Hello Fellow Democrats! [View all]

[Jason1961]

I can now actually make a post introducing myself (I was told to do this first but I couldn't until I made 10 posts).

My parents both met working for President Truman's 1948 Election (the one made famous by the "Dewey Defeats Truman" Newspaper Headline) and married 10 years later. My family was always very active in the Democratic Party and because of that I've been able to meet some very interesting people. My earliest memories are of my parents and grandparents lamenting the "Dixiecrats" that wouldn't get on board with moving the party forward; at the time I was too young to know what was going on.

I've been a lifelong Democrat and have stuck with the party through thick and thin. While I've seen some dark days I usually don't let them get me down at all as I learned a long time ago that the sky isn't falling and things are never as bad as they seem. It is really great to see the younger generations take the Party forward and unlike a lot of people my age I think we're handing the torch over to what will turn out to be the smartest generation yet. I know a lot of younger Democrats were very disappointed that Bernie Sanders did not win the nomination but we all have to put our loyalty to our Party first because while individuals can let you down, our Party (really a movement!) will not.

I will say that the biggest thing that has changed our landscape is the internet. I remember at the County Committee meetings people telling me that Reagan would ruin America, then after the first Bush was elected that we'd never see another Democrat in the Presidency again, then I heard it again when the next Bush took over. Now with the internet it's much easier to look back at our history as our memory last a lot longer! We can look back and see what somehow pulled out of what should have been our doom and that every storm had it's end. The point of all this is just to say that we have a Party that is based on a movement while the Republicans have a party that is based on stopping us; we're winning this marathon.

I want you all to do one thing, 10 years from now look back on these pages and understand that whatever storm we're weathering then will pass just as they always have.

Vote Hillary!