Our loyalty can't be that cheap. All of this, and so much more, is why I announced this past May that I'd be leaving the Democratic Party after this past presidential election. I voted for Hillary Clinton and wrote half a dozen columns supporting her candidacy, but the party is an absolute mess. What I care for, be it the Black Lives Matter Movement, stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline, the fight for a $15 minimum wage across the country, universal healthcare and many other issues, simply aren't pressing to the party. That's troubling and is central to why they lost this past campaign and didn't take control of Congress.