I can not be silent about the alienation the party loyalists have made me feel

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16. The Party elite as talking heads on TV smugly announce that we have no choices.

But we do have a choice and their smugness, and their marginalizing us, and their belief that because we held our noses and voted in the past that we will do so again ignores this fact.

The Party elite have made it clear that they have stacked the deck against change, that we are powerless. But we have tremendous power, the power to NOT vote for Hillary if she is the nominee in the general election and we can be tossed like garbage from forums and the the Hillarites can howl all they like, but in all the lying and cheating, marginalizing and hubris, they have missed the point that they need us more than we need them.

I have been a Democrat all my life. I have phone banked, canvassed, and GOTVed in rain, sleet, and snow. But this election has made it very clear that the Democratic Party is not only ironically named but that it is little better than the Republicans in tossing the base under the bus in order to pander to the wealthy and powerful. Just as the Republican Party has been torn from its roots, so has the Democratic and it is very sad.