2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This country will absolutely NOT elect a self-described socialist. Sanders would be slaughtered. [View all]Gary 50
(382 posts)I and millions like me will pull the lever with tears in our eyes. They wont be tears of joy. They will be tears of agony at having to choose between the lesser of two evils. Tears of bitterness for having to vote for another pretend liberal who will sell us out repeatedly and eternally just like her husband did. Yes it's true we haven't elected a liberal in ages and it doesn't seem likely that we can do so. But if we don't try, if we continually allow that meme to carry the day we will never have anything but corporate right wing politicians screwing the middle class, passing dreadful social and economic legislation, endless wars, trillions more for the military industrial complex and otherwise continuing the downward spiral of quality of life for the American people. God damn it. We need someone who represents the people not the corporations and the one percent.