that it surely must depend on where you live. Where you are, is it predominantly blue? That's the only thing I can figure, I'm in the middle of the north Florida red zone....

When the Primary was over I wrote a mass email to maybe 60 friends representing all parts of my life. Explained why in no uncertain terms I would not be voting for HRC, reminded folks of all my (and most of their) misgivings of her and empathically said this represented the end of my involvement with electoral politics, for which Bernie represented a last ditch return after Obama sold me out as a volunteer who traveled to four States for him.

I heard back from two friends who early on during the primary answered my invitations to either phone bank for Bernie or attend rallies. One said his belief in Bernie compelled him for the first time in his life to volunteer. He was at the opening of the Brooklyn office and was prepared to honor the request to go out from the event and canvass locally for Bernie. I was amazed and encouraged to see and hear this childhood friend's enthusiasm. When we parted we agreed to get together to canvass together if time permitted. He answered my aforementioned email with a sheepish one sentence that ended with ", but..."

Another met me down at Zuccotti Park where OWS activists and campaign operatives were hosting a Bernie phone bank. Was pretty well-attended and in the cold early Spring air we sat outside, invigorated with the history of the radical spirit of Occupy flowing through the assembled, and made calls to specific states. It was that day that I had a half hour conversation with a lukewarm Hillary supporter in Florida, who got her information from the MSM but who when challenged to go deeper showed, as most do, a socialist spirit based on fairness, equality and universal humanity. My friend also wrote a reply saying something like Bernie is voting for HRC.

One of the most disconcerting was an Occupy activist who was hands down one of the brightest and most cogent thinkers I had met in the course of meeting so many likewise brilliant folks participating in that movement. He and his girlfriend, another activist, came over to visit our baby for the first time recently. I could not believe him putting forth this gotta-beat-Trump malarkey. Said he didn't think the election was stolen, and when I talked Jill up his stance was that she has no governing experience. I was agape.

I have two old best friends I've known for a very long time and consider like family. Haven't talked much to them lately, especially the one who in the 80's fancied himself a small-time real state magnate. He had maybe 5 books in his whole house, 3 were Trump's. His life spirit is great, he's extremely funny and an amazing guitarist, We never talked politics when we were younger, and in the past few years when we do he's appeared to me to be a weird mix of Libertarian, RW fiscal conservative, socially progressive bizarrely, basically he's out for himself but doesn't realize how even RW small guvmint and grandstanding about saving small business is all a lie. I'm off FB for a while now, but the other friend told me he posted some crazy RW fascist point that anyone who burns or defaces the American flag should be imprisoned, while casting aspersions on Kaepernick. I told my friend that if I had time I would take my infant son out into the park, dressed in a #7 San Fran jersey and have him holding the lighter as I lit up the stars and stripes especially for him. For that comment, the other friend replied "this is why I love you." But our last conversation, which are always these great, intense, impassioned debates (he's a lawyer with 5 kids), mostly centered around stopping Trump. (face palm)

It goes on and on like this. Friends, musicians, who I work with all filled with and spouting this great FEAR. What if Trump gets in? You were wrong about Trump not being able to get the nomination (I held out to the end that the inner Repug cabal, which probably doesn't exist, would not accept it and act to sink him). Do you have any idea what a revolution really means, one said, whose girlfriend is from Russia and who admitted to me that her great grandparents were involved in the bloody revolution there. None of these MFers (I say affectionately) are getting the real news, have really got a handle on how deep and interconnected all the transgressions, corruption and influence-peddling the Clintons are actively participating in, and moreover just how transparent this makes our vaunted democracy, that it more than ever before can not be ignored as a playground for the oligarchy, the reason for the Revolving Door in DC and the reason why the 99% is completely utterly ignored because the looting and pillaging must continue, according to their donors who call the shots on everything.

Best thing I've heard contrary to all this mind-numbing, contemptuous garbage from people I love and respect was pausing at the entrance of the club I work at to talk with the bouncer and his friend. Two young black dudes, I overheard, going off on how they don't like Hillary. One told me he bought a t-shirt that said "Panderer" with a picture of her on it. The other one said something similar.

Still see more Bernie stickers here, though there's an ever so slight uptick now that it's only days away from this heinous election, of HRC stickers around here. In fact, up until a couple of weeks ago, folks in my neighborhood still had their Bernie campaign signs in their windows and on their lawns!

I'm still holding out on getting in touch with one big Bernie musician friend of mine who joined me very early on to march in that amazing Bernie march organized outside of the campaign by folks purely moved by his searing truth-telling and progressive platform program. If he's "With Her" now I'm going to lose it.

I'll say this: there's many deep academic studies waiting to be written about this pathetic epoch in American history, specifically the powerful effects of propaganda, how the MSM and social media was co-opted by paid operatives, the degree to which the complicit and lapdog media created this beneficial scenario for Hillary and conspired to bring down Bernie, and the voter suppression and electoral fraud in the Dem Primary.

My Bernie supporter friends are not voting HRC except one. I hope she changes her mind, but she lives in a retirement community that is insanely for Trump, so her perspective is different. When I saw her last I said that I respect her opinion, but I can't vote for HRC because I watched the primary being stolen in real time, and that I am done with war. And climate change of course.

…who now support Hillary — are they broad-sprectrum, feel-good "Liberals?"

At least, my three closest friends (all former Sanders enthusiasts) will vote for her...

Are they actively fighting for specific Issues? Or are they generally Party "Democrats?"

Do any of them stand on the hard anti-war "Left?"

What do you think their number one priority is — what "Progressive" achievement do they expect to see enacted because they voted for Hillary?

Best decision to date.

gave away my last TVs before digital.
I house sat for a week last winter for some friends and turned on their TV. There were some new talking heads, the ones still there were a lot older under the pancake makeup, but the non-stop lies were the same. The commercials were just as dreadful as they used to be, no progress at all.
On the other hand, one channel carried reruns of Bonanza. That Ben Cartwright, he always had the situation under control.

Something no longer assumed from gov. here, toward its compliant taxpayers, its semi-ferals or most nations of the world.

...no matter which despised and laid-bare candidate wins the election.

It will be bad right up until the inauguration. I pity the winner because the smears and dirt digging will be even louder and more outrageous. Because Hillary is so politically dirty, and there is so much evidence, there will be half a dozen impeachment briefs awaiting her arrival. She wiggled out of any criminal charges, but the road to impeachment is more like a civil suit with endless discovery and surprise witnesses.

The world will see her as tainted and damaged and rejected. Ugh. Other leaders won't want to get too close or invite her to dinner. They'll be much more comfortable dealing with John Bolton or whatever Neocon she appoints as Secretary of State. Wait. For sure she'll appoint one of her demented sisters, probably uber-Neocon Samantha Powers. It will be a happy day at the UN when that mean piece of bad news leaves.

Trump doesn't have any political dirt to dig up, so if he wins it's a different story. The character assassination is pretty played out, and no one to pay for it after the Democratic Party crumbles and the Party Tools slink off into the night to work on their books. But even in victory, Trump would do something before the inauguration to make people crazy. I bet he tries to fire Pence and hire Kaine. Or Boehner.

Yr friend,

Pluto

Nuland, she thinks she's got to out-kill the male presidents in our past in order to prove she's one of the 'guys', and worst of all is her track record of incompetence and ignorance. She's a freaking Clinton for goodness sake. She's going to screw the country over while padding her own nest like her hubby and Obama did. Thing is, if she messes with Russia, all the nest padding in the world might be pointless. There might not be a nest (or a country to go with it) to pad when she's done.