I used to care about the Democratic Party, but it's not the Democratic Party anymore. I used to care about elections, but there aren't elections anymore. I used to care about America, but this isn't America anymore. I've seen the greater evil fascists nominate a con man in Cleveland and the lesser evil fascists nominate a fraud in Philadelphia, I've seen the corporate media hammering the sky apart with their propaganda, hammering it apart as the stars stagger across the dark roof of this world and Sanders stumbles back to Vermont with what's left of his credibility.

People are crazy and times are strange,
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range,
I used to care, but things have changed . . .

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You know how it feels, I know how it feels, every progressive knows how it feels to be demonized by the Republicans, to be demonized by the Democrats, to be the target of their contempt and coercion and condescension, to be cursed and condemned and convicted by two-party-system criminals . . .

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose,
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose . . .

There are times when a minute can feel like an eternity.

This is one of those times.

We supported the Vietnam protests, we supported the Iraq War protests, we supported the Occupy Wall Street protests. We've supported the Madison protests and the Moral Mondays protests, we supported the G7 and the G8 and the G20 protests, we poured our hearts and souls into the campaign of a 74-year-old protester, and now that campaign has come and gone . . .

Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too,
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through . . .

Bernie gave it a shot, but he's done now. A Future To Believe In has been cancelled and global warming is heading this way to gather us all up in its burning arms . . .

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Stronger Together, my ass.

A Future To Burn In Together should be the Democratic Party's campaign slogan.

How much more idiocy are we supposed to tolerate? How many more injustices, how many more outrages, how many more dead fathers, how many more dead mothers, how many more dead children? When are the police of the Powers That Be going to say, "Mama, take this badge off of me, I can't use it anymore.". How much innocent blood has to be on their hands before they finally say it? When are the soldiers of the war machine going to say, "Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore." How much innocent blood has to be on their hands before they finally say it?

They might not ever say it, they like their paychecks.

But the political revolution will go on, it will go on because of them, it will go on because of the criminals who control them, it will go on because we hear the voices of the working poor, the voices of the exploited, the voices of the homeless and the hungry and the heartbroken, we hear the voices of millions in despair damn near everywhere because there's always a Hillary, there's always a Trump, there's always a Putin and a Cameron and an Assad, and they're always a curse, all they ever do is make everything worse, and I'm here to tell you, the ghosts of the past are here to tell you, the Truth itself is here to tell you . . .

FUCK THEM ALL.

We hear the voices of their victims, we hear the voices of every one of their victims . . .

"Mama wipe these tears off of my face,
I can't see through them anymore,
Get me out of here,
Into some other place,
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

I don't know if God is on the other side of that door, I don't know if Allah is on the other side of it, I don't know if anyone at all is on the other side of it, but that isn't the door we need to open. The doors we need to open are here on this earth, the doors we need to break down are the doors of the corporations, the doors of the bankers, the doors of the scheming lobbyists and lying generals and corrupt politicians in every capital city in this world.

BREAK. THEM. DOWN.