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ChiciB1

(15,435 posts)
18. But You Aren't THE WINNERS! We Still Believe & No Matter What
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:08 PM
Mar 2016

you want to call it, what the Clintons have done and what they're offering IS on the way out. EVEN IF Hillary should get the nomination it's pretty apparent that Bernie HAS BEEN the REAL CHANGE. Much more so than Obama ever was or has been.

I have two millennial grand children who I see ALL the time, they come over and talk to me and I hear them. They ARE the new generation that's emerging and they tell me straight up they REALLY, REALLY don't like her. They don't see her as someone they want to follow. I'm a Boomer from the SAME generation and age group as Bernie. I KNOW that we really DID change things!

We had our Revolution back then. From the time I was in high school which was moving away from the "Happy Days" syndrome, we began to see we had been LIED to for many years. Soon smoking dope, dropping out, the music revolution began morphing into real Liberalism. There was a REVOLUTION and the upheaval in fact turned bloody in many cities around this country! NIXON DID get elected and it then GOT WORSE!

I honestly don't think this movement can be stopped, my grand kids KNOW they've been lied to and they are looking for a different way. You can say you've WON, have at it. Winning an election doesn't mean YOU WIN! What I've come to realize is that the Hillary supporters are unwilling to look forward and are holding onto OLD ideas that are in NO WAY Progressive. You aren't going to be able to stop this and THIS is why Bernie EXCITES thousands and thousands of people.

IF America is to really SHINE again, it needs to throw away THE PAST and move forward! Even The Hillary Logo sends a negative message, just like the very boring Logo that was designed as THE NEW DEMOCRATIC Logo. A logo is supposed to "speak to and say something," it doesn't! It looks like a circle with a D in the middle like a bulls eye! An H with an arrow through it, pointing to the RIGHT says OOPS, we ARE the right wing of the Party.

Upon reflection over night and after having my discussion with Bernie supporters, maybe what we're REALLY thinking and saying is BERNIE REALLY MUST STAY & BE SUPPORTED because of these facts! POWER BROKERS & most of our DEMOCRATIC Leaders will be dragged along or THEY will be OUT! Bernie may be 74, but he's almost as young as my grand children, he's showing them a NEW way and he's exciting them!

I think too many people aren't giving the millennials the the credit they deserve. They're smarter than you think and they have a real work ethic. Thankfully my daughter had the forethought to come to me when they were babies and ask if I would help contribute to their college funds. My husband & I have never been anything but middle class, he worked at Verizon WITH a Union, I worked at loan companies and typesetting because I got married to keep my husband from being drafted and didn't go to college! Without the Union we would never had made it!

My grand son graduated from FSU and is working and pursuing his Master's in Computer Programming at the same time. My grand daughter who will soon finish undergraduate school will go to UF to get her degree in accounting. Even WITH the college funds they have gotten, close $100,00 each, they both have school loans to pay off! YUUUUGE ISSUE for them, PLUS Climate Change. And right now BOTH of them are living at home because they can't afford to move out. My grand daughter has had to save her money so she can move into a place with TWO room mates!

What MY Generation & Their Generation have so much in common is that I was part of the last REVOLUTION, THEY will soon begin THE NEW REVOLUTION!

NO! With Hillary you might be able to say you win on paper, but YOU haven't and you NEVER will!

People who've been following the imaginary Pied Piper for too many decades are seeing their numbers declining. The Establishment is dying, it's just a matter of when it will die and how fast it can be done.

Smarmy (to gush, to slobber) Smugness (self righteously complacent) are two words that come to mind when I read your post.

Feel The Bern' we're MOVING ON!

Yes massive crowds, donations galore, democracy at work and why is she always bkkyosemite Mar 2016 #1
I feel the same.... but smiley Mar 2016 #3
Maybe We'll Just Have To Wait. I Can't Explain It Myself... ChiciB1 Mar 2016 #6
Thank you for putting this out there. smiley Mar 2016 #2
I refuse to ever vote for a homophobe again. Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #4
Cue Gonna Fly Now /nt localroger Mar 2016 #5
Nah, this one... Waiting For Everyman Mar 2016 #11
Just some advice from me but I doubt you will pay attention. upaloopa Mar 2016 #7
Hillary is part of the New Dem/Third Way Wall Street coddling corporate alliance... tokenlib Mar 2016 #10
Well there are none so blind as those who will not see upaloopa Mar 2016 #14
Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the White House for 8 years Samantha Mar 2016 #17
Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2016 #13
Climate change and clean energy - not that it makes any difference to you but maybe upaloopa Mar 2016 #15
It seems to me... SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2016 #16
But You Aren't THE WINNERS! We Still Believe & No Matter What ChiciB1 Mar 2016 #18
Well that's not why I believe Bernie's not over. Cowpunk Mar 2016 #8
War, TPP, fracking, homophobia, health insurance companies, Wall Street, fucking Kissinger. JEB Mar 2016 #9
I am off to Arizona this weekend. I intend to do everything I can to get Bernie elected. Live and Learn Mar 2016 #12
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