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[LWolf]

I have never been a supporter of HRC, although I cast a vote for her in my primary because Obama was ahead in my state.

I'm not a Democrat first. I'm a human being first. Then I'm a woman, a daughter, a mother, and a grandmother. I'm a teacher, and a friend. I'm a leftist liberal, an independent thinker, an environmentalist, an evolving pacifist, a semi-socialist, a feminist, and a product of the working poor who earned a college degree.

I'm an idealist and a cynic. I'm the enemy of bureacracy, of corruption, and of conventional wisdom and the status quo. I'm many, many things before I'm a Democrat.

For me, the party is a tool, a vehicle, for accomplishing change. It's not a church, it's not a gang, and it's only value is in what change it stands for and what change it moves forward. When the party is wrong, the party doesn't have my support.

If all Democrats took that view, the party would be healthier, more robust, and less corrupt, imo.

To be honest, I find politics, politicians, and the political process to be dishonest, corrupt, and repulsive altogether. I still do my duty as a citizen, to speak out for, and vote for, what I believe to be right for the world. I do so because I have principles.

Party will never trump principles for me.