before that said "Bernie is delusional and a mean SOB". Yes, Kos ranted against this! This is one of the diaries where I commented that even Hillary would not want people smearing Bern and his supporters this way, this is no way to achieve unity. I admit, I am pleased.

It doesn't make up for the rest of his rants, or even the rest of this one. But I prefer Bern being ignored to being smeared.

For all of you who do keep going to DKos and fighting, that's how I found this site and Common Dreams. People are seeing you.☺

I first saw Tim Black when he was a guest on the Drunken Peasants podcast. Seemed like a cool guy back then, but I never followed his channel. Good to see he's still going, and hope he can get a louder voice and a larger audience in terms of news channels.

He can go rig the election for her. She will not be getting my vote. I won't even be a Democrat by the time the election rolls around, and if being a progressive means falling in line, I'll leave that behind, too.

He has radically overestimated the number of fucks I give about his opinion.