Democracy is at the ballot box. Got it? If you do not show up and if you do not vote for whichever candidate is on the ballot… Republicans win. It is that plain and that simple. DO NOT fall in love with your candidate. You will end up with a broken heart but fall in line with keeping crazy, hateful candidates away from 1600 and on down the ballot sheet.
I have never seen so many energized voters for a candidate of hate as I have witnessed with the Trump candidacy. Why is that? Our own base is part of the problem. Let us look at how this is playing out from the reality point of view. Trump is a celebrity. How many times have people tuned into Dancing with the Stars than making their own lives liveable? More than I care to count. Memories are short. Short term memory loss is real for many people but no excuse for people not affected with this disability. I want to move forward with fire in the belly and the next minute...Oh let’s go get a pizza and then don’t show up or Let’s sit this out because we don’t know how to fight the republicans...or pout over a loss or setback and decide I am going to take my ball and play somewhere else. Guess what...come November not only will people like Trump take your ball, they will take your somewhere else !!!!! This is real, people. Get off your ass and quit complaining about how unfair life is. If you want democracy, or a path to moving this country forward instead of undoing any progress for the last 50 years...WAKE UP !!!!
I am a Bernie supporter BUT if Hillary wins the nomination, I will not sit and complain or be a puritan because I have lived under Reagan… ( survived is a better word). I have been under a Nixon administration. I struggled under the Bush people. When people do not show up for their party then the opposition wins. But with that win, we all lose. When they win, we all lose. Say that over and over and over until you recognize the potential loss of a democratic candidate in the white house. How many people have to starve? lose their homes? Work for peanuts? Why are democratic voters allowing the likes of Trump invade their freedom? Is this a rant? You bet it is. This will in all liklihood be the last election for many of we old timers. I, for the first time know how Daddy must have felt when Bush beat Gore at the supreme court and he so desparately wanted Gore. Guess what a supreme court would look like under a Republican !
Was Gore exciting? No….but he would not have invaded Iraq. He would be on top of climate change. We as a country would not be hated by so many for so long.
I still am mad at the Nader people. I am still mad at Dems not showing up until they got together to protest the Iraq war. I honestly believe President Obama was elected in 2008 because people were so hungry for something other than hate, economic ruin, and war that they got out and voted. I do not want to have to live and die under Republican regime of suppression again. It is bad enough on a state level, without putting one in nationally.
Get the vote out and stop this infighting because we are only hurting ourselves. Every negative thing we say about our rathers in a primary will come back to bite us in the general. I am preaching to myself as well. I do not want infighting in this diary about pro Bernie and pro Hillary. I want some real promises to help stop the celebrity reality show from turning this election into something that is downright scary !!! A maniac takes on the Pope with negative comments !!
Life is about making for a more perfect union. We are already facing all kinds of obstacles with voter suppression. We need to be writing anti Republican diaries to energize the base and stop the anti dem diaries. Make people aware of just how dangerous this whole thing is when dems lose focus of what is at stake. Republicans would vote for a junkyard dog if it had an R by it’s name but Democrats get really petty until we shock and awe someone. If this is truly a Corporate America instead of a Republic, then we might just get a billionaire CEO to run it. I do not want to be a slave building another Trump tower.
Turn out and Vote.