The Bernie Bashing is so counterproductive.

[herding cats]

74. The thing is, everyone matters.

You, me and everyone under our umbrella. When someone starts trying to make that umbrella no longer cover some, they're naturally going to decry being left out in the elements. We can't blame them for that.

That's the problem with our style of Democracy and being so inclusive, it means we have to compromise at some point while we work to change the minds of society.

For what it's worth, I think we've been advancing our social agenda until this last election in society in general. Now we're going backwards again, and we'll have to fight old battles to regain ground we already held. Personally, I can't believe we have to go back and fight some of these battles again, not after all these decades of hard work. I never expected to have to be knocked back potentially decades, ever. It's as if all the hard work of my youth is nullified, and my middle age will now be more of the same. 30 years wasted, and all there is to show for it is people bickering meaningless semantics on the internet to make them feel relevant, and/or important.

Personally, I'm deeply depressed by this turn of events. I feel stripped of my voice and compartmentalized.