On February 5, MLive posted a series of photos detailing Sue Snyder’s birthday cake. For those who aren’t aware, Sue Snyder is the wife of Michigan governor Rick Snyder.

Considering the state’s declining income levels and climbing poverty rates, its crumbling schools and failing infrastructure, not to mention the Flint water crisis, the cake is a grotesque display of luxury and opulence that has many Michigan residents fuming.

|name = Bruce Rauner + |name = Bruce "Life-Ruiner" Rauner

|successor = Please literally anyone. Can we bring Blago back? We at least had a budget under Blago. I mean yes, it took two months but that's better than EIGHT.

|spouse = Elizabeth Rauner {{small|(1980–1993)}}<br>Diana Rauner + |spouse = Elizabeth Rauner {{small|(1980–1993)}}<br>Diana Rauner, who is apparently so special she gets a $100,000 chief of staff while the rest of the state gets LITERALLY NOTHING.

What I find so disconcerting is the vicious discord among Democrats. I am a Bernie supporter. I post Bernie Sanders things on my Facebook page. Within minutes, I am inundated with Hillary people coming to dump all over whatever it is I have posted. They call me a “Bernbot” and much worse. I am not a bot, which implies I am mindless and incapable of independent thought, nor am I a “c*nt.” Since I don’t go to Hillary supporters’ pages and do likewise, I can’t speak to the issue of Bernie supporters engaging in the same sort of disrespect, although Hillary people have told me it happens. I take them at their word. I don’t believe that just because someone supports Bernie Sanders, they have the grace to remain as focused on issues as the candidate they support without disparaging the opposition. Such is human nature. But I find it sickening, no matter who is doing it.

Should Hillary Clinton capture the nomination, I will vote for her, and anyone who doesn’t is flirting with a (God help us all!) Trump presidency. However, I have solid reasons for preferring Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton. Whenever I write about them, I am accused of being negative. How is comparing the stances and the history of the two candidates negative?

How is it negative to point out that Hillary Clinton once proclaimed that she believed marriage is between a man and a woman? She said it. She has since changed her stance, but she said it. I prefer the candidate who has always worked for equality, whether it be race, gender, ethnicity or sexual preference; and Sanders has consistently been on the forefront, no matter what kind of spin you want to put on it.

Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq war and has since said it was a mistake. Bernie Sanders voted against that ill-conceived conflict and predicted exactly what would happen if we invaded that country; and everything he said – and worse – has come true.

1. “He’d never beat Trump or Cruz in a general election.”

Wrong. According to the latest polls, Bernie is the strongest Democratic candidate in the general election, defeating both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in hypothetical matchups. (The latest Real Clear Politics averages of all polls shows Bernie beating Trump by a larger margin than Hillary beats Trump, and Bernie beating Cruz while Hillary loses to Cruz.)

2. “He couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented because Congress would reject them.”

If both house of Congress remain in Republican hands, no Democrat will be able to get much legislation through Congress, and will have to rely instead on executive orders and regulations. But there’s a higher likelihood of kicking Republicans out if Bernie’s “political revolution” continues to surge around America, bringing with it millions of young people and other voters, and keeping them politically engaged.

3. “America would never elect a socialist.”