The young independents who back Bernie would have BEEN Dems

[Ken Burch]

if this party had stood for progressive things during their own lives.

And if we had always been a party that validates activism and encourages people to work from below for a better world.

Instead, we became a center party in pursuit of corporate money that treats politics as something that should be "left to the grown-ups".

Learn the lesson. Change the party. Let's get all the votes we CAN get.

[revbones]

1. Excellent point n/t

[PowerToThePeople]

2. I am a Gen-Xer

Clinton's NAFTA and bank deregulation kept me as an independent voter until the Iraq war. The enemy of my enemy then became my friend.

Your post is spot on.

[cherokeeprogressive]

3. Exactamundo. nt

[Gwhittey]

4. NAFTA made me not want to ever eat Oreos ever agin.

Thanks Hillary and Bill,now I have nothing to dunk in my milk.

[Kalidurga]

6. Hydrox are better and they are the original.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20025_5-world-famous-products-that-are-shameless-rip-offs.html

[VulgarPoet]

9. I can't even find those in Virginia...

used to be a gas station on a corner right near my high school in El Paso that carried 'em though, and they were WONDERFUL

[Doctor_J]

5. That's probably the worst thing about this campaign season.

We'll never get those votes back.

[Gregorian]

7. I love it.

[liberal_at_heart]

8. My 21 year old daughter was a Democrat until Wasserman-Schultz and the DNC pulled

the tricks they pulled. Now she is an Independent.

[VulgarPoet]

10. 22, proud independent after this season.

The DNC can disintegrate for all I care-- they poisoned their well, now they can sleep in it. Malaphor.

[IllinoisLabour]

11. You're 100% right

If the Dems make a shift to the left, I'll join. Obama tearing up the TPP would be a nice start.

I'm not really holding my breath, though. After all, money talks, and it talks loudly.