Tonight is the night I leave the Democratic Party and Democratic Underground

[snowy owl]

53. Just started here and haven't read you before you are so right!

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This country has no institutional memory. It isn't the schools. It is too much media hype and self-aggrandizement. We are told we are exceptional when our people are working longer hours for less pay and getting over-priced healthcare if they can get it at all and serving rich and famous media-masters with what few discretionary pennies we have left. We have few values and are less informed. We have become spoiled children.

Many of the people to whom you are talking are emotional rather than intellectual voters. They are one issue or gender voters. It is our shame as a country. Education follows the values and principles a citizenry chooses. It is always a victim. The citizenry dictates the quality of life and education they receive. We have become a very cheap and predictable package that the uber rich can now control.

Hillary will not keep her promises. She does not have the skill nor the personality to achieve all the Bernie promises she made. Bernie had that skill. We are the poorer for it.

If you listen to this particular panel on book TV, John Nichols makes the case that this election may have been our final opportunity to change. I wonder ... I guess the Koch Brothers have won after all.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?406242-10/panel-discussion-politics