I have examined where my loyalties lie, you judge, I'll explain my position.

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112. Most excellent!

I remember the stories my mother, my uncles and my aunts told me about growing up in the Great Depression, and how my grandfather had to run "bathtub gin" just to feed them.

Then FDR was elected, and the WPA brought my grandfather honest work. Some of the bridges he helped build are still standing in Henry County, Indiana. From there he went on to work with the Chrysler Corporation, as a defence contractor during WWII, and he stayed there until they basically forced him to retire.

I am disabled and a veteran. If not for Social Security, I would be one more casualty of the Ayn Randian America.

I support Bernie Sanders too (I am deliriously happy that he won the primary here in Michigan), and I do not run from the labels "liberal" or "socialist" that the RW tries to use as insults on me.

The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party of FDR.

I hate, loathe and revile the continuing influence of the DLC on what used to be the party of the common man/woman. I hate the "Third Way." I hate "centrism." I hate Bill Clinton's "triangulation" that was used solely to get re-elected after he let the Republicans kick the hell out of him on health care, and how he subsequently jumped on Newt Gingrich's bandwagon. Honestly, I don't think Hillary would be much different.

All this came about as a result of Democratic handwringing at the drubbing the party took in 1984 and 1988 by the Reagan juggernaut and the Lee Atwater hate machine.

Barack Obama has governed more like a pre-Reagan Republican. I voted for him twice, but he lost a hell of my respect for caving to Max Baucus on the "public option" of Obamacare, which is not universal care anyway.

Nonetheless, if Hillary is the nominee in the fall I will probably hold my nose and vote for her, simply to stop a sociopathic narcissist like Donald Trump from taking over the government. I honestly can see his followers trying to stage a coup d'etat if he doesn't win electorally anyway.

I live minutes away from the Canadian border. I have become so fearful of the situation in this country that I would go there in a heartbeat...but it's not that easy, not unless you have immediate family there, are a citizen of another British Commonwealth country or are a genuine political refugee.

If the Democrats lose this fall and Trump takes the country I do not expect the country to survive.