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In reply to the discussion: My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing. [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)anymore than it's about any other individual. It's about the will of the majority of the Democratic electorate. Your vote counts the same as mine or anyone else's, but it doesn't count more. That ultimately is what you can't come to terms with. This election broke down alone race and gender lines. As one Sanders supporter announced in GD-P, if not for women and people of color, Sanders would have won. Yeah, and if not for women and people of color there would be no Democratic office holders anywhere in this nation. But this is no longer the America of the minority, where white men alone decide the political future of the nation, and especially not of the Democratic Party. I'm sorry you find that so objectionable.
Much of what you list above is supported by the candidate who you have let define your entire political consciousness. He supports drones. He has voted for virtually every defense appropriation bill and military deployment that has come before him as a member of the Senate or House. His supporters have denounced same day-voter registration in Nevada, and elderly and disabled voting in Wyoming, and his campaign has openly declared a strategy that relies on overturning the results of elections and seizing the nomination against the will of the electorate. Suddenly closed primaries are an issue ONLY because Sanders doesn't perform well in them, whereas the far more restrictive caucus system is championed because he benefits from low voter turnout. I never heard him once mention GMOs. You can project whatever you want, but when your articulation of issues bears little resemblance to differences in actual policy positions, it isn't exactly convincing.
The sense of self-importance reflected in your post is a microcosm of what the Sanders campaign has been about. Too many of his supporters believe they matter more than the rest of us, that the electoral will of the majority. So be angry all you want, but what you are angry at is electoral democracy and the notion that your vote doesn't take precedence over everyone else's.
So by all means, contribute to the GOP victories by leaving spaces empty. Doing so only shows the issues you list above really aren't what matters to you.