I sure hope the BoBs and Greens and the rest of the alt-left are happy!

[democrank]

164. IF I may......

I just learned I'm part of the "Alt-Left" who are, in at least one reply here, "shitbags", a term apparently given to anyone who was not a Hillary supporter from the very first moment she declared her candidacy. This sounds like the kind of crap Karl Rove used to toss around during the Junior Bush years every time he detected even a hint of someone not walking the party line. Many DUers were offended by Rove's tactics back then and I'm offended by these "shitbag" tactics now.

Both my late other half, a Vietnam Vet, and I were solid Bernie backers. We deeply appreciated Bernie's long-standing support for veterans' issues and we agreed with his call for real change. The very first bumper sticker ( in 73 years) that my Vet put on his vehicle read .......BERNIE, 2016. As far as I'm concerned, this man who fought for his country and died from the results of Agent Orange, had the right to vote for Bernie....or anyone else he chose.

When the time came, I voted for Hillary Clinton, even though I wanted to write in Bernie's name for my other half, who never did get the chance to vote.

Now we have to move forward together and address something we can't blame on Bernie....our CONTINUING losses in the House, Senate, governorships and red states. There are reasons for those losses and we'd better face it. From my point of view, the solution isn't to continue to do the same things in the same way with the same people......and expect different results.