Been through some rough primary wars here. To me now, though, this one is different.

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50. I believe the quote goes: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

One might paraphrase it but the point seems made to me. I have been a Democrat all my life. I have watched the party trim its sails several times but never so severely as now.

The current party leadership wants to win at any cost. It has no soul. That may appear realistic from a certain point of view regarding how politics functions. I disagree.

I come from the party of the New Deal and the Great Society. I was raised to believe we cannot go forward unless we all go together. I have seen it demonstrated far too many times to ever doubt.

Whatever is before us in the election has yet to be defined. If we allow it to become one more choice of the lesser of evils all we will get will be that: evil. I say that we must insist this election becomes about the issues we were promised: Justice, Peace, economic sanity, a world we may all still inhabit (I desperately hope).

This is not some wishful thinking. I have seen all of this work and work very well. I am not expecting a socialist utopia. I am not a socialist. I do expect responsible adults to stand up and do what must be done. I have seen it work time and time again even though "conventional wisdom" deemed it was impossible. Impossible is the word they use when they do not wish to see everyone vote, or learn, or own a reasonable future. It is a term they use to define the line between them and the rest of us. It marks the border of privilege and the boundaries of hope.

If we allow cynicism to become our watchword then "they" have already won. We will either get a president who won't admit how bad things are getting, or one who will endeavor to make them far worse.

When they coined the term "the customer is always right" they meant the customer's needs must always be met. We must make those needs heard and respected or there will not only be no customers left there will be no firm either.

FDR once said if he didn't succeed as president he would be the last American President. We face no less a challenge now. If we do not elect a genuine Democrat to the office there will not be another one.