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In reply to the discussion: Violence Erupts At NV Democratic Convention Amid Tensions Between Clinton And Sanders Supporters [View all]liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)I think what we're seeing manifest within the Democratic Party has been a long time coming. The Sanders folks had just a hint of what Democrats should be like. And we're not at all happy, not just with the Party establishment, and their manipulations, their bias for the corporate Hillary. We're not real happy with Democratic voters, that time and again, pick the corporate candidate.
I think a lot of us are at this point where we're willing to just vote for whomever we think is best. I've always asked the no-voters what is the path. And they rarely give me an answer. But I wonder if the answer is "Let the chaos come." "Let things get worse, and worse, and worse again, until the rich-guys prediction of pitchforks, and tar and feathers, perhaps worse, begins to happen to the richest in this country, those who bar the door against a minimal live for tens of millions, as they prance into their mansions, with gilded ceilings, financed on the misery of the "rabble."
Perhaps the most obvious sign is nearly half of the party (hard to tell, with electoral manipulation, and how many truly support Sanders in caucus states he won huge) is in full-on revolt against the corporate shill.
In fact, the battle is almost as ferocious between factions of the Democratic party, as it is between "crooked Hillary" and "Detestable Donald." Perhaps more so.
You've ignored your own financial lives dropping, as inevitably happens when you sweep the legs out-from-under the lower classes, when you chop away Welfare programs, when you lower food-stamp programs, when you cooperate with Republicans because you "know how to get things done by working with Republicans," as Hillary is known to say. Because you've still got enough--right now you have a job, it makes an adequate wage for you--so you choose the corporate Democrat, ignoring all those beneath you. That's on you upper-crust Democrats, that's on you. There is more to this party that gays, guns, and abortion--or at least there should be. We've lost our soul.