Enjoying your posts. I got the same email from MoveOn. I deleted mine too - after I shared a few choice words.

I got that same email from Warren and deleted it without reading. Probably the most disappointing thing about this entire primary process has been Warren. On the other hand, Merkley was a wonderful surprise.

I got my own plans too. They are for the young people who will follow me. My vote will be for them. They deserve to have at least one someone to look out for them.

to make the Democratic Party a part of the people is to install our candidate as president, vote up as many progressive Dems in the House and Senate as we can, and then work very hard to give Brand New Congress some teeth.

Now if that doesn't come to pass, I would like to see Bernie run and win under some other flag, support progressive candidates for House and Senate, and then work very hard to give BNC some real power.

But I'm open to suggestions.

...to have a candidate like Bernie to support. We still have a path. Narrow though it may be. An indictment or just a good release of Clinton dirty tricks would turn the tide. That's my hope. Take a peek here at the depth of the dirt:
http://www.thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Email_Scandal_Timeline

that place has been a total barfarama for weeks, if not months.

I managed to get through one of his speeches, by watching it in segments while riding my stationary bike, heh.

At least in that particular speech, the only people he insulted were the media, and establishment politicians. The speech was more conversationalist than anything, with the occasional policy issue thrown in from time to time. Was more entertaining than anything.

Initially I thought that economically I could find decent common ground, but as time has gone on, his policy stances have shifted toward the traditional Republican platform. This is probably the only area I do find some agreement on though, notably his anti-corporate free trade giveaway stance (I believe mild protectionism is a good thing) and his stance on carried interest and Wall St. in general.

Oddly enough on these issues I trust him more than Hillary, precisely because she is completely beholden to these interests. Trump is beholden to Trump, and I believe his belief is sincere that these issues have sold out the American people.

I cannot find much agreement elsewhere in his platform, aside from the fact that he used to be a Democrat and held different positions. I do agree with the notion that he knew exactly how to throw red meat to the Republican base in order to win the nomination, so I am unsure how near and dear these positions are to him, I can only say that I disagree with them. They are not really any worse than any other Republican candidate that I have seen, however.

All that out of the way, I too mostly just delete these anti-Trump campaigns for a couple reasons. First and foremost, they largely benefit Hillary. Only one candidate needs to show that they are the 'less terrible' candidate, and it isn't Bernie. Bernie doesn't need to be the anti-Trump candidate, he destroys Trump with a positive, issue-oriented campaign. Hillary is the anti-Trump candidate.

Further, I have always disliked fear-based campaigns, they are designed by nature to gather support via emotional response, which treats people like sheeple. Lastly, I believe in getting my own house in order before I go pointing fingers at others. I cannot in good conscience turn a blind eye to the corruption within the Democratic Party, we should be leading by example.

This is why I will likely be voting Green or write-in, depending on what happens by November. For me, the Democratic Party may be too damaged to reform/clean up.

then most of the fancy writers including the elite lefties out and about. After living through 2000-2016 nothing scares me about politics. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound, and fury signifying nothing" What scares me is what they have done to the world. Hard to ignore the sound and fury of politics while your living it. Forget about the Democratic/Republican breakdown it sucks. It's Chinatown, it's The Lady and the Tiger', it's Brazil. Sander's movement has moved it. The church of Bernie without Bernie will continue to build like a wave as that's what movement is about. Go Bernie

You would have offset the throngs flocking to Bonzo and enabling all this crap we now deal with.

will be taken down if either Trump or hrc are elected. Much faster if it is Trump. I didn't realize Liz was such a scaredy cat, which DKhaos folks are having orgasms over, which speaks volumes to me about her. I refuse to be driven by fear anymore, either. I'm 63 and I'm done.