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BeachDem2/22/2020 4:57:34 pm PST

re: #171 Belafon

So, we could end up with a person who’s not part of the Democratic party, counting on Democrats to vote for him in the same way that Republicans had to vote for Trump? I see the excitement, especially from a party that Will Rogers joked about not being organized.

It’s a week before our primary and a few days till the Charleston debate. A friend and I were talking last night about how excited we were at this time four years ago. My “Hillary kid” (her field director, who lived with me for 6 months) was going to the debate and getting to meet Hillary; we couldn’t WAIT to vote.

Fast-forward to today—I feel sick to my stomach most days at everything that’s going down the drain in this country, and have mostly fear about what’s coming. And although anyone is better than Trump, I don’t see Bernie being able to turn the ship around, should he get elected. His “people will take to the streets” is a lot of pie in the sky nonsense as it relates to actually accomplishing anything.

Still haven’t decided who to vote for—will probably go with Biden, even though he’s not my first choice—just to keep him in the race and bump his #s here.

And funny that it’s gone from “Hillary has to EARN my vote” from the Berners of 2016 to
“Hey, you’re a Democrat, so just suck it up and vote for Bernie because the kids like him.”

Yeah, if it comes to that, I’ll vote for him in the general (it hurts to even type that) but the bullshit about the “corporate, establishment, OK Boomer, etc.” will make it painful. I’m a lifelong liberal, a loyal, active Democrat, who’s worked on many campaigns and given money to many candidates—yeah, I’m old, and I know we need to engage young people, but I feel like the true party supporters are being shoved onto an ice floe by the likes of Nina Turner and David Serota and the loud-mouthed Berners I see live, in person, every day.

Think I’ll go watch a movie…