Bernie isn't my fucking lord and Savior, I'm just tired of what has become of the Democratic Party, and the fact that people can't seem to understand how rotten the party has become, due to them selling their souls for Wall Street cash.
*sighs*
Here goes nothing.
Nicki, what the fuck? Do you think we're all just oblivious dipshits wandering through life with blinders sutured on to our eyelids?
We're aware of this, or at least I am. You want to change party politics, then vote in the frigging primary where your vote matters a hell of a lot more than in the general election. However,
failing that, the Democratic Party is still a better bet than, as Niam pointed out, the GOP frontrunners which are either a toupee that comes across eerily like a fucking neo-Nazi, a sociopath that would gladly exploit every human being alive to advance his own agenda, or a glorified megaphone.
Bullshit write-ins and third party votes are worse than worthless, they could run the risk of actively sending us back to the metaphorical (or, if we're particularly unlucky, literal) Stone Age. You're actively taking votes from people who are, again, at least going to use lube when they screw you. Do we need campaign finance reform? Duh. How about universal healthcare and post-secondary education? Yeah, I'd love for us to not be a bunch of Bronze Age savages, either. Now then, you can do this one of two ways:
1) Help Bernie win the primary. Even if he only gets a little bit of things done, he's at least less dirty than most.
2) If Bernie fails, despite your help, then at least help us
not get a President that would send not just this country, but the rest of the world, into yet another global economic depression and might even start World War III.
Change is not always big, Nicki, and you're going to have to get bloody used to that. The revolution is NOT now. We can at least get some incremental improvement on social issues and get another shot, next time, to get some improvement on economic and political issues. Politics is a long game, and you have to be willing to be patient and, most of all, thank your lucky fucking stars that the Democratic Party even
has electable candidates, this go-around.
If you try to move a mountain by shifting the whole thing at once, you'll either burn yourself out or break your back. Go one stone at a time, though, and you might not see it moved in your lifetime, but you'll leave a smaller amount of work for the next person down the line. And
that, dear Nicki, is the bloody point. So, are you going to help us lift some stones, or are you going to sit on the sidelines and complain that equipment we got to do it with isn't good enough?