Editor's note: Inspired by yet another attempt to interject facts into the head of a hillbot that for some reason I still try to argue with, lord knows why.... And this article (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/20/the-corporate-liberal-in-america/)

And I am aware some of it is a bit of a rewording from my previous essay too on the topic. Everyone has their methods of therapy, mine seems to be putting these out there and a little virtual quill to paper.

Dear Democrat (slur intended) party members.

I get it, it's easier to whine about ALEC, bitch about the money in politics on their side (but never ours, we're the good guys), list all the heinous things done by repubs, and that will be done (I'm enjoying everyone telling me this week it'll be nukes and conversion therapy everywhere!) Because we have to stop them. This time it's too important, we promise next time we'll fight, next time it won't be the same, we just have to hold what we have now so we can make sure Democrats are held accountable later.

Always a next time, never a now, certainly never a good time to build a real 3rd party, we wouldn't want to be a spoiler...

To do so would intrude on the belief that Democrats are what we have to vote for, cause we don't have another choice, when we do be Stein, Johnson or that guy down the street wearing the holy colander if it floats your boat (Ra...men) if people had the balls to reach for it. Regardless, lets note things the things that shall not be named.

You want to talk to me about Russia being in cahoots with Trump and their influence on him and his politics.

But when many a middle eastern country directly lines the clinton foundations pockets, and Hillary's state department has sold more weapons to them than even during bush's terms?

You either don't care or you are silent.

You want to talk about Coal Ash in NC, and how we have to fight Pat on that and clean up this state and the corrupt practices of the NCGA?

But when the Democrats can't even mention fracking? when it again it has been Hillary Clinton selling this brand of toxic destruction across the world?

You either don't care or you are silent.

You want to talk about fighting the banks, breaking them up, and getting money out of politics, and how we need to overturn citizen's united.

When hillary's campaign directly benefited from it to the tune of 10 million from priorities USA, when major banks are some of her biggest donations, when she makes more from one still unreleased Goldman speech then I will see in years of work at my job...

Remind me again which party just refused to add a living wage tied to inflation to it's platform?

But again, you either don't care or you are silent.

Also remind me again, what is your basis of reasoning that Trump will appoint judges out to wreck everything, but Hillary and her VP pick who was backing the TPP one day before being chosen, of course will certainly appoint judges that will help us?

The blind zealotry and hypocrisy on that one alone speaks volumes.

When you spread the boogyman of Trump ushering in WWIII with the nukes off an unsourced rumor from Joe fricking Scarborough of all people, when you tell me Trump is gonna set the world ablaze.

But when it's pointed out lesser evil obama is now bombing a 4th middle east country (libya) using the flimsy one page excuse Bush had post 9/11 to start endless war without congress keeping it in check. When it was Hillary who pushed for the intervention in the first place, into a country where ISIS has now taken root thanks to the chaos and our own side in the fight committed some of the worst human rights abuses. And who is on file in leaked emails saying she's perfectly fine with seeing Syria burn and who knows which side we're on because it's going to hurt Iran and help Israel? When endless war just keeps a coming, when she helps foment unrest in the Ukraine, when she's supporting NATO ringing Russia, and starting a proxy war in Syria with them?

But Trump will usher in chaos?

Either way again, what are you? Not caring, or silent.

Somehow I don't think the families deported back to latin or south america, the ones we're bombing and maiming in the middle east, and the women plus minorities oppressed under the regimes in both we're backing, if not outright selling the bombs too would care much for your lesser evils theory, or be concerned about Trump as much as you are either.

When I'm told by you and yours Republicans are the enemy we must defeat, when team red has to be beaten at any cost, we can't trust a word they say because they're the evil ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/06/republicans-hillary-clin...

Any peeps from you? Of course not, cause Repub bad, Dem good. Those are the rules of the duality. I mean I'm sure Meg Whitman and the big money on the GOP side would have certainly comes out in support of Bernie..... and it's just a coincidence that *&%#!!($ PNAC! just happens to back a fellow warhawk. (https://theintercept.com/2016/07/25/robert-kagan-and-other-neocons-back-...)

But I'm the delusional one saying there's no difference.....

When you and others cheer the court cases in NC against voter ID, when you rail against laws pushed by the GOP disenfranchising the most important right we have. When you clamor against legal hoops, borderline poll taxes, etc.

