Last night, in a fit of irrational stupidity, I went to TOP and saw a Top of the wreck list diary entitled "WTF is Wrong With You People" (link not provided). You can imagine what it was about. To mash up up two hoary cliches, only mad dogs and Steven D wade in where even fools dare to tread. In any event, here is my response, FWIW:

There’s nothing wrong with me.

Or with anyone who told you that Hillary Clinton was a deeply flawed candidate that risked losing the White House.

But that’s just my opinion.

And no one here that supported Clinton for President gave a shit about it.

So, instead of me explaining what’s wrong with all of you who supported the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, I will direct you to Fredrik deBoer. He wrote this piece that was published by the Washington Post ( Full Disclosure : The Post endorsed Hillary Clinton for President and ran numerous, one might even say endless and redundant, articles criticizing Sanders) to explain what’s wrong with the Democrats, their party, and their selection of Hillary Clinton as the nominee (yes, selection — see, e.g., the DNCLeaks, Wikileaks, Podesta emails, ad nauseum) in my stead. As the subtitle to his essay says “We [i.e., the Democrats] Chose the Wrong Candidate.”

Well, I don’t want to violate the fair use rules, so I will repeat teacherken’s mantra that you should read the entire article. It will be well worth your time.

Addendum: I understand that many of you do not wish to hear this message. You find it grating and irritating and insulting. I understand that because this site, and many, many people here did far worse than that to Sanders’ supporters, like me, after it was clear she would be the nominee, Indeed, even well before that was clear, both before, but especially after Kos’ Ides of March decree.

For myself, I take no delight in Trump’s victory. This is not a game for me. For many like me, who have known real economic and other suffering (for me, my ill health, loss of my livelihood, etc ), and for all those who have suffered far more than I, decimated by the actions of the infamous “New Democrats” exemplified by Bill and Hillary Clinton, and for those who lost jobs and homes and futures and health and hope because the Democratic party abandoned them, the unions and the core base of its supporters since the days of the New Deal in order to cater to the whims of Wall Street con men and mega-corporations, which the Democratic Party, in league with their “partners in crime” among the Republicans, helped create with their “bipartisan” actions to promote a corporate agenda at odds with the needs of “we the people,” this is very personal.

Bernie Sanders offered the first true progressive vision for our country by a candidate for President in my lifetime since LBJ. The first shining light in decades to pierce the fog of despair so many of us experienced every day of our lives. But none of you who supported Hillary Clinton and the status quo establishment of “your party” wanted him. You despised him and those of us who advocated for his candidacy. And the end result is a victory by a despicable man, Donald Trump. That is the true loss that all of us must bear because the Democratic Party sold us out for pennies on the dime, for free dinners and junkets, and — to put a single phrase on it — filthy, dirty, lifeless money.

I only hope that after all the anger and scapegoating and blame-shifting and whatever the else is bothering you people is over, you will take a long hard look at what the Democratic Party stands for and what it represents rather than denying the truth. I hope you come to recognize that deep and fundamental change is necessary if we have any hope of making it a vehicle again to salvage our nation from the profound challenges we will face going forward and from the “economic royalists” that control our government, and make the decisions on so many issues that effect the quality of our lives: climate change, racism, sexism, political divisiveness, poverty, wars without end, and on and on and on. That is my prayer. The Democrats have in their ranks new leaders willing to step up and advance the policies and values so desperately needed in this time of tribulation. But will you give them that chance, or will you return to the wrong-headed and evil — yes, evil is the right word for it — policies and agenda of The Powers That Be who will fight to further tighten their their control of the party for their own selfish and greedy desires no matter who it harms?

I sure hope so.