We're glad you're here.

Thanks for the warm welcome to this great group

and as you might guess I am 100% with you on that analysis

I'm delighted to be on the same team again for yet another cause

However, depending what state you live in, you might want to reconsider your write-in plans if your state is very close and Dems need every vote. If there is any chance of it giving us a Rethug in the White House, you should reconsider. Also, down ticket is vital as well for holding onto the Senate at the very least.
Otherwise, we could still go backwards nationally and in the states, no matter which Dem is in the White House and it would be a greater disaster if the GOP was there.

Strategic voting is critical, because any Dem is "miles ahead" of any Republican!!!!

Fight like hell against the corporatists in the primary, and if they win, and you live in a state where the vote will be close, it might make sense to hold your nose. My state is California, safely blue, they rarely need my vote so they have to earn it, but strategy is important, no need to put a Republican in power.

Sometimes I wonder if corporate Democrats don't enable more bad policy than Republicans (we, most of us anyway, don't fight against those policies when Democrats are pushing them) and if they aren't just a way to sustain corporatism that would implode if Republicans were running the show. That argument has merit, but I'm just not ready to let things go to hell to that degree yet.

thank you and thank you Catherina for weighing in.

comment...we all have to really keep our heads about us this election....so many things are at a tipping point for all of us who are not of the "Republican Persuasion"...women's rights, black people's rights for sure, even gays...the job isn't done there yet!

I feel we're going back to the stone age and I truly fear what Republicans will do...they are really harming us as it is!!

There are a few items about Bernie's stand, which I would
like to change as well, but he is by far the best candidate
for 2016.

I've been enjoying your posts and echo your words about him being the best by far. I also appreciate that he's forthright.

Speaking for myself, but knowing many others feel this way especially for your diligence in keeping us informed during the Snowden/Greenwald revelations-- WELCOME BACK and don't be a stranger! On edit-- KUDOS for a heartfelt and revealing post in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251505204#post13

I won't be a stranger- not for this fight. That post was the one that finally made me jump back in. That little stunt yesterday totally pissed me off as has all the other dirty manipulative little games going on. I was watching Sanders through a link someone posted here and could not believe what I was seeing. It was a confirmation of everything many of us suspected when the Netroots event took place- they weren't there for dialog or to be heard- just to destroy the enemy completely. Such nasty ugly bullshit.

I've learned from many of your posts over the years, good to have you aboard.

I'm glad to be on board with this great group of people. I learn everyday reading DU and take my hat off to all the great posters who keep intelligent conversation going. Thanks again dreamnightwind

Like you, if Bernie doesn't make it to the general election, I'll write his name in on principle.

That would make a great song title lol. It's good to see you still here fighting the fight

I'm glad you're still here

have to keep tabs on what's trending just to remind myself there's political arguments going on outside my bubble of local arguing.

I have always looked for your posts to find a voice of reason and sanity in some pretty chaotic times.

Thanks for your overly generous words. It got too chaotic and insane but haha, I'm all rested and back for a battle that counts. Thanks for keeping the sanity going

Fancy seeing you here lol Thanks for all your amazing posts, you're truly a rock star!

Double Double. Toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Something wicked this way comes

and in the best forum on DU! again!!

like getting into the shallow end before taking the dive lol. Thanks for keeping DU honest

of here for a while!

This group has the best hosts!

You made me blush.

I'm doing well enough and hope you are too. It's exciting to be here again, with you and such a great group.

Generations of people that think people with different skin tones or characteristic somehow must be inferior is quite a concept to wrap ones head around if one looks at all the facts involved. But of course, cults are where the cave man always wanted to live if the truth be known.

b.t.w. Is there anyway i can just be a fifty-ish person looking for someone else to help stop the steady trajectory of a society that is headed off the side of a cliff?

but we're plagued with them lol. There's too much truth in your first paragraph and I've been thinking about that alot these last few years. It's repetitive and all over unfortunately. I see it everyday where I am and it's really distressing to see how foreigners treat the indigenous population where I am (Guatemala) They treat them as a numb dumb work force with the full complicity of the lighter-shaded mixed descendants of the old European colonials.

