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PatrickforO

(14,569 posts)
43. Cute. Except that it is Bernie's and Warren's positions I support, not them per se.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 10:15 AM
Jan 2017

Nice try though, but if you dig through my posts you'll see quite a bit of weighty stuff around issues NOT personalities.

But see, by your accusation, you are suggesting that it is I, not the Dem party, who is tone deaf, but this isn't the case. The Donald is being sworn in this very day and sane people in this nation will weep as we face the horrible shit storm his presidency is sure to be.

How is the Dem party came through for us, again? I"m not criticizing the party, mind you, just its leadership for lack of vision and a stunning failure to read the mood of the American people, including myself. Because I'm pretty angry. Oh, I did vote for Clinton, and would have been OK under her presidency, but little if anything would have changed. I'd still have shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays.

Of course the Repubs are gonna try and repeal O-care which will prove a disaster for them, so that's good, and Ryan and his neolib 'rape the treasury and give our taxes as profits to big corporations' cronies are already readying legislation to voucherize Medicare, massively cut Medicaid and privatize Social Security or at the very least massively cut benefits so they can continue dipping into that till as will on behalf of their corporate masters.

So, yeah, there's not much good about this, is there? Plus, the fuck Trump now has the nuclear codes and he's been signaling a nuclear arms race.

How is is that our party didn't screw up horribly this time around? And now I am genuinely afraid its leaders will bury their heads in the sand and FAIL to recognize and reconcile the split in the party. Because hey, I've been called a unicorn, and up a few posts Cha remarked dryly that someone she agreed with is in 'the real world,' implying that I'm not.

Problem is that I AM in the real world and it is a shithole because we've allowed it to become so. It's time to have some genuine change that benefits the people, not corporations. We need to organize around human need rather than human greed, and I fail to see why the hefty amount of taxes I pay into my government, that is supposedly 'of, by and for' the people, including me, cannot be used to make Americans' lives better instead of padding the coffers of the MIC, big pharma, for profit healthcare and Wall Street.

I have correctly concluded, Bain, and all who read this, that my vote would be wasted in the Green party because they'll never have any power, and I will never even consider voting libertarian because that philosophy sounds very seductive until you're the one in need and you get no help. No, I'm a Democrat, and YOU ARE STUCK WITH ME AND MILLIONS MORE LIKE ME.

Hey, everything's going great, so why change anything? n/t QC Jan 2017 #1
Everything is fine, it was the Russians!111 m-lekktor Jan 2017 #5
Exactly! n/t QC Jan 2017 #8
I am going to the DNC forum in Houston Gothmog Jan 2017 #2
I hope that when you go, you will take some of these ideas - PatrickforO Jan 2017 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2017 #4
I have met and like Keith Ellison but I do not support his bid for DNC chair Gothmog Jan 2017 #7
I LIKE Tom Perez, too! Have a productive interesting time @ Cha Jan 2017 #29
The real world is not always fair but you to work to change it Gothmog Jan 2017 #44
Even Ellison has backed off his opposition to lobbying money Gothmog Jan 2017 #45
"a ban then-DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz quietly lifted in the 2016 election." NCTraveler Jan 2017 #6
Hmm, very interesting. senz Jan 2017 #19
Exciting. Always nice to hear from a pro-Trump person. emulatorloo Jan 2017 #28
I see a realignment of both parties going forward hollowdweller Jan 2017 #9
What about tearing down corporate regulation BainsBane Jan 2017 #24
Berniebros operate from the ridiculous perception that it was a close primary. LexVegas Jan 2017 #10
+1 nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #13
Lol. You guys are sad. dionysus Jan 2017 #15
I can think of someone(s) revmclaren Jan 2017 #26
Reality is not sad uponit7771 Jan 2017 #38
Nothing to see here, just some no-name from huffpo Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #11
Why we lose lou ky dem Jan 2017 #12
LOL, yes it appears that I touched a nerve. PatrickforO Jan 2017 #16
And your comment in the OP indicates BainsBane Jan 2017 #18
Cute. Except that it is Bernie's and Warren's positions I support, not them per se. PatrickforO Jan 2017 #43
..as DUers cheer them on... sad... dionysus Jan 2017 #14
Putin agrees the DNC put its fingers on the scale BainsBane Jan 2017 #17
ITA. Black and Latino voters put their fingers on the scale for Hillary Clinton. StevieM Jan 2017 #21
voter disenfranchisement BainsBane Jan 2017 #22
+1, I have no doubt that after the VRA is gutted that black turnout would be down after KGOP uponit7771 Jan 2017 #39
That's what Cenk does JustAnotherGen Jan 2017 #36
Yeah, putin propaganda.. spread far and wide. So members of the Democraric Cha Jan 2017 #30
Some things never change. senz Jan 2017 #20
Back to celebrate the inauguration? BainsBane Jan 2017 #23
Trump "is not into killing -- unlike Obama and Hillary" betsuni Jan 2017 #25
Oh Jesus.. talk about delusional! Cha Jan 2017 #31
it never ends. betsuni Jan 2017 #34
Ridiculous propaganda.. Cha Jan 2017 #35
Yeah, even in today's climate that one would have lasted 15 seconds here on DU. George II Jan 2017 #42
Thank you emulatorloo Jan 2017 #27
Thank you for those enlightening links, B Cha Jan 2017 #32
Well that explains a great deal. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Tarheel_Dem Jan 2017 #33
"Some things never change" - I have to agree with you on that one. George II Jan 2017 #41
This was a WEAK article. I watched much of that forum, and MANY populist things were said. RBInMaine Jan 2017 #37
DNC - "Let's run Hillary again in 2020!" Oneironaut Jan 2017 #40
I would support Clinton in 2020 Gothmog Jan 2017 #46
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