Andrew, so what exactly is that majority of Americans, who aren’t making progress, who are in real economic trouble, and whose numbers are growing supposed to do?

Exactly what they are doing!

And I’m 1000 percent in support of all that too. Not one dime to the party, and where there is a real economic progressive running, my vote every fucking time.

Lots of us are going to do that. A whole lot more aren’t going to vote.

The way to change that is to garner votes, and that means putting the things out there people would vote FOR, not against, or to OK the not very worst outcome, for fear of the worst one.

You said something very interesting a while back, “[since it’s not gonna happen], why talk about it?”

Well, there is the thing! It’s not going to happen, unless people talk about it, and talk a lot, and get politically involved.

The state of health care in this nation right now is completely unacceptable. It’s a global embarrassment. It’s against the law in just about every developed nation. Hell, we made sure Iraq got good health care policy, health care as a right, written in after we bombed the shit out of them for oil.

I, for one, am absolutely not going to lift a finger for people who don’t mean fixing that.

What does that mean?

No challenger, or a nut bag, or the GOP? Yeah, I’ll vote, but that’s it.

Progressive? I’ll vote them, every time, win or lose. Every fucking time.

Meanwhile, I’ll put my dollars and activism time behind people looking to challenge, or take party machinery from corrupt leadership, who could give two shits about the people they are supposed to be working for.

Let’s call that pretend support for pretend representation and call it a day.

Tell your friends. I am.

And that goes back to what I’m looking for.

Let’s be real. Most of us here are old enough to escape the worst of what may be coming. Most of us here are reasonably well off, or at least making it.

I’m very badly harmed by this policy. Might not do so well, really might be in deep shit, though I’ve also got a real chance to power through and live somewhat reasonably.

A Trump type hurts me. Hurts us.

But, here’s the rub: Had Clinton won, we would be seeing Obama 2.0 economically. Obama 1.0 didn’t improve on the struggling majority. It increased, and actually passed majority numbers while he was in office.

That’s a party fail economically.

Not OK. I’m no longer in that game.

Worse?

Doing that shit puts the excellent social progress at risk! Without reasonable economic representation, consolidation of power to the economic right will come with social regression, and STILL no improvement for the growing majority in real trouble.

Unacceptable.

Like I said, looking for understanding. It’s not enough to sit in a position of relative security and proclaim that “it’s all as good as it gets”, when the truth is we have the resources to do much better and we need to, or entire generations of people are going to be in real hurt longer term.

That’s my kids, your kids, grand kids.

Again, unacceptable.

I’m a Democrat, and I mean that. I’m not a play along for the ride type. Labor through and through.

And it’s not as if I didn’t make that shit damn clear over the years either.

Well, now is the time. Obama was the very last one. Honestly thought we would see some progress, but we did not.

Time for a new game. Existing leadership has failed economically.

Changing that is going to be super rough. Fine, I’m up for it. And if that means another round of GOP regression?

Well, shit. Is what it is.

I will not condone anymore and will maximize any opportunity to dilute the party economic vision and replace it with something a bit more civilized.

So, what is worth what?

At what point do we realize our fellow countrymen need real help? At what point do we actually think past, “well I’m good, fuck ’em?”

Now is that point.

Just think 4 years of Trump. Gonna be super rough. What about 8 years?

Jesus, I am making plans right now. I’m no longer sure that won’t happen, and the reason I am no longer sure, is my party isn’t willing to do what it takes to win and actually do the job it exists to do.

Frankly, most of you amaze me. We’ve had the conversations over the years. Some of you actually educated me on that now majority of Americans, and here you are…

Buckle up. We are going to experience some of the best politics of our lives! Outcomes may not be pretty, but the guard is changing.

This does not come around every day. No way in hell am I going to take things right, when all that has done is fail more of my peers than it helped.