2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Owe the Democratic Party a Damn Thing [View all]Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)You're getting all worked up. The great part is that you seemed to hope to want to sound clever with your lines about dogs and care givers and so on. It was adorable.
I have no problem saying factual things about the democratic party. They're just the new corporatist conservative party that keeps its voters pacified by convincing them that their social security will disappear without them, or that the social issues we hold dear will vanish without them. Yet at the same time they're totally cool with drone strikes on brown people, the TPP, fracking, hiring an insurance lobbyist to be your state's insurance regulator if you're the Gov. of CT., giving secret $250K speeches to the same Wall St. banks that tanked the economy in '08 and then claiming to want to rein them in, promising to close Guantanamo but then backing down because the GOP didn't like the idea, laughing and fist pumping saying "We came, we saw, he died." after finding out a world leader was murdered, saying "Impeachment is off the table" in regards to Bush and Cheney in 2007 for their war crimes, and this list could go on.
I'm not going to swear allegiance to a party that cares more about its donors and corporate paymasters than poor people like me. So please, save the dog and caregiver analogy. I'm sure it sounded really smart in your head and probably felt great to type out, but it's totally ridiculous and I think you're pretty ridiculous too.