2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: More and more this primary has distilled down to one thing for me: [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)"I was so excited to shake her hand on the campaign trail in 1992 and now I can barely stand to hear her voice."
Yes, I was the same way. Met Hillary in 1992 and saw Bill come to our city 3 times in 1992 and I turned out for all three of those. A die hard democrat who is absolutely disgusted at the party's move to the right.
Bernie is a New Deal Democrat, and most of us (even as a Baby Boomer) cannot remember Roosevelt and what a New Deal Democrat looks like. My parents told me about Roosevelt and the good things he did. And even Harry Truman who was before my time. We idolized JFK and we had 3 pictures of him on the wall in our house when I was little.
I feel like we've been spinning our wheels and going nowhere since 1980, when Ronald Reagan got elected, and it was starting to get bad in the 1970s, when I was in undergrad and started working.
I was watching the live feed of Bernie tonight in Henderson, Nevada, and the enthusiasm and yelling really made me feel good inside.
Bernie has 25 years in Congress and integrity.