Hey, you sensible people... Why don't you just can it. Permanently.

[Maedhros]

94. I believe it is important to have expectations for our candidates,

and to hold them accountable when they fall short of them.

Responding with "Oh, well, they completely sold us out AGAIN - but if we pretend we don't notice, they won't do it NEXT time..." simply ensures that we will continually be thrown under the bus by the Party that claims to represent us.

Frightening us with the spectre of Republican control of government is the Democrat's version of the protection racket. The objective is to coerce voters into supporting a candidate that will work for Wall Street and not us. They know that they can pay lip service to liberal ideals during the campaign to lure the rubes into the tent, and immediately abandon those ideals once they've cast their votes and outlived their usefulness. We watched this exact scenario play out with Obama, and there is no reason to think Hillary won't do the same thing.

If we have any hope of changing the country for the better we have to look at the long term. We cannot be short-sighted, like most American corporations, and only consider the next quarterly earnings report or election cycle. Liberals and progressives need a Party what will actually pursue liberal and progressive agendas, rather than pay them lip service to shore up the base.

Hillary has already shown that she has thrown me under the bus with her vote on the IWR, her support of the TPP, and her role in destroying Libya. I don't want her to be President.