I hate to be a gloom and doom pessimist, but I fear the worst may happen and...

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32. So the "worst" is Hillary becoming our candidate?

Come on! I'm a Bernie supporter and I strongly disagree.

Hillary will be 100% better than any Republican.

Is she the most progressive candidate? No.

Is Hillary a solid liberal? Yes.

Is Hillary cozy with Big Business? Yes.

Will millennial issues be tackled day one? No.

If Bernie is President, will millennial issues be tackled day one? No.

If Bernie is President, will Wall Street be brought to heel day one? No.

If Bernie is President, will everything he says on the campaign trail happen on day one? No.

If Bernie or Hillary are President will we continue to see Republican obstruction like we have seen for the duration of Obama's Presidency? Yes.

Despite that, will America be a better place with Hillary or Bernie? Yes.

Will America be a better place with Trump or Cruz? Hell no.

Hillary's policies, even pro-business, will be very much better than Trump or Cruz, or whomever the Koch Brothers manage to shoe-horn on to the ticket. It won't be liberal lion roaring at the moneyed elites on Wall Street and the Banks, but Hillary will be much better than any other alternative that is not Bernie Sanders.

In politics, we don't get what we want most of the time. This is true of either side of the fence you happen to be on, and if you don't believe me, look at President Obama. He has gotten maybe 10% of what he wanted in the past seven years. Even if he didn't have a hostile and racist Congress to contend with, he wouldn't be much further that what he's done so far.

If you want real change, stop looking at the top, the President, and start looking down ticket to the Senate and House. Start looking at the Governors. Start looking at your state senator and rep. Those people are the ones who affect your life daily. Change them and it will flow up hill to the top. Change your local reps, lean on them to be progressive, and they will take that to Congress and take that to the President, whomever that will be.

That means, of course, showing up for every election in your district no matter how small. That means voting everything all the way down to the obscure judges at the bottom. That means finding out who those people are and how you're going to vote them before walking in to your polling place on that inconvenient Tuesday.

If you do those things already. Rock on, because you get it. If you don't do those things, start now. Better late than never.