I'm all for letting society head off the side of a cliff if that's where it's intent on heading but every once in a while, there's a ray of hope that gets you pumped up to join with others to help stop that trajectory. A ray of light like right now and not because of one person but because of all the fed-up people who say no to that status quo trajectory. I'll be that someone for you if you promise to be that someone for me too

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Coffee, torches, and pitchforks, are at the fire pit.

Help yourself.

Sooooo happy to have you back and here with us!

Great to see you again. And I'm totally proud and proud to be standing with you. Again.

I doubt anyone is 100% in accordance with any candidate, but the big issues are the big issues!

I look forward to getting to know you.

and I have loved them back over the years for teaching me a lot and giving lots of support.

Like you said, big issues are big issues. The biggest one for me is putting as much power as possible into the people's hands and not enabling more corporate coronations. I look forward to getting to know you too. I noticed you in some threads and was cheering you. Cheers!

I seem to piss some people off, but really I am nice. I think I am funny, but it doesn't come across sometimes.

Whatcha gonna do?

A group that doesn't claim to be perfect? Yeah! I'll fit right in with my warts and all.

and thanks for sharing your thoughts

Thanks for reading them and for the welcome

and felt our freedom was slipping away, so that came to mind.

there was a thread in the lounge about how people chose their names. it might still be there..

edit: it is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018785903

This group seems like Disneyland right now, compared to most of DU.

Sorry I didn't answer you yesterday. I thought I had but it seems my reply didn't go through.

Hello backatcha

I differ only in that if Sanders doesn't get the nom, I will vote for Hillary in November to keep the GOPOS out of the White House.

I respect that difference and your decision. Looking forward to reading your posts

Democratic candidate for Congress and the Senate, this time chosen by the people. No more corporate funded tools. Already there are a few good candidates planning to run and REFUSING, following Bernie's example, to take the bribes from Corporations.

Thanks so much for standing up for Sanders. He deserves it and we deserve him.

I'm proud to stand up for him. The vile, dishonest attacks on Sanders are beyond the pale. Looking forward to standing up with you

Nice avatar

I don't know you but I've seen you in action and you rock woman! Welcome home and I'm so happy to stand shoulder to shoulder with you.

Thanks for the welcome haikugal I'm happy to be standing with so many giants!

has been such a loss of good posters, but thanks! You are most welcome...

Welcome back.

It sure has... The time just flew by. I can't believe how long it's been but I'm glad to be back and on TEAM BERNIE!



Thanks my friend

Go Bernie !

It's hard not to rock with Bernie. It would take a serious lack of soul and Lord knows we have tons of soul lol.

But more importantly, thanks for all your outstanding posts. new friend

This is high praise coming from you.

Thank you!

because the root canal will be far less painful.

I live in a blue state with few electoral votes but I'll still vote for the root canal if Sanders doesn't make it to the ticket in the general. I won't be happy about it, but I don't want to take even the slightest chance a Republican will take the office. They damage the country far too much.

I imagine most of us disagree with him on some issues and that is going to be so of any candidate who runs.

I'm with you on that and not too hung up on the disagreements. Since people are always lecturing us on being more *pragmatic*, I'm doing so lol. I see Bernie as a stepping stone in the correct direction on important issues- the most important ones being populist democracy and economics.

And then, because people are asking hard questions, there's this:

There have been issues about white people mentioning Dr. King and I look white.

there are issues even when Black people mention Dr King. We're supposed to stop at "I have a dream" and ignore everything he said afterwards, especially on war, militarism, economics and how he was organizing a Poor People's Campaign demanding "economic and human rights for poor Americans of diverse backgrounds".



For the record:

The Poor People’s Campaign was motivated by a desire for economic justice: the idea that all people should have what they need to live. King and the SCLC shifted their focus to these issues after observing that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of life for many African Americans. The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort—including African-Americans, whites, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans—aimed at alleviating poverty regardless of race.

Poor people from around the country made up most of the group. Many officials perceived even this group as threatening.

The Committee demanded an Economic Bill of Rights with five planks:

"A meaningful job at a living wage"
"A secure and adequate income" for all those unable to find or do a job
"Access to land" for economic uses
"Access to capital" for poor people and minorities to promote their own businesses
Ability for ordinary people to "play a truly significant role" in the government

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign

got results by doing things right. You know, civil disobedience. So, if you will excuse me, I am just going to stay out of all the Dr. King controversies. I have to pick my battles.

