The Democrats, to a much-too-great degree, are separated from working families. Are the Democrats 10 times, 100 times, better on all of the issues than the Republicans? They surely are, but I think it would be hard to imagine if you walked out of here or walked down the street or went a few miles away from here and you stopped somebody on the street and you said, "Do you think that the Democratic Party is the party of the American working class?" People would look at you and say, "What are you talking about?"

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The American working class is not supposed to be heard.

We should be grateful for what we have.

Bernie is the first true Democrat in a long time.

When I saw something in an article this morning (about the SS cap)...

That only 6% of America makes above $97,000 per year?

I wondered if that was current or an older number from 2008...Regarless (because I'll lay odds, it hasn't changed much) I was appalled.

I would think it's even smaller now.

He is what I've always "thought" that Democrats were supposed to be about.

But, especially this year, I've been schooled on the likes of the DNC/DWS, the Entrenched Establishment, Third Way and the Clinton Family.

I don't like anything I've learned.

America needs Bernie and a Political Revolution, desperately.

And we can largely thank Hillary's husband for that.

The people believe strongly in the things Bernie stands for.

It took a freaking running start and catapulted as far right as it could. It's only drag were the people calling bullshit on it. Yet still they have dragged the uninformed and injected fake Dems into the party.

I can't even believe that people on DU literally spit out Republican talking points and support them.

I still consider myself a Dem. but there is no real "official" democratic party anymore, the so called "leadership" have gone so far right as to be almost indistinguishable from the "normal" Rep. ( I never really refer to the idiots running the GOP or there candidates even as politicians, they are something else altogether)

republican party. That's the problem.

The republican party has become the Fascist Party and moved so far to the right that HIllary can spout her "Goldwater Girl" republican values and sound like a lefty.

Thanks to DLC, THird Way BLue Dogs republicans.

under the shocking complacency of people who've never had to lift a finger or pay for anything on their own in their lives (they literally don't know how money works), at some abstract level you can get them to agree that the US economy is a goose that lays golden eggs, and killing it for a NASDAQ uptick is (in the abstract) a bad idea

and the Republican Party has gone off a cliff. There is no true progressive party in the US.

If Sanders isn't the nominee I am going to leave the party and become an independent. I've been a Democrat my entire adult life but I cannot continue to support the party's neo-liberal third-way policies. This election is the last straw for me. I've been voting for the lesser of evils for 25 years and the country and the world is going to hell in a hand basket From now on they'll have to earn my vote and support. No more of this lesser of evils BS that we've had rammed down our throats for the last 25 years.