that makes this election cycle so crazy and chaotic is Wikileaks.

Imagine if JA didn't leak anything. All of the filthy stuff that the Clinton campaign did would still have happened, but we wouldn't know about any of it. Any vague rumors or allegations would be called out as ridiculous CT, and vicious attacks on her integrity. The same slimy tactics would have promoted Trump in the primary, and squashed him in the general, and her Heinous would be POTUS, but we'd have no idea that it was all fraudulent.

Our current crop of elites can't stand the light that transparency conducts, they literally don't know how to function in a transparent environment, wherein their evil ruses and nasty plots are exposed. They've been playing these games for many years, what's different now is that we can see what they are doing. It's hilarious actually, the same people that have illegally forced the surveillance state upon the rest of us, suddenly cherish their privacy. A taste of their own medicine causes them outrage and panic.

If they have nothing to hide, there is nothing to be afraid of, right? Where have I heard that before...?

N/f

It is going to take a lot of work. And that is the reason I think so many of those suffering from the Hillarian pox could not find Sanders' platform palpable, or "doable". Forgive the yuppie speak, but Clinton is Grandma Yuppie after all.

Good friends and people I love and respect, have all become Pavlov's dogs barking in unison, "We Hafta Stop Trump."

It's a disorienting time, but we've had many. Like standing against the war-mongers just after 9/11. Or being a striking union worker in a small town in Pennsylvania lying in bed at night at the camp knowing any minute the Pinkerton thugs would be ready to ambush. Or a slave talking of insurrection while the passive in the flock just look the other way. Or

But moreover it's Lonely. That's the word that comes to me. When one is standing firm on one's convictions, amidst an overwhelming majority of usually pacified peasants turned into a panicked populace - yeah, it's lonely.

Bernie was Lonely, out on a limb. Even though he was surrounded my millions of adoring supporters everywhere he turned, when he got back to the deplorable halls of Washington he was seen as a pariah, who no one wanted to talk to or stand with.

MLK was intensely lonely, though exalted the world over for his deep humility, righteousness and compassion. So were/are Emma Goldman, Fred Hampton, Oscar Romero, John Brown, Dalton Trumbo, Paul Robeson, Big Bill Haywood, Bobby Sands, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange etc. Same for all the other great radical or revolutionary or just dissenters in the vanguard (as we are, and probably best describes Bernie too). Though they were each nourished by the righteousness of their cause and the awakened and uplifted spirits reflecting back at them from their supporters a heavy personal price was to be remitted. Life becomes a disorienting roller coaster ride of the great highs of sheer love from the disenfranchised and the ceaseless foreboding of always feeling hunted by the dark power of the PTB. It's Lonely.

Was listening to WBAI the morning with the infant as we usually do ad Amy had on the Indigo Girls, who had written an open letter to one of the owners of the DAPL, Kelcy Warren, who is both a big Republican donor and music fan (always freaks me out when passionate music fans turn out to be deep conservatives; the fundamentals are antithetical to me). They said they frequently play the music festival he presents but had no idea about his involvement in the DAPL.

One of the takeaways they seemed to have was an epiphany about paying closer attention to who's behind the gigs they are playing. Indeed, to me this is the linchpin, though a very tricky, going forward. Who are the owners of the companies we do business with everyday? From the most innocuous purchase, such as a pack of chewing gum or toilet paper (the paper product market is largely monopolized by the Koch Bros), to where you keep your money, which restaurants you eat in, which media you consume and which sports teams you buy tickets to (most sports owners are RW zealots). Who are their owners?

Just as I say this and know it is the right thing to do and can be a game changer I realize how difficult it is to navigate the terrain, doing all the groundwork to connect the dots of a vast and intricate web of deceptive corporate monopoly. There was an app developed after Occupy called "Buycott," which allowed a person to be able to scan the UPC code of any product to fins out who owns the company. Like those before us it seems an overwhelming challenge to impact the relentless grinding engine of unbridled capitalism and the free reign our bought and sold politicians give these plundering raiders. But there has to be a start on the individual level first.

It's a long, hard and lonely road, folks. I'm contemptuous as hell lately, and feel like I can hate everyday too, man. But if I don't refresh myself with all my antecedents who came before me and stood tall I'm liable to "lose my mind" and "go crazy" or "insane," as the rabble-rousing lead singer of one of my favorite bands growing up, Black Sabbath, Ozzy had frequently found himself singing:

Staying in that mode, because it feels so good sometimes, to me, to touch the despair and then start picking yourself up from there:

"A Hard Road"

I do love me some Sabbath!

Hang in there! you are like me, I have few who will see past the sheep run/lemming rush towards another election of LOTE.

I feel that I am lonely too. I am on staff at an Episcopal church. Each week we have a staff meeting-rector, deacon, secretary, finance person, parish nurse, the cranky (most of the time) choir director, and myself. I tell you, they all go to Nate Silver's site daily, and they are scared to death of Drumpf! Gotta vote Hillary!!! Oh my, some of the praises for her. Makes me sick! But I have to keep my mouth shut because I feel if I spoke the truth (believe me, I've tried), I would probably lose my job. No kidding. I don't even feel safe putting a homemade sign like "JillnotHill" on my back window. I am the youngest on staff and as far as I can tell they're all on FB and listening to MSM. I'm not on FB and the youngest on staff. I feel sorry for them at times. They're so brainwashed...

I almost wish Drumpf would win. But then, that's a different kind of scary lonely. Hell, it's all going to be scary!

has had the opposite effect on me ek. I now love everyone I previously hated. This new love does not include pols or their puppet masters. Maybe pity is the highest from of love, a truism I learned from that true book Ripley's Believe It or Not. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that said 'Were So Screwed 2016'. I think the level of hate has topped out among ordinary people who are not homicidal maniacs or religious zealot's preaching fear and loathing.

Could be that I just tuned the scatter shots of hate out as it was too loud. Loving or hating pols is a big waste of time and this includes Bernie and all your favorite celebrities and gutless pop stars. When the story line gets this bizarre and dark it can shake all the hate right out of you and leave you awe struck at the level of madness that human's are capable of inflicting on each other and the basic fabric of life on earth.

One good thing about this ' tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' is that people I know in real life are shedding their political delusions that caused them to blame, fear, and hate each other. They all seem united in agreeing 'Were all Screwed 2016". Even the Hillbot woman down the street who did not speak to me for about a year after I worked on Obama's campaign does not want to vote for Clinton. She read the damn e-mails. Extort the vote. Lot's of Black Lives Matter yard signs in my Lilly white 'liberal' neighborhood one I'm with Her and plenty of Giant Meteor bumper stickers. Gives me the hopies. It's up to us always was. Peace.