Reply #92: I am old and have lived thru many an election. Bless you that think we live in a

[rhett o rick]

democracy with free elections and year after year think, "maybe next year everything will be fine". I forget the exact definition of insanity but it certainly can be characterized by poor hapless Charles Brown trying year after year to kick the football in Lucy's grasp. Sorry Charles but Lucy will never actually let you kick the ball and the rich will never actually let us peons have any control. We almost had it when Carter snuck or sneaked into the presidency, but the rich corporitists quickly cut him down.

I believe that Mrs. Clinton is a tool of the rich corporitists and I have decided not to support her in the general. Oh yes i believe she will win the nomination after all she has the backing of the corporatist media and all the big money. And I say to those of you that still hang on to the "best of evils" strategy, i think that strategy is bull shit. If we are going to be a corporatist state (read fascist) then bring it on quickly so we can get it over and have our (insert the R word here). It is like boiling the frog. Maybe if tyranny comes quickly, people will revolt and have a change for reestablishing democracy. But if it comes slowly, via Democrat corporitists it may be too late when the people (frog) finds out the temperature is too high and they (we) are boiled.

At least for the last seven years this nation has sunk farther and farther into tyranny and the major Democratic candidates aren't even objecting.

Reestablishing democracy, i.e. reestablishing habeas corpus, stop illegal spying, stop torture, repeal the MCA and the Patriot Act, etc. have to be the top priorities. Without them, all is lost.

I believe we have gone past the tipping point and we won't recover without a (add dreaded R word here). Mrs. Clinton would only postpone the inevitable.