Reply #54: I will keep on fighting, but I'm not sure who will be with me in the trenches.

[davsand]

This most recent meltdown has just kind of put the topper on what was already a stinking pile of crap that I call the Dem party.

I have had my fights locally--to the point that I hold office right now because a few local Republicans stood for me when my own party tried to kick me to the curb. I got cross-ways when I stood with local Labor against a Dem office holder who was abusing women in his office. I had been abused by that man, I had told them all what he was a year before (I told them in private and with every opening for them to fix it BEFORE it went public. They did nothing.) Once it went public they attacked ME (like I MADE him harass and abuse his female employees...)

Right now I am labeled as a "Bad Democrat" because I stood for women and union members. I'm sleeping at night, and I am not gonna run away and hide because I did nothing wrong. I say FUCK the local idiots--I'll work to take my local Dem party back to the point where we stand for something again. When I stood on a picket line protesting the abuser of women, it was not the Dems with me, it was my Labor brothers and sisters out there with me. THOSE are the people I want by my side when we take back the local party.

On a state level, Illinois has a Dem Governor, and Dems control the majority in both the Illinois House and Senate. Our illustrious Dems can't manage to pass a budget, but they can manage to over-ride the Governor's veto of a bill mandating a "moment of silence" every day in the classrooms of Illinois.

Now I get to the Dems at a national level...

Yep, thanks to Schumer and DiFi we now are a party that can't even find our moral compass when it comes to FUNDAMENTAL human rights. Forget about anything resembling access to health care or true equality for all--we can't even find the moral fiber to oppose torture. I doubt seriously that they could muster the stones to stand for a woman's right to choose or even for something resembling sanity on immigration or the environment.

I think my biggest realization in recent years (from local levels all the way up) has been that these people that I worked to elect share NONE (or very few) of my values. I dunno if I was duped by them directly or by the idea of "party support" but in either case I got sold a bill of goods--and I actually helped sell OTHER people on these lying sacks of shit! THEY have made me a part of their lies and I will NOT forgive that--EVER.

I know what I stand for. I know what I have taken the hits for and what issues I wear the scars for. I know that MY values are what I am comfortable with, and much beyond that I have NO freaking idea. I can't say I am a "Democrat" any more, because I refuse to be lumped in with the liars and the spineless. They don't get my energy, they don't get my money, they don't get my TIME. From here on out, I work for the people I KNOW.



Laura