The bashing of the Progressives (my own last post here in GDP)

[Martin Eden]

81. Yes, it's sad that you and so many others ...

... have been conditioned over the last few decades of rightward drift into accepting Democratic Party leadership that is beholden to Wall Street, multinational corporate interests, and perpetual war for profit.

They'll throw you a few bones on social issues while continuing the transfer of wealth from working Americans to the rich.

You willingly join that camp, which ultimately requires you to attack the progressive policies that were once the bedrock of a Party that is supposed to represent the interests of ordinary working Americans.

Because your candidate does not represent those policies or the interests of ordinary working Americans.

Your victory, if it can be called such, will be short lived.

The political revolution currently led by Bernie Sanders did not begin with him, and it certainly will not end with him. It is not about Bernie Sanders; it is about the future of this country and reclaiming a government Of, By, and For The People. Bernie has helped inspire young people, who have not been conditioned and co-opted as you have been, into carrying the movement forward.

The butthurt suffered and inflicted by words typed in a forum like this is little more than playground petulance in the larger scheme of things, and hardly worth getting upset about.

What we should all be upset about and do something about is the takeover of our government by an increasingly wealthy and powerful oligarchy, and the real pain suffered by real people as a result.

THAT is what THIS primary election is all about, and YOU have chosen to support the continuation of that takeover.

In the long run, it is unsustainable. Change can come about through peaceful political revolution, or uncontrollable events which are potentially catastrophic.

Peace.