The money is god in US politics. Above all else, even in the Democratic Party. Sad but true. This primary is laying it bare.

I just hope that Bernie starts aggressively going after Hillary. He'll never make up the ground he needs to until he calls her part of the billionaire class and really calls her the embodiment of the problem by name. He needs to go negative if he is serious about winning. We're losing time.

Help to build your local leaders of today who can become the national leaders of tomorrow. Start at the ground and it will help give you hope. There are a ton of amazing Democrats right in your back yard.

That's my $.02. Take it or leave it, I guess.

This is a whole new level.

every time another neo-liberal is nominated and/or elected.

That's what has allowed our nation to move so far off track; our party's willingness to move off the path of social and economic justice for all in order to "win" elections.

I have met a few cool people.

It is simply one of a multitude of political sites where a relatively few political junkies, including myself, like to hang out and whinge, laugh, fight, occasionally learn something new and use a crap load of smilies to punctuate whatever point is being made or lost.

It's mostly greens, marxists, socialists, libertarians and even a few anarchists sprinkled in.

It's basically a Mos Eisley cantina for people who hate establishment politics of any kind, but especially establishment Dems.

while folks like you became republicans without noticing.

The truth is that the totality of DU members represent a spit in the ocean compared to the total Democratic electorate, and couldn't make the slightest dent in the outcome of the primaries or the election.

it's all changing all the time.

or at least as far as I remember, but the overall tone is angrier,
and the rapid devolution of the level of civil discourse is too bad.

The Sanders/Clinton split is deep, but having survived the same angst
in prior primaries, I feel we'll do better than you might expect.
Let's hope so.

Here's what I posted in May about the 2004 primaries,
and our lack of unity then:

Deja Vu: It's Starting to Feel Like 2004 Around Here Again
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026613629

I like socialist over leftist, so I guess I'm socialist pout pony, if that's what
they call folks that aren't cool with your list, that's what I am too.

If the Party won't listen to us, why should be keep banging our heads against the wall?

Passing some time. Occasionally getting inspiration or knowledge or laughs with cool people. The rest is static.

I agree that we're fractured spiritually or organically or whatever one calls it. The ideological splits in the democratic party, I believe, have always been there throughout its bizarre history.