The one personal bright spot of a Clinton nomination and closing of actual debate

[Armstead]

I'll get more of my "real world" work done while DU is in campaign echo chamber mode and the Democrats pivot to plain vanilla policies and a Survivor style personality battle with Trump.

Will be less susceptable to the temptation of setting aside the professional tasks at hand and turning to DU "for a short break" and getting engaged so much.

There are advantages to numbing disinterest in a Presidential race, I guess.

[tonyt53]

1. Then sad to say, you really do not care about the country. It is all about "you".

[hellyall]

2. We have to survive. You probably don't.

But we do work, and many of us are still a paycheck from bankruptcy.

[Armstead]

5. I'm far from flush.

[rock]

4. +1

It's sad really.

[BillZBubb]

7. What's sad is we're going to nominate a lying candidate under FBI investigation.

[rock]

12. Nope, it's not

If she has committed a crime, she needs to be found out and if not, she needs to be cleared.

[BillZBubb]

6. Is that what you said to Hillary, cause that would be the truth!

[Armstead]

8. If it were all about me, i'd be a shiny happy Democrat not caring who leads the opposition to GOP

A lot easier to shake the pom poms and yell "Go Team Go" than worry about those pesky issues like survival of the middle and working classes and the poor, the purchase of politics and government by Big Bidness and Wall St. and the obscene concentration of wealth and power that is occurring...not to mention the prospect of PNAC style endless war...etc.

[bkkyosemite]

9. That's Hillary you are talking about in that last sentence ...you do know that right?

[Armstead]

10. The whole Democratic "Centrist" shabang in all those sentences

[msongs]

11. bernie will be back in the senate cheerfully voting to pay for the PNAC style endless war as usual

[Bluenorthwest]

13. If posting on DU = caring about the country and you joined DU on Apr 20, 2016 can we assume

that prior to a few short days ago you did not really care about the country?

[JudyM]

15. I'd laugh if this comment weren't a sobering symptom of something far more devastating to

society and the planet.

Not to mention the 30 day pattern seems to be insulting/biting everyone who has a different view rather than adding thoughtful substantive ideas to the discussion. I suppose you have to go with what you've got.

[pangaia]

27. That is YOUR opinion.

[HooptieWagon]

29. Or a script.

[azurnoir]

3. Pretty much but the internet is a very wide world too

as I have said DU started as a progressive site but has evolved out of that phase - all things change

[Sky Masterson]

14. Yeah, the minority here of Clinton supporters

can have a blast fooling themselves that everything is normal.
And I'll tune back in around November to see the sadness and panic when everything we tried to tell people about how much she is unliked comes to light. Of course Bernie supporters will be blamed for it. Kill the messenger.

[Lizzie Poppet]

18. Barring the party coming to its senses...

...I'll be taking a nice, long time-out...returning only to be a complete rhymes-with-witch to the worst of Camp Weathervane's smug, noxious jackasses after Hillary gets her head handed to her in the GE. In the unlikely event I don't get tombstoned, I'll still likely never return (which I'm sure will please more people than it annoys...even among the minority that even notice!).

[Duckhunter935]

19. 3-4 to leave

[Lizzie Poppet]

20. For people who are "winning," Camp Weathervane sure is touchy!

[pangaia]

28. I voted "leave."

No i didn't. I just made that up.

[TwilightZone]

16. "campaign echo chamber"

DU has been in campaign echo chamber mode for months. Just not the campaign you think.

[Armstead]

17. Quite contentious for an echo chamber

[alarimer]

21. I plan on checking out completely for this campaign

I'm done with politics, done with the Democratic Party completely. The DNC is thoroughly corrupt. It's completely hopeless. I don't even care who wins in November.

[geek tragedy]

22. Just make sure to avoid paying attention to Republicans and Trump

Obama's biggest donation night in 2008 was the Sarah Palin RNC speech.

[seabeyond]

24. Gosh, remember that Friday afternoon when he declared Palin VP? None of us knew who she was and

started researching. Massive amount of information on her within 3 hours. By then, I was laughing at the gift McCain gave us Democrats.

[geek tragedy]

25. it was funny--"Geraldine Quayle" when he announced her.

Terrifying when she gave her RNC speech.

[seabeyond]

23. Wow, so because your candidate didn't win, you are dumping on all that are working on getting

Clinton elected because we think a Democrat matters in the White House. And you are insulting, you know it, we all do. All because you and others didn't get the one you want. There is always the big picture, or one can be so self absorbed it really is all about them.

[pangaia]

30. Your take on what he said.

Mine is different.

[seabeyond]

31. That happens.

[BeyondGeography]

26. Whatever happens in life

we can usually fashion an upside for ourselves.

[peace13]

32. So true.

Over the past month I have been helping a young family member who was hit with a sudden divorce. We worked like dogs cleaning and painting. When it was all said and done the place was finished, ceiling to floor. We finished three bedrooms, one bath, family room and kitchen. The place was transformed. And as I worked I thought about DU and the frustration of having a predetermined winner here. How it impacted the behavior of people. I thought about the election, the process and how many Americans are totally out of the loop on just what is happening here! But as I was thinking I was accomplishing great things. It was a good feeling.

June 16th is my birthday so it is pretty ironic that that is also Hills liberation day. I am pretty sure that my focus will be elsewhere for the duration. If Hill is to be our selected leader there is a lot of work that won't be getting done for the less fortunate. I may as well keep working on fixable problems.