from Senator Sanders:

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22. All of those issues are certainly things we must fight...

And nowhere did I suggest that we shouldn't fight them. What I am saying is that we do such work that even in the face of those mountains, that we can overcome the obstacles in our path. Those voting tabulators didn't just come into effect in 2016...they've been hackable since their inception. Obama won in the face of that not once but twice and I truly believe that if we fight on that we can overcome them again.

As an aside, those voting machines will stay in place until we fight to elect Dems on the local level that will force that fight to the state to change things, the same goes for the atrocious voter suppression tactics. "All politics are local"...you and I know that. So let's start building a local grassroots movement to combat the overreach and try to turn the tide that we are facing. I may be a peon with no clue how to make that happen, but I'm willing to fight for it.

An aside to my aside...Ugh...I have this recurring dream about running for congress against Diane Black, my local Rep who has about as much connection to my local area as the sand on Vero Beach. I grew up here in this area of TN on my grandparents tobacco farm, went away for school and the military, but I've recently returned. As a child and teenager, my district was blue as you could get with Bart Gordon as my representative. The tea party shit on all of that. All I can do, and any of us for that matter, is fight for our local communities and pray that the DNC follows suit. Maybe one day I will run against Mrs Black...her mansion on the lake makes me sick every time I think about it.