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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am Very Disappointed with the Democratic Party [View all]jane123
(34 posts)84. I agree with you wholeheartedly
It has been shameful to see during this primary season democrats morphing into republicans. Important issues like vote purging and voter suppression are okay as long as they are helping your preferred candidate...obscene amounts of money in politics is also now okay and the candidate who is trying to run the cleanest small donation funded campaign ever run in this country is derided and made a laughing stock by people that call themselves democrats..on so many levels and with so many issues it seems that democrats have lost their way and the argument that somehow democrats are better than republicans becomes ridiculous...this cycle has seen Hillary morph into a candidate that surprisingly is always right and never wrong,has never made an error in judgment and if she has it really doesn't matter, will somehow be a champion for the little guy when she would not even be talking about the little guy if she was not being forced by sanders, who has sold fracking around the world but that is somehow okay, made disastrous decisions as Secretary of State but that's okay too apparently.
I never voted for bush but Hillary was my senator and I voted for her and that vote is on my conscience because of her disastrous vote on Iraq... I have learned my lesson but she has not learned hers because she has proven time and again to support interventionist policies..so war is on the table in a Clinton administration too and that is also apparently okay with democrats ....I completed paperwork this week to register as an independent...because we now have people in both major parties who are willing to vote against their own self interest and it is now an embarrassment to be associated with either one.
I never voted for bush but Hillary was my senator and I voted for her and that vote is on my conscience because of her disastrous vote on Iraq... I have learned my lesson but she has not learned hers because she has proven time and again to support interventionist policies..so war is on the table in a Clinton administration too and that is also apparently okay with democrats ....I completed paperwork this week to register as an independent...because we now have people in both major parties who are willing to vote against their own self interest and it is now an embarrassment to be associated with either one.
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Didn't have time to read all of your comments (I will), but read the para about a third party....
seekthetruth
Apr 2016
#3
The ideals of the Democratic Party were squashed by politicians like the Clintons who...
Human101948
Apr 2016
#98
I thank you for that, and feel much the same way until the last where you mentioned your solution.
Xyzse
Apr 2016
#16
I don't think that we feel differently about this -- even my last paragraph
Time for change
Apr 2016
#24
It's not about feelings. What a skeezy thing to say. You can disagree but the meme is incorrect. nt
haikugal
Apr 2016
#105
Polling now would not show anything, because Sanders is mostly unvetted and has had no real
Lucinda
Apr 2016
#56
thanks for sharing and for so eloquently stating what so many, many Dems are thinking, feeling, and
amborin
Apr 2016
#17
Holy crap criers! This is EXACTLY what Bubba did to Obama. Sat him down and this happened.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#31
Bernie will run if we make him. this is our movement and he will do what the people want.
litlbilly
Apr 2016
#34
People that are older and who have voted for the "lesser of two evils" have come to realize ...
slipslidingaway
Apr 2016
#60
Thank you! It is strange how Sanders has united the young and the old ...
slipslidingaway
Apr 2016
#66
reading some comments - HRC supporters back to business as usual - no issues, just rudeness
snowy owl
Apr 2016
#63
Excellent comment Melissa G! It is the middle finger salute waved in our faces by grinning
haikugal
Apr 2016
#96
You were very vocal about the fraud in 2004, for those that might not know or remember ...
slipslidingaway
Apr 2016
#71
We should always remember what Andy Stephenson did to try to stop election fraud!!!
RememberAndy
Apr 2016
#75
The polls for the NY primary were very good. The exit polls were misleading.
Fresh_Start
Apr 2016
#82
I was accused of being hyperbole by a Clinton supporter concerning the outcome of Arizona
mrdmk
Apr 2016
#90
There was obvious and severe voter suppresion in AZ, as there was in NY
Time for change
Apr 2016
#93
Thank YOU!!! Wonderful piece of writing with substance! Excellent!!! K&R&Bookmarked!!
haikugal
Apr 2016
#91
Thank you for the excellent discourse on the dilemma many of us are now facing.
BillZBubb
Apr 2016
#102