But, I sure am happy you are back. It really is fun to share things like a turn out of 28,000 at Portland.

While Bernie is getting himself known, though, Hillary is collecting Benjamins. So, duck for cover.

What if Bernie Sanders backs another D (if he lost primary he willsupport another) would you cast your one vote then?

…..about "your serious problems" with him. I really want to understand.

He seems so on target with every policy that would help African Americans, working people, women—all of us.

Glad to have ye

But what it seems she wanted to do is working: Dems are hating on Bernie and even people here on DU are criticizing him for not doing something, I don't know what, when rude and divisive people got up and crashed a rally on _Social Security & Medicare_!

I am down with BLM's goals, tho I'm not sure what those women are after. But to say they're black so it's okay if they scream at a 73 yo man who is trying to do some good is the soft bigotry of low expectations. There I said it. Damn I hate this whole thing.

She has "evolved" since then. Unbelievable the things people will accept. Meanwhile, look at the headlines in the MSM. Mission accomplished.

There I was, all settled in with a hot cup of tea, had just finished listening to the NAACP rep and those two bats out of hell crashed the scene before Bernie had even gotten 10 words out of his mouth. I'm down with reducing Black deaths but having seen how he operates in many countries, I shy away from any Soros-funded activities and I'm sure as hell not going to hitch my stars to Palin-lovers and someone who embezzled over $11,000 from a nonprofit- straight out of the mouths of the poor, on the days she could even be bothered to show up to work (that being Tia, one of the 3 co-founders).

My brother's one of the young Black men who gets harassed by the cops and it's got to stop but those women aren't my allies.

Call me. And you know how I feel on this issue. America hates liberals...acrually fears them. All manner of steange bedfellows are combining on this one.

It was great talking with you my sister. All manner of strange bedfellows indeed. It's too funny to watch.

Wow! Great to see you again. Welcome back to DU.

That was quite some splash you made when you jumped back in. I almost logged in and rec'd right there lol. Hi my sister! Welcome back too

If Hillary gets the nomination. At least, I don't live in a swing state.

and we're supposed to meekly fork them over to the Clintons who are hypocritically, expediently apologizing for all of their disastrous third way crimes against the poor? Against people of color world-wide? People who went and backed a coke-sniffing swindler as the President of Haiti? Bernie ALL the way!

Now it's triple trouble lol. Quadruple. Ad infinitum.

I have always appreciated your input in the past and look forward to you being here again.
#valuable

cheerio
agony

...i have decided to go with the write-in strategy as well

Thanks. But it's always been great reading yours two and learning from you. I'm glad to be back and look forward to helping Sanders every which way I can, on this great team!

Hi LiberalElite!

Gonna a bit with you too. You're enthusiasm is infectious. Here's looking at Sanders!

Thank you and thanks for always keeping it real. How are we always so in tune? I love it!

I look forward to winning together

Glad to know u got Bernie's back too! We black Bernie supporters gotta stick together!! lol

I'm Nobody! Who are You?

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

- Emily Dickinson

and welcome to DU!

I've always considered you to be one of DU's most notable activists. It's so good to see you join the Bernie camp.

especially since I have great admiration for all the work you've done over the years. See, this is what I mean about the joy of finding my old friends, and so many others I admired over the years, on the same team, based on issues we fought for!

Hello my friend

but what a DELIGHT to come to this group and see your name.

I have mad respect and appreciation for you. I hope life has been treating you kindly.

You're amazingly kind. Thanks for that compliment- I blush. But it's reciprocal so I really hope you have a little time to share with everyone.

Life was a bit brutal last year with several deaths in my circle but it's good again now, and all the enthusiasm, the determination to vote a loud "NO" to the status quo, only makes it better.

I hope life is being kind to you too old friend.

I googled you when there was a post about how great it was that you were on Team Bernie. Very impressive. And, that is one fine, accurate sig line.

Thank you! Did you get my PM? I need more recipes lol.

It's absolutely wonderful to be fighting with you again! I still hope that beer will be in person one day. Here's to you too:

...But Welcome Aboard

I kept going back and forth about getting sucked back and spending a huge chunk of time online, so I'm the one who's late. But it's great to be here now and wonderful to have you welcome me on board. Thanks so much!