becomes the nominee. Individual members of the party will have to make up their own minds.

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Otherwise, enjoy that giant sucking sound of millions of abandoned working Americans leaving this Bankster-owned party all at once.

I can't get over some people's utter refusal to believe that Hillary Clinton is POPULAR with voters. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence (Hillary leading by 2 million popular votes) some people still refuse to let go of their biases.

Nominee, you will have a chance to show just how popular she is in the GE. I know many people, either long term Dems disenchanted with the Party who simply are tired of the same crappy corporatist politics lobbying for and writing bills that will be sitting out or only going to polls if there is a true progressive running down ticket. Independents will be tough for Hillary and young people will not put her over the top like they did Obama.

So come November we will get a chance to see just how popular she is.

was alive and thriving (especially here at DU) over two years ago.

Led and cheered on by people who trashed President Obama every step of the way. And who seem completely unconcerned with local, state or congressional elections.

I think we all place too much emphasis on presidential elections. Including me. I think at minimum we need a progressive and / or democratic president. But we also need way more than that. We need a majority in Congress and in state legislatures and city councils like Hillary, like Bernie, like Obama, like Warren. Like what FDR had when he was able to get the New Deal passed.

We're getting our asses kicked in Congressional elections and state legislatures and races for governor. I wish for an improved democratic party and / or leftist movement that figures out how to win smaller elections and then expand upward and outward. And for an enthusiastic base that always votes for the most progressive available candidate in every election.

... Bird has made too much of an impact on your life.

WRT your 4/20 joke, that's a fine example of what I am talking about:

Our party has politicians like Earl Blumenauer and Jefff Merkley, who think consenting adults should be free to use cannabis responsibly if they so choose.

...and we also have politicians like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who supports and votes for the incarceration of recreational AND medical cannabis users.

It is up to us to decide what we as a party want to stand for.

Check out the membership of the Third Way advised New Democrat Coalition. The Democratic Party is now the Third Way party. War, fracking, TPP, etc. And Debbie DINO blocks any liberal or Progressive from getting very far. That is her job, it seems.

As Michael Stipe so elegantly sings, I am losing my religion. In fact, I may have lost it now.

...and I'm going to win. This ain't no ball game. I will not stand and watch my democracy die.

So I will fight. And I will win.

And there are many, many millions of my fellow Bernie supporters who feel the exact same way as I do.

You want to win, then you must outfight us.

You see, this isn't about the fate of and old man's political career. This is about the very survival of American democracy itself.
Even if by chance Hillary keeps the Fascists at bay in November it still doesn't change the fact that the "Too Big to Fail" banks in her corner are perilously close to total collapse. And when that happens, American society will be so shattered that it will literally a walk in the park for the Fascists to simply strut right in and take power by force. You see, my democracy is dying. And I'm not going to let that happen on my watch. Not now. Not ever. If it's not Bernie, so be it. It will NEVER be Hillary. See you in Philly.

Sanders wasn't the only candidate talking about breaking up the banks and one of the other candidates actually had a plan to do it. Some Sanders couldn't articulate. With Sanders, it is just an idea. Get off your high horse and support the Democrats. Anything less is giving comfort and assistance to the Trumps and Cruzs of the world.

You know, There are about 200M or so Americans busting their asses off at their second or third jobs just to keep a roof over their heads and food in their children's bellies that haven't been given any aid or comfort in about two entire fucking generations. Bernie Sanders is the only chance they have left of aid and comfort. The last peaceful chance that is. See you in Philly.

The level of puffed-up self-importance is ridiculous.

in trouble come November.

... but if the left can call her smirking, cackling, dishonest, lying, incompetent, two faced, and so on and get away with it, just imagine what the right will be able to get away with. It will be very tough for her to overcome the ingrained sexism of our society.

Both sides of the political spectrum have their self righteous narcissists who think that the world revolves around them. It doesn't and we will move forward.

A lot of the "never for for her" is serious as a heart attack. Lots of millennials - usually male, and they are not kidding.