Elizabeth Warren BLASTS Wall Street SWEETHEART DEAL In Spending Bill

[RiverNoord]

42. Apparently you have a very particular perspective on 'us.'

Even people who strongly favor a particular political party should not be required to vote for every candidate for office that the party selects in order to be legitimate supporters of the party.

That simply yields control of the party to the big power brokers. They steer the selection of candidates and the rank and file suckers take what they're given. It leads to carefully calculated 'centrism' in our political candidates.

Frankly, I've already decided that, if Clinton is the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 2016, I won't vote for her. It would be the first time in my life that I did not vote for the Democratic candidate for the office (and I sure as hell won't vote Republican). I don't like political dynasties and I think that most of her public behavior for many, many years has been carefully managed so as to avoid controversy and make all the right friends. Less of a human being than a political machine. And her (carefully) declared views on foreign and economic policy bring her much closer to the Republican than the Democratic party. At least the Democratic party I have voted for all of my life.

The fact that I and many others have made a decision like this should be considered very carefully by people like you who will vote for whomever the Democratic party selects. It would be wise to accept and understand that this will be a factor in a general election, and incorporate this into your decision-making process, rather than berating people for making their own, perfectly valid, decisions.