The pointless acrimony is really building up between the Sanders and Clinton camps, and it’s sad and gross.

To be sure: the shit that will get flung at the eventual nominee will be orders of magnitude worse, so it’s a good exercise for the political teams.

That said, I do feel very disaffected and without any sort of stake in who actually gets nominated.

The Republicans have tested the waters very effectively with shutdowns - do you think another Democratic president will somehow have them not go even harder?

The Republicans saw the ACA passed, then defended by the Supreme Court - do you think either of the nominees, if elected, will see anything other than 4 years of “overturn the ACA” legislation?

Do you think the Republicans will allow ANY firearms restrictions to pass? They lost the health care battle, and losing guns would undo another key pillar of their entire philosophical reason for existing.

Do you think anything like criminal justice reform will be allowed to pass?

And so on, and so on.

I strongly believe at this point that the Republicans in Congress and elsewhere are left with nothing but essentially shutting down the government of the United States should a Democrat be elected again. They know they can do it, and losing again to a WOMAN or a SOCIALIST will break their brains as much as losing TWICE to a BLACK GUY did. Doubly so if Trump hijacks the party, because he’ll get keelhauled in the general.

So I can’t get behind either candidate in the primary process. I just don’t care. I don’t want my Twitter feed clogged with pointless arguments. I’ll vote for whichever wins - I think they’ll both do a good job of governing inasmuch as the intransigent, cry-baby Republicans will allow them.

Edited to add:

LETTER: ‘this Committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee’ until 1/20/17 pic.twitter.com/rMKGkDOn58

— Mike DeBonis (@mikedebonis) February 23, 2016

They simply will refuse to allow the elected President to do their job at every chance. It’s not going to get any better under President Sanders OR President Clinton.