I know which side I'm on and it's NOT on the side of the corporate stooges

[hobbit709]

that run the Democratic Party at the national level.

And I don't give a rat's ass about anyone here that tries to tell me that I'm giving the election to the repukes with my attitude.

When the effects are the same how are they really different?
That's like asking do you want to come down with smallpox or syphilis.

[upaloopa]

1. Saying both parties are the same is just

ignorant. Your position has no merit.

[RoccoR5955]

3. On the level of corporate interest

They both ARE.

[Populist_Prole]

20. Bingo

If I'm ( or any ) are to be impoverished, a few social issue crumbs aren't going to assuage that.

Too many look at the divide between the parties in a macro sense, as if it were a math equation where the highest number of "plusses" wins. When it comes to one's own livelihood: Dead is dead.

[hobbit709]

5. When both support the corporate bills how exactly are they different.

[madokie]

10. They are the same

Hillary will be no different. Bernie on the other hand will be. One way to judge a persons character is to look at their past. Bernie passes this test, Hillary not so much.

[cali]

8. sorry, on some issues, there's not a hair's width of difference between them

[marble falls]

2. Self imposed voter suppression. The GOP loves this as much as self-deportation.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Yep ...

But it's far easier, than ... you know ... getting involved beyond typing stuff on the internets.

[hobbit709]

7. See reply #6

[hobbit709]

6. I'm voting. Have in every election since I turned 21.

It's getting harder to do so while carrying a barf bag and holding my nose.
I've always said I'm a Democrat by default since there is no viable Socialist option.
I come from a long line of hard core Socialists

[marble falls]

9. We need to change the ballot system, there's no winning with a third party vote in two party system.

There ought to be a runoff in all elections of three candidate ballots if the leader doesn't break 51%. Another thing I'd like to see is a "none of the above" option. If it wins or comes in second where the winner has less than 51%, there needs to be a re-slating of candidates.

[SusanCalvin]

12. There you go.

The current system is rigged, in so many ways.

[marble falls]

13. It can be unrigged, but it won't be if we don't vote. Supporting Barney Sanders is GOOD start.

[A Simple Game]

15. No winning in a two party system? Tell me because I forgot,

is Bernie a Democrat or a Republican?

But yes what you suggest would help. So would having the Representatives and Senators stay home and vote electronically. Make them walk among the people they represent instead of other Senators and Representatives. Let them have lunch and dinner with their constituents instead of lobbyists.

There is no longer a need for our legislators to be in Washington full time.

[marble falls]

17. I absolutely want our Congressmen in Washington. None of them are in DC full time. Look at the...

last four or five Congresses, they made a point of not being in session. Going home won't make them "mingle" with the hoipaloi, they spend heir time with their own.

[A Simple Game]

21. You know what happens when they spend time with their own?

They start to represent their own. Think about it!

By the way, many rarely go "home", to mention one, when do you think the last time McCain went home?

[marble falls]

22. Their own are the Kochs and the Tea Party. Voters are a minor inconveniance.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Your circumstance is not unique ...

as an African-American in America, there has never been a Pro-Black option (let alone, a VIABLE option) ... the closest I've seen, in my voting lifetime, was The Rev. Al in 2004.

But it is what it is.

I just, really, dislike the dramatic "barf bag" and "nose holding" imagery for doing what is a everyday activity, choosing the best, of available options.

And those option don't grow spontaneously ... they are the product of hard and slow work.

[Deny and Shred]

11. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

[marble falls]

14. One manifestation, one vote.

[JohnnyRingo]

16. If I had to choose between syph and smallpox....

I'd take both over the ebola infection that is a republican leadership.

I think you make a silly and all too simple straw man argument to support your candidate, but I'll play along. Claiming that there's no difference between the parties is absurd.

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. Thank you. n/t