I am a proud, lifelong Democrat

[JDPriestly]

68. If I may answer the question: "Take back 'our part' from whom?"

We need to take back our party from candidates so far to the right that voters who are on the left on many key issues won't vote for them.

We need to take back our party from candidates who run on the money of our employers who treat us badly in the workplace.

We need to take back our party from candidates who lose mid-term elections to Republicans over and over mostly because they do not inspire Democrats to go to the polls in those years between presidential elections.

We need to take back our party from candidates who think it is OK if millions of Americans can't afford to use their Obamacare because of the co-pays and that it is also OK if millions of Americans remain uninsured.

We need to take back our party from candidates who support trade agreements that impose arbitration courts on us, courts that allow corporations to challenge the compliance of our democratically determined laws with their autocratically imposed trade agreements.

We need to take back our party from candidates who support H1-B visas when there are still well qualified Americans who do not have jobs and could fill the positions held by H1-B holders.

I could go on and on.

For Bernie supporters, this election is not about slogans but about the issues. It's not about hero worship but about ending the political power of the plutocracy and becoming the democracy that our Founding Fathers planned for us.

Feel the Bern!