Reply #6: Speaking only for myself.....

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Honestly, I'm done. I'm not uniting with anyone other than people who agree that our entire political system is broken and that while Republicans were no doubt the drivers when the bus drove off the cliff the fact is that the Democrats were by and large paying for the gas and providing directions.

I don't say this as some naive teenager or even a twenty something new to the process. I've been a core, solid, across the board, party line, straight ticket voting, primary supporting, money donating, Democratic cheerleader and foot soldier for just about 25 years now since I've been able to vote.

No more. I'm done with it. I'll still vote for Democrats when I have to, but the support, the money, the defending them in arguments against people who don't pay enough attention and are disgusted by "both sides"....all of that is done.

The Democrats have decided which side they are on and as a party on the whole they have filled the slightly right of center gap that was left vacant when the Republican party decided to go off the rails into full right wingdom. They could have fought the good fight, but they didn't. They could have made the case for progressive values and the sucess of progressive liberal systems and policies. But they didn't. They decided to split the difference and vie for the affections of people who will never vote for them. They prioritized cable news talking heads like the Morning Joe crew saying nice things about them above what is in the best interests of the country.

So while I agree that yes we're in for 2 more Republican administrations, I'm not uniting with the people who cheerled and enabled this to happen by saying we had no choice. Who let this happen by scare tactics. Who put party above principle.