You may have beaten us back with an assist from the corporate media, but ...,

[calimary]

75. As long as you're asking, Orrex...

I'd like very respectfully to offer this perspective. As a longtime Californian, it kinda stunned me to hear Bernie dismiss Jerry Brown as "establishment." That was insulting, and it seemed as though it was MEANT to be an insult, or a put-down, or some such.

I've been around long enough to have happily voted for Jerry Brown the FIRST two times he won the governorship here. It is, well, shall we say - bewildering - to imagine that ANYBODY would describe Jerry Brown as "establishment." As a Hillary supporter, I'm not okay with ME being dismissed as "establishment" either - because I was/am supporting her, which that remark also clearly implied. Our daughter just got married and during the celebrations we were the ones affectionately regarded as the "old hippies."

Just a REALLY teeny nitpick, I know, and please forgive me if it seems as though I'm overreacting. But when I think back over all those years of my own activism (since I was 17, starting with the Student Coalition for Humphrey/Muskie before I was even old enough to vote), gotta say that really stung.

There were many other things about Bernie that I found very difficult to get behind, as well, but I'll just stop it there, with this.

I appreciate your caring enough to ask, though.