Reply #96: Mike, when is the last time we WERE able to vote for a candidate we could support? [View All]

For me, it's been about 30 years!

I've "hung in there".

I've worked my ass off for the Dems.

I've been loyal.

Many of us said in '04 it's done..... it was the last time we sold our collective souls.

So, here it is, and the people *I* know feel as left out as you, are not voting for either "winner", and are casting about for where to put their (considerable) energies.

Yet, the Dem party sails along as if nothing is wrong, as if there is no CRISIS, either in our democracy, or in our country, and we are told our votes aren't even wanted.

Here at DU, where this crisis of the party was brought up in '04, we aren't even allowed to discuss it. We will be discarded as so much rif-raf.

When it becomes apparent to even the most partisan that the party is broken, it will be too late. It won't be any joy for any of us to say "we told you so, but you wouldn't listen."

They wouldn't hear it anyway.... they are as much into name-calling as the RW.

So be it.

Let it sink.

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