But when that same fraud is perpetuated by your side across this country. When 100,000+ people are dropped from the NY rolls. When Bill Clinton's security blocks polling places and voters in MA. When the IA caucus is rigged from the start, to the point where even prominent Hillary supporters like James and Erin Bilbray call them on it. With Roberta Lange flat out refusing to even hear votes from the floor from Bernie supporters and ignoring overwhelming voice votes against her, then has the nerve with the help of the real sycophants in the corporate media to push the lies about violence and threats. When from state after stat we hear tales of registrations switched without consent, mysterious roll drops always seeming to benefit only one side, Hillary always doing best in any area with the least vote monitoring including where machines flunk hacking tests (let's note not a peep from the DNC about changing that either) Mathematically impossible exit poll results (but only on the dem side of course) that would have called for recounts from international monitors were it any other country. and my personal favorite, a god damn shredder truck parked outside a ballot location in CA caught on camera with boxes loaded into it.

But where are champions of virtue now?
Where did those saying they're fighting for us get off too?
Where are those like you telling me we're going to hold power accountable?
Where are those telling us how we have to fight for everyone to have the right to vote in a free and fair election?

NOT CARING AT ALL AND GOD DAMN SILENT!!!!!

For that one alone if none of the others you deserve a giant fuck you and the donkey you rode in on. Because that combined with the DNC leaks that show just how rigged this was with the party and the media against Bernie shows me again one simple truth.

You lack the morals to care about any of this from war on down, because of your fear, because we have to stop Trump, he's "Worse"

You lack the courage to actually fight for the things you claim to care about, when you settle for the very people who talk a good game but in the decades we've seen pass have become just as beholden to the money.

And you lack the integrity to hold true to that belief in the face of lesser evilism (which you can scream forever as well) Because you never take the time to ask the single big question behind it all. Even though again DNCleaks gave us a good chunk of the answer.

When the Democrats could have sewn this up months ago.

When they could have had a tidal wave of liberal force behind them.

When they could have sealed the deal with young voters for the next generation if not two.

When they had the momentum, the energy, and those ready to believe the system could be changed along with the will do actually get out there and do it. Like when Bernie had record donations coming in that showed as gods honest truth you could run a nationwide campaign without the PAC's and the corporation donations.

When they had someone who unlike Hillary blows Trump away in every poll out there, and at one point was even beating him in GA?

When they could have had someone who polled 100% in trust and honesty, and had the single highest favorbility rating of any candidate out there. While hillary this week was backwalking yet another lie about the FBI and her "damn emails"

When they in short had the dream candidate any party with half a brain would have killed for, who united every demographic under the sun from age, to race, to religion, and pulled in a majority of the independent vote every chance he got (the other holy grail of electoral victory)

Why. Didn't. They. Choose. Him?

Stop and think about that one for a minute... As you celebrate your victory. As you tell others this is what they have to vote for. As you settle once again. As you say we can't do better and it's too risky to try this time, because Trump is worse.

Lesser evils.....

And if you think again Im going to cave like Bernie did and reward this level of corruption with my vote, well I think we know how that goes now don't we? I think I'll listen to old Bernie, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uAvqnoAjII) and say my vote has not been earned. You can't have it, it's not for sale, and you aren't somehow entitled to it in the name of any god damn party.

Deal with it.

My gameplan? You think my plan involves winning? It doesn't. Full Joker Democrats, this isn't about winning anymore, it's about sending a message. (Hint: #Demexit) If Trump happens, look in the mirror to see the person to blame, look to your party driving those who could have helped it away, look at the corruption you enabled destroying the very causes you claim to champion.

Pity that message will be one still falling on deaf ears. And I'm fairly certain one you'll never understand till it's too late for a party that deserves to die anyway. So support your bought and sold corpse of a party if you want, let the movement you claim to give a damn about die inside it, continue to be your own worst enemy to actual progressive change if you feel like it, and WHEN Hillary turns on you if she wins, by all means keep bleating out four legs good two legs better like a good little member of the corporate controlled herd.

Not I, no more.

If nothing else I'm grateful to Old Bernie for exposing the lies and corruption before he surrendered to his new role of head sheepdog...ahem...head reformer from within. Pity you lack the conviction and principles to listen to that Bernie as you display the hypocrisy of loving Stop Trump Bernie. Now that his words fit your pretty little narrative.

And all the while you refuse to stand up against that corruption regardless of what the consequences might be.

You stay silent...

" He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Martin Luther King, Jr.