2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tens of thousands to leave Democratic party the day after their primaries in protest [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)The idea that this is exclusively a "Bernie Bros" thing or that anyone taking this position is doing so out of a "my candidate or else!" tantrum is shortsighted and ignorant.
I'm hardly a Bernie supporter. I'll vote for him in the primary but I am not overly enamored with him nor do I think he can necessarily win in a General Election.
But I am already planning on leaving the party I've been an active and generous member of for the past 35 years. I've been a straight Democratic party ticket voter across the board every single election, Primary, GE, Presidential, local, dogcatcher, etc. for every single election since I turned 18.
I've sat quietly and gone along to get along as the party drifted rightward and turned slowly and slowly into the Washington Generals vs. the Republican Harlem Globetrotters.
However, I've never seen the degree of "Well this is the best we can do, love it or leave it", single candidate coronation that I'm seeing now and that has been set up for the past 4-8 years.
I'm done with this shit. Yes I agree our country is in bad shape if we get a President Trump or Cruz. And it will be in bad shape if we completely give up the values of the only major political party to have stood up in the past. But if we're giving up before we even start then there is no place for me here.