The DNC Contenders Are Not Interested In Your Populist Moment (Huffpo)

[PatrickforO]

43. Cute. Except that it is Bernie's and Warren's positions I support, not them per se.

Nice try though, but if you dig through my posts you'll see quite a bit of weighty stuff around issues NOT personalities.

But see, by your accusation, you are suggesting that it is I, not the Dem party, who is tone deaf, but this isn't the case. The Donald is being sworn in this very day and sane people in this nation will weep as we face the horrible shit storm his presidency is sure to be.

How is the Dem party came through for us, again? I"m not criticizing the party, mind you, just its leadership for lack of vision and a stunning failure to read the mood of the American people, including myself. Because I'm pretty angry. Oh, I did vote for Clinton, and would have been OK under her presidency, but little if anything would have changed. I'd still have shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays.

Of course the Repubs are gonna try and repeal O-care which will prove a disaster for them, so that's good, and Ryan and his neolib 'rape the treasury and give our taxes as profits to big corporations' cronies are already readying legislation to voucherize Medicare, massively cut Medicaid and privatize Social Security or at the very least massively cut benefits so they can continue dipping into that till as will on behalf of their corporate masters.

So, yeah, there's not much good about this, is there? Plus, the fuck Trump now has the nuclear codes and he's been signaling a nuclear arms race.

How is is that our party didn't screw up horribly this time around? And now I am genuinely afraid its leaders will bury their heads in the sand and FAIL to recognize and reconcile the split in the party. Because hey, I've been called a unicorn, and up a few posts Cha remarked dryly that someone she agreed with is in 'the real world,' implying that I'm not.

Problem is that I AM in the real world and it is a shithole because we've allowed it to become so. It's time to have some genuine change that benefits the people, not corporations. We need to organize around human need rather than human greed, and I fail to see why the hefty amount of taxes I pay into my government, that is supposedly 'of, by and for' the people, including me, cannot be used to make Americans' lives better instead of padding the coffers of the MIC, big pharma, for profit healthcare and Wall Street.

I have correctly concluded, Bain, and all who read this, that my vote would be wasted in the Green party because they'll never have any power, and I will never even consider voting libertarian because that philosophy sounds very seductive until you're the one in need and you get no help. No, I'm a Democrat, and YOU ARE STUCK WITH ME AND MILLIONS MORE LIKE ME.