"protesting that he won" crowd will most likely even protest when (if) he does something good. They are that blind.

While I prefer that a new party is formed, it would still behoove us (I think) to have the Democrats as a third party. Although, that may be redundant as there is already a party whose whole platform has been built on assisting the wealthy. I don't think that "genteel" rhetoric makes enough difference between the two.

The fucking Democrats are losers. All they've done since Bill Clinton sold the party to wall street is lose voters, states, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and the now the WH. This is enough of a bitch.

I am all over my FB and Twitter blaming and calling out Dem leadership and my superdelegates. Everybody should be doing something to create chaos up there and not just sitting on their asses snarking and complaining.

Disclaimer. This is not personal to you or anyone else on this blog. My point is, do something.

Edit: I am all over their FB and Twitter bitching them out. I am not on my page spitting into the wind.

that corporate dems are the problem, so the timing of this effort to oust Schumer is good.

Bernie knows the power of perseverance.
The way he was treated by those that should have had his back (I am calling out you CBC and HRC {Human Rights Campaign} and unions of all strips) would have broke a lesser human, it certainly broke my heart, but the dude still keeps going.

Bernie knows the power of perseverance.
The way he was treated by those that should have had his back (I am calling out you CBC and HRC {Human Rights Campaign} and unions of all strips) would have broke a lesser human, it certainly broke my heart, but the dude still keeps going.

Give the guy a break. I've heard he's preparing to lead the Dems into pitched battle: word has it he's stocking up on the finest stationery for the essential Sternly Worded Letters as well as hauling in loads of desiccant so that Democratic powder will continue to be the driest on the planet. The GOP is probably shaking in their Guccis.

A metaphor meaning to destroy wetlands seems inappropriate. Maybe "lancing the boil" or "cleaning out the cat box" would be better?

Wrote a mass email to a bunch of friends laying this and a few other things out in an effort to get people to stop being led by the nose by the corporate media so they can see what just happened and what is really going on.

subj: Understanding where we are.

You can believe what you want to believe, and do what you want to now.

But to me the only way to begin understanding what just happened is to start by turning off all corporate mainstream media, including CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, etc. They've been lying and obfuscating the whole time, relying on paid partisan pundits, unreliable polling and an unprecedented unified press. First in non-stop coverage of Trump's every move and then relentless fear-mongering in attempting to prop up the horrible candidate Clinton. There was no discussion about the shitty for-profit healthcare system run by greedy insurance companies, or the staggering student debt crisis, or how the Economic Terrorists of Wall St continue to game the system and put the onus on the middle and working class to pick up the check, while we descend further and further into a feudal system of pacified and obedient serfs, with cellphones "that can make pancakes and rub our balls," as George Carlin said. This election season in my view completely discredited the mainstream media.

Next, getting the fuck away from the cesspool of fear-mongering and mud-slinging on social media might be difficult for many. But once you do you'll see how much better you feel and clearer you see the world. Facebook had such great potential but years ago I began to see it as the Great Missed Opportunity in the social media age. Instead of folks seizing the platform as a format for dissenting voices which were drowned out, maligned and ignored by the corporate media, it manifested into mostly an avalanche of embarrassing self-aggrandizement and frivolous distraction, save the occasional reuniting of a long lost friend. Everyone got lost in the myopic mire of creating one's own self-important media profile that consisted of broadcasting select parts of their personal lives, pandering for "likes" by their "friends." Meanwhile, all the data is being mined by the both marketing companies and the surveillance state for nefarious profit and control. We willingly give up personal details of our lives to be dissected by all the wrong people. And the pillaging keeps apace on Wall St and Corporate America, and because they pay for the campaigns of our elected officials DC is chronically dysfunctional and a revolving door of greedy self-interest. We're stuck in the morass of an era of bloviating bullshit with no one prepared to actually stand up in public to do anything about it. Are you hearing me yet?

Unwittingly we repeat the divide and conquer corporate propaganda we see in the "news" and disseminate it like lapdogs on our "walls" and at the water coolers at the office. Time to re-think the whole thing.

I've got good and bad news for you. The good news is the 99% is not as divided as we're led to believe by the discredited lapdog media. There is a budding coalition of people on both sides who sense the false paradigm of red/blue duopoly. We're sick of the establishment political and financial elites who have been using the government to pillage us over and over. It's there to be coalesced. But we have to keep our eyes on the target of what the real problem is.

And for those who are sleepless about Fascism coming to America. Well, I've got bad news for you. It's already firmly entrenched here, and has been for decades. It just has had the more benign face of Neoliberalism. But it's the same nexus of power between Big Business and the Global Financial Elites in conjunction with the Military Industrial Complex and an authoritarian police force that kills minorities and crushes dissent with impunity. Don't get me wrong. I have a vitriolic loathing of Drumpf, but he's not Mussolini or Hitler. He's more like his Italian buffoon counterpart Silvio Berlusconi. RW racists and bigots have existed at the highest levels of gov't in this country for many years. That's not something to take lightly, but it's the truth. This one is just out in the open. I've heard many minorities say this isn't an aberration, but that it's better to know exactly where somebody stands instead of the dog whistles perfected by the propagandists in the Republican Party. As I've been saying all along, it's time once and for all that we stand up now and act together and stand in solidarity with the marginalized and dispossessed.

It's up to the 99% to get on the same page now. Our elected officials don't have our best interest at heart, whether they have a red or blue jersey on. Rational, clear-eyed, intelligent, dissenting voices are out there aplenty. But we're not looking for them.

These three articles really say much of what I think about this moment:

Attached at the end the Greenwald piece, Thomas Frank and the Matt Stoller piece in the Atlantic, "How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul."

And ended with the cherry on top, which just for good measure let's put in this thread (and maybe every thread going forward because it is that good and we should make sure every single person sees it!):

it's going just as I thought it would, particularly here.