I know this is really just preaching to the choir but I just need to share this because I can say here what I cannot say at GOS or FB.

I will never vote for Hillary. No one could pay me enough to do it. There is no carrot that she and her crew could possibly hold out that would get me to follow and no stick painful enough to goad me into it.

It amazes me how people can willingly overlook the cheating and lies because of whatever. At one point I believed that if the superdelegates and the DNC were truly interested in winning against Trump, they would have backed Bernie. Now I think differently. I think that they believe they have this in the bag, barring a major upset.

Consider this. What if Trump truly is just a plant? If that is the case, expect him to throw it for Hillary. The debates seem to indicate that he is trying to do this. Now what if Trump is actually serious? In that scenario, Hillary will have the full backing of the neocon vote stealing machinations.

Either way, we end up with Hillary.

Now that I have expressed my gloom and doom, here is my hope.

Years ago in the run up to Obama's first term, many were concerned about the possibility of McCain winning because the election would be stolen, just like in 2000 and 2004. The main solution I heard was that we had to vote in such large numbers that it wouldn't even be close. If it isn't close, then they can't steal it because they would have to flip too many votes. It would be too obvious.

My feeling has always been that this is not the best way to overcome a broken election system but, at this point in time, that may be the only option we have. The trouble is, we would have to get enough people voting for Jill to affect the outcome in November.

Voting for Jill in massive numbers might not cause her to win but it could very well cause Hillary to lose. I believe that Hillary losing is the only way that we can move forward. This movement has to grow or else we are screwed.

Now consider what Bernie did. I think that if he had decided to run third party, the movement ultimately would have run out of steam. If he ran and won, too many would probably do the same thing we did when Obama won in 2008; sit back and trust that we were on our way to better government. Perhaps Bernie would not have forgotten us if he won but a truly progressive movement needs more than one leader to grow. When movements are too dependent on a leader, they inevitably fade when the leader is no longer there.

I want to believe that by doing what he did, he understood that his supporters anger would be what is needed to grow the movement for real. He basically fell on his sword to allow us to feel the true burn.

We have been cheated, lied to and they are now attempting to misdirect us. We can't fall for it.

A few months ago, I heard Jill Stein say that there are enough millenials to make a difference in the outcome of the election in November if we can just get them out to vote. I believe that is true. Add in all the non-millenials who are "mad as hell' and not willing to take it anymore, and you have the possibility of a major upset.

Finally, now that Wikileaks is releasing the emails it seems that the early DNC leak was to give them a chance to show their true colors. Mr. Assange is not an American but I think the Democratic party was being given a chance to give Bernie the nod. If they had turned to support Bernie after the DNC leak, the rest of the emails would probably not come out until after Trump was defeated. Note what I said. I believe the current release of emails was going to happen regardless; it was just a matter of timing.

Of course Democratic insider hubris wouldn't let them do the right thing so now the next leaks may very well be the ones that ruin Hillary. Each new release is more damaging than the last one. With the latest release showing that Obama knew about Hillary's server when he claimed he didn't, I think this is building up to a finale that will change the Democratic party forever.

You can just smell their desperation with each release. The attempts to obscure the truth and misdirect us are amazing. Every time they come up with a new excuse, I laugh. The one thing they haven't really done is deny that the emails are true. There have been some half-assed attempts to say they have been altered but when everyone is not hewing to that message, it becomes obvious that the reason for this is that the emails are true and unaltered.

I hope we are able to take advantage of these releases and support Jill Stein and all down ballot true progressives vigorously! At the very least, we need to do whatever we can to ensure that Hillary loses.

We can survive four years of Trump. I sincerely doubt the same can be said of four years of Billary 3.0.

This has been the most vocal I have been ever. It's all because I don't feel like I am going to be jumped on and ridiculed here. I always felt that at GOS which resulted in me not publishing many diaries. I will probably be quiet for a while now but it is nice to know that I have a place to share my voice.