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The more I support Dems, the more I get screwed (none / 0) (#67)
by Ellie on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 05:44:25 PM EST
It's to the point that I have to look hard for a reason to support them.

They don't represent me or the core Dem interests I cherish. They don't aggressively, efficiently, honestly serve as an opposition party applying checks and balances. They don't promote progress. They don't uphold and defend the Constitution.

All they manage to do is vacuum in obscene amounts of money to f*ck up elections they should be winning handily, and return the same perma-losers like Donna Brazile to power.

With the Dems getting "my back" the last eight years, I'm not even a person any more. Hell, even my vote within the party wouldn't count.

I totally see where Kathy's coming from. There are better ways to promote change and equality than putting "our" version of a shallow, Bush-like marketing cartoon character. The Dems are a joke.

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sadly, I'm beginning to feel like this too (5.00 / 2) (#83)
by angie on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 07:54:49 PM EST
I actually feel lost -- I've been a Democrat so long, putting my money & time where my "mouth" is with donations and volunteering, being heartbroken when Gore & Kerry lost.  And now I look at the fiasco the DNC, Pelosi, et al have made of this election and I don't think I'm a Democrat any more. At least not if being a Democrat means that the votes in FL & MI don't count just because the DNC says they don't and members of my own party, including the guy who wants to be my nominee, justify it. It wasn't ok with me when Bush & the USSC did it 2000 and it's not ok with me now. Honestly, this feeling is not because I support Hillary -- if it was her blocking FL & MI revotes,  she would lose my support.  I always said I would vote for whoever the Democratic nominee was, but now I actually don't know what to do. I know I'm physically incapable of voting for a Republican. But, if Obama gets the nomination with FL & MI not counting (or whatever Obama's story is about this now), I actually don't think I can vote for him either.  It will be the first time in 20 years I haven't voted in an election, and I feel like I've lost a part of myself.  Sorry for this long post, but I had to get this off of my chest.  Thank god for this site and the sanity and maturity here.  

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Hallelujah. Tried so hard to refrain from posting (5.00 / 1) (#84)
by Ellie on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 08:15:54 PM EST
I swear, since '04 and esp. after '06 I tried so hard to give Dems every chance to meet me at least half way on the very routine laundry list I posted.

I felt I was becoming a rote Dem scold, disappointment after disappointment, sellout after sellout and didn't want to clutter partisan, but overall fair and ethical sites I liked and respected with my Dem Rehab talk.

I still followed a few of my favorites and refrained from posting at all for months and months. I'm just at my wits end. I still like and admire some individual candidates, and will always support causes I care about with body  heart and soul.

I just feel like an idiot now for having given so much to the Dems during my adult life demanding so little in return.

In closing,

RUN HILLARY RUN! Run like the wind! :-)

And if any of the Dem-istocracy are listening -- HAH!, the bigots outside my ob/gyn's office get more respect -- that's a deal-breaker!

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