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In reply to the discussion: If she's elected I fear she'll bomb something immediately to prove she's Tough Enough [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)in the US. The only times I missed were the years I lived overseas. I am a Democrat.
My parents were Democrats. My mother still is and I most definitely am. I am a strong supporter of my Democratic Representative. I will never vote for Dianne Feinstein again. I support Barbara Boxer. I support my local Democratic candidates.
But I have seen too much. I will not support another corporate Democrat. They stole the party from working people. They looked on as unions were destroyed. They blame the Koch Brrothers and the Republicans. But it was the inaction on the part of Democrats, their acquiescence to the values and ideas of the Extreme Right that destroyed the unions in this country.
And now we see the Obama administration, especially the Education Department aiming their rhetoric toward teachers' unions and other public employee unions.
I am not from Wisconsin. But Obama and Hillary were noticeably absent from the valiant struggle of the public employees of that state to maintain their union rights.
No. I will never again vote for a candidate who answers to and favors the right-wing corporate agenda. Never. California is not a swing state. If Hillary can't win here without my vote, she can't win the nation.