Been an active Democrat for over 50 years. Stumped for JFK and the first Gov. Brown in California in 1960 when I was 16!
I have seen MY PARTY decline and decline and decline, into war and into Reaganism (let's be honest) ever since.
I think my turning point was about a week ago, when Barbara Boxer endorsed Clinton. Gone Corporatist. Gone warmonger. Clinton voted for the Iraq War, for godssakes! And she also made the disaster in ME worse as Sec of State! And Boxer--whom I've voted for I don't know how many times--is endorsing this corrupt liar!
PHONY Democrats. Even Boxer! They are all dependent on Corporate and War Profiteer money--just about every "liberal" Democrat we've voted for and worked so hard to put into office!
In addition, they're going to LOSE US THIS ELECTION! They DON'T WANT the in-put of the people. They've made that very clear. Almost nobody voted in SC--a 12.5% Dem turnout. That is disgraceful. In reality, Clinton lost SC tonight. It's ludicrous that the corpo-fascist media is treating it like a coronation. As unimportant as SC is in the the General Election--as a low population, rightwing state with only a few electoral votes--it is a dire harbinger of Clinton's UNPOPULARITY, which has been showing up all throughout February in national polls. Her trustworthiness and favorability numbers are in the toilet, while Sanders' are just the opposite, very high. Sanders beats every Republican. She does not.
Yeah, it's early days for national polls, but combined with the shocking turnout in SC, a Clinton stronghold (stranglehold?), and other very serious problems (like the FBI investigating her) and corruption everywhere you look in her life and career, we, as Democrats, are going to get stomped on in November.
But that is not the worst of it for me. She and her cronies in the Democratic Party establishment have become traitors to every principle of economic fairness and political democracy that this Party has ever stood for. They are an Oligarchy! And most of them, starting with the Clintons, have made themselves rich by selling our democracy to the highest bidders.
Clinton will crumble up against this "maverick" sort of person, Trump, who can claim to be independent of everybody because he is a billionaire in his own right. So we go from the Democratic Oligarchy to an outright fascist who has no allegiance to anybody. That will be his "selling" point, and our party will have nothing to counter it with, unless we can get Bernie Sanders nominated. Then independence of a very different kind--the independence of honest advocacy for the people on the basis of NO BILLIONAIRE OR CORPORATE OR WAR PROFITEER MONEY--will be the counter, and I do believe it will win. Indeed, I think that our people are hungry for a real, damn-your-eyes captain of our ship of state, acting in OUR interest. That is Bernie Sanders.
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