The tragedy of this election (and I've said this here before) is that it should be a Democratic blowout when we take back the Senate AND the House with a real leader in Hillary at the helm.... and instead, Ralph Sanders is going to ride this out until the very last minute. What this does is make people like me, a life-long Democrat who has registered as a Republican in California to vote for Cruz in the primary (in order to keep Trump from getting the delegates needed to secure the nomination and thus force the Republican Party to do the one thing that will cause them to destroy their party), to re-register as a Democrat to ensure that Hillary wins California.

This is what Democrats do, time and again. They just love to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. With the way that the republicans have gerrymandered and cheated their way into power since 2010, the Democrats should ride the wave of anti-republican sentiment (or at least benefit from the high turnout we can only muster from the majority of citizens every four years), but no, we must make the perfect the enemy of the good, and thereby throw away the chance for good to build upon in some sort of purity test, as though purity has won anyone anything in living memory.

Bernie, on his best day, is nothing but a slogan in a cheap suit. He has zero legislative accomplishments. He has no detailed plans to achieve any of the lofty goals he has done nothing but talk about for nine months, as the Daily News interview so brilliantly exposed. It's gotten ridiculous; I can recite every victory speech, every rally, and every television appearance by simply inserting the updated number of months he's been in the race in his standard "When we started out [X] months ago, we were 70 points behind Secretary Clinton..." and then drone on about the evils of our Republican-controlled system without explaining *how* we undo any of the conservative-idealogical damage done to our nation.

And here we sit, with the SCOTUS hanging in the balance, arguing over empty promises vs an imperfect—but winning— candidacy. Folks, look at it this way. The Supreme Court gave us Citizens United on the premise that money is speech. If we allow the republicans to maintain the conservative tilt on the Court, there will be no way to undo this damage. Even if, somehow, we managed to pass a Constitutional Amendment overturning Citizens United, a conservative Court will simply rule that the new Amendment conflicts with their reading of the Constitution, and we'll be right back were we are today.

The Supreme Court is where the power lays in our system, and if we don't put the Court back on the side of the people — the way it was before Reagan packed the Court with young conservative ideologues — there is little hope for We, the People.