Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

That boils it down to the very most basic, for me.

I'm DAMNED if I'm EVER gonna vote for a CON to do that! If you have ANY doubts at all, just stop and consider for even a moment - what we get when we have a republi-CON picking Supreme Court justices. Enjoying the reign of terror of the scalia gang? How 'bout the clarence thomas wing of the scalia gang? And their fun new pals, john roberts and samuel alito? How 'bout them? We did NOT get those nominees from ANY Democratic President. Those came from the CONS. Which gave us Citizens United. Which gave us Hobby Lobby. Which gave us the gutting of the Civil Rights Act. And that's okay?

One can be okay with that - when one decides to sit this one out because one was forced to accept the good rather than the perfect?

Now, I FULLY GET your post - how you will indeed vote for the Democratic nominee when all is said and done. Even if it's Hillary. But please understand. I don't like it either. I'd love a full-on Elizabeth Warren-type President. I voted for Howard Dean back in the day, and I STILL think he would have been better than John Kerry and he might even have been elected President. But I voted for Kerry because I wanted the White House back from bush/cheney and their Famous Dancing War Criminal Revue. I'm wondering if enough Dems stayed home and pouted then, too, so that we didn't get enough of a leg up to make it impossible to steal. It's clear that they stole the 2000 election. There are many of us, myself included, who also are convinced they stole 2004. BECAUSE THEY WERE ABLE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH. And they had a willing accomplice in kenneth blackwell in Ohio, the same way they had a willing accomplice in katherine harris in Florida four years earlier. Both willing accomplices with the identical glaring conflicts of interest, too, as both secretaries-of-state AND state campaign chairs.

I understand you plan to vote for the Dem nominee. And I'm glad. But we all have to do that. And make damn sure we get out there and vote.

Call me paranoid, but as a woman, I fear that the bad guys are looking at MY right to vote and wondering how soon they can go for that, too. They certainly had no hesitation to go after the African Americans' right to vote. And the Latinos' right to vote. And too many of them, some of their women included (!!!!!!!), have actually voiced their opposition to a woman's right not just to choose but to VOTE. And all of that is enabled if OUR SIDE pouts, stays home, goes milquetoast, doesn't fight, drags their heels, and does little to help keep the bad guys OUT of the White House.

It's going to take enthusiasm and fire - on EVERYONE's behalf. Even those who didn't get quite the gift they wanted from primary season. It just comes down to THAT. I simply do NOT want the GOP picking the next Supreme Court justices. PERIOD. ANY way you slice it, a Dem is extremely unlikely to pick a SCOTUS nominee who'd further erode the Voting Rights Act, or be okay with overturning the ACA, or then go on to dismantle what's left of Roe v Wade.