is when all the "down ballot" Dems begin to realize that they hitched their ride on a flawed candidate and begin to lose, same will be their fate in 2018. The powers that be will not care, but those who seek power under the Dem label sure will care. All the Dems currently holding onto their jobs by endorsing Shillary should have better long term vision...but they don't.

they will impeach her ass. First female President to get impeached. Way to go.

big tent party.

This is the one currently running around my head.

And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Scusi dov'è il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Who's the bald chap?"
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.

Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd

I always looked for your diaries on DK and am so pleased that I can still find your voice here. I continue to post on DK for all its worth that I will not vote for a corrupt candidate no matter what the consequences. Your list is spot on and unfortunately could be longer. On top of the problems with Hillary and the DNC, I continue to be drop jawed over the comments by Hillary supporters that basically throw all the positions that the Democratic Party has stood for for years under the proverbial bus. It is appalling! So that sure ain't my gang anymore!
Underneath my sadness over the probable win of Clinton is this excitement over the possibilities of positive change. Occupy, BLM, Democracy Spring etc. are happening outside the Democratic Party and are all signs of what is being stirred among those who have been left outside of the wealth and progress, but seem to be valuable only if we need to get into another war. If we as a country do not address this, we will see a repeat of the violence of the 60's, and won't that be a lovely sight to see outside Hillary's Oval Office window (or Trump's for that matter)? We NEVER learn from history, do we?

When you fully embrace evil, you're fucking EVIL.

Saddest part is they can't even seem to find joy in it. What's the point of being an evil person if you can't take gleeful delight in it, like the Rethugs and Corporate Slime?

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what next?

I'm not saying voting every really did matter. We all know it's been rigged and such. Clinton is one of the most corrupt people. Even her cheerleaders can't keep up with her lies.

We won't vote for Trump or Hillary because we don't vote Rapepublican in this house.

now that NY has spoken, I feel released. I am not sure of write-in or Green, but I am done with the D brand, it slid right from McGovern, my first presidential vote. Too much now. I never voted for Bill, maybe voted second senate run for Hillary (I can't remember), most def not her first, damn Carpetbagger. Those are not well-meaning people to me.

Ya know, I watched this map last night and I was having a really hard time.

Okay, early on it was obvious that she took NYC. But in the entire rest of the state I watched as county after county popped up a bright green - meaning Bernie had won them. In some of them, by large margins. In the end, out of the entire state of New York, she won 11 counties. There are a total of 62 of them in New York, and she only had 11. That means in 51 counties more people voted for Bernie than her. And he "lost" how?

Now I know she had all but one of the big population centers. But are they telling us that there are more people in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and the NYC metro area than in the entire rest of the state?

I've never watched a primary this closely before, so maybe I don't grok all the nuances. But look at that map. Point at the individual counties and check out the margin of the votes. Then 'splain to me how she strolled into the winner's circle.

Or does it have something to do with the AP calling it for her at 9:49 p.m. with only 35% of the vote counted?

I have been reading all these comments and I just have not had the strength of spirit to vent my outright anger. I appreciate what so many of you have posted because it captures what is in my heart right now. I had thought I would be writing in Bernie's name in the general, if Hillary gets the nomination. But now I am thinking that I may turn to the Green party. I have to think long and hard about this decision but it is now starting to make sense.

There is an enormous amount of anger out there that the establishment and their apologists are willfully ignoring. The youth of this country are so ready for a real change, not some faux caretaker government that continues to ignore the vast number of serious problems in this nation.

I am fearful that this will not end well. People are becoming desperate and desperate people have nothing to lose. This election offered a candidate who could save this country and give the people, particularly the young people, a future that they deserve but the greedy oligarchs do not have the foresight to save themselves and the rest of us from a very bleak future. I am truly in mourning.

about the strategy of holding your nose and voting for lousy candidates. The individual voter sacrifices all commitment to what their conscience is telling them to do in return for very lousy government. People do this in hopes of the next election being better, but they never are, why should they be? Until the politicians and money people get their asses handed to them, there's no change in sight.