So let me get this straight,

[ancianita]

87. I hear you and appreciate your elaborating on your OP. It's probably our lot as liberals to deal

with the worst of our party, and we've fought them for decades. The turn left, as I've come to see it over those decades, is a long, hard one.

I can't say that you should be happy about our voting choices. I've been bitching about party leadership -- Schumer, the Clintons, Wasserman-Schultz and the rest -- for years.

But a couple things you should know are that, first, you are in a sizable majority of this party, the part that, with the help of Warren and Sanders, can get newer, lefter planks in the party platform. Evolutionary pace, yes, but still necessary.

Second, there is the larger moral issues at stake that you stand in company with. To disengage from a process others still fight and die for a chance to do, is regressive, not progressive. I believe that you will, for the long game, vote because you can. You'll vote for all the women and girls you know, knowing how hard it's been for that, and because your daughter needs a good example of someone making effort for other voters, if not for moneyed interests or representation.

Vote because of SCOTUS. For all the daughters, the Supreme Court. It is that simple for women. You and all women will have to live by what they rule. In that sense the party appointments are NOT the same.

You know that many of us tend to deny it, but there really IS a difference in the rules the two parties make. You can help put the ones in who make rulings you are comfortable with.

We know the deal. Even if your heart's not in it. But we're with you, seriously.
Vote anyway. The consequences are felt long after we can't see what they will be. We've already experienced the good of it. We need to carry on with more faith in each other.

(And I want Democrats, good bad and ugly!)

Anyway, thanks for your response.