The bashing of the Progressives (my own last post here in GDP) [View all]

[Bonobo]

We always knew it was a longshot. I, myself, and many others fought hard despite virtual certainty that it was not going to happen. I'm old enough to know how hard the establishment kicks back against unwanted challengers to their power and I knew that Hillary was the anointed one.

So, we fought hard on this board. We attacked Hillary, yes we did. Because doing so was the only way to even TRY to knock her off her bought and paid for pedestal. I will not apologize for fighting to see the most Progressive chance at POTUS that I have seen in my lifetime.

I always loved Bernie, having known of him during the 10 years I lived in Western Mass (virtual Vermont). I know what a good man he is and over the years I have heard, in him, one of the truest and most consistent voices for Progressivism in America.

What really makes me sad now that it is over is to see how Progressivism ITSELF has been bashed and beaten, not really about Bernie Sanders himself. I had thought up until this Primary that DU was a place that would always go for the more Progressive policies, always stand up for them. But somewhere, in the bashing of Sanders, the Hillary folks began to bash the very idea of Progressivism, the very idea of demanding the level of changes that WE KNOW are necessary to really turn around the Rightward creep that has continue, unabated and barely slowed, over the last 36 years.

And now that it is over, I feel scarred and disillusioned to even be here on DU where I have spent nearly each day for the last 15 years. What happened to that hope, that fierce passion with which we derided the wars, the torture, the electronic voting black boxes, the secrecy, the Cronyism, the Corporatism, the Wall St. foot-rubbing, the slippery and sleazy and basically dishonest approach to politics. Bernie. He was the one we should have all been behind, I cannot help but feel that way --and yes, most of us on DU were. So there is that.

But after it's all done, the scars left from these attacks against perhaps the only truly honest, non-corrupt, anti-war, tell-it-like-it-is Liberal in the Senate are painful, red and probably necrotic.

I'm out of here. But I'm disappointed. My best wishes and thanks and love to those who stood for Bernie (and still do). I'm only sorry that we did not win --but I am not surprised. Again, the only surprise comes from those who went so far that they labeled Bernie with the very descriptions so deserving of Hillary: namely corruption, pandering, insincerity, DINO-ism. To those, all I can say is good luck. You WILL get what you deserve. That's usually how things work. Karma is frequently misunderstood as a mystical concept. It isn't. It's quite down to earth actually. And it's comin' for ya.