For those who are at odds with me for not supporting one of the most divisive, bigoted, woefully unprepared, condescending, failed businessmen - someone who's suspiciously secretive about his own character and as well as record and statistics - I say thank you. I would rather be insane than support such a horrific specimen of the human race as Donald Trump and would rather see a wolf in office than such a human being. . However, don't be quick to label me a 'Liberal' - that couldn't be further from the truth. I would no more support Hillary Clinton than I would Trump. For beginners, the DNC has sacrificed their entire reputation as well as the confidence of their supporters by compromising all that is true and fair in this world as well as sacrificing their honor and integrity for power. This is not a surprise, as I see it. Power corrupts - and it usually doesn't matter who is trying to wield it or which side of the political fence they stand on. . There is a distinct difference between these two parties, however. In the past, I would be likely to point out that the Conservative/Republican side has often been the side of 'Me first, the rest come later...' - or selfishness and hedonism - whereas I would have considered the Liberal/Democratic side to be the 'What is best for everyone...' side or the more selfless or altruistic one. That, however, is not true anymore. . Both sides, in my opinion, have devolved quite far from my previous held stances - to the point where it is almost effortless (with few exceptions and based on many examples of inhumane character) to draw a distinction between them. I have a tragically more depressing conclusion now - ine that many people are familiar with - that the Conservative/Republican side has become overtly ignorant and decidedly unfair, whereas the Democratic side - though being equally disgusting and ultimately as ignorant, though much more sophisticated about it - is a little bit harder to describe. In any case, as explained below, there are many in either party who are willing to tow the party line in order to prevent personal loss) - at whatever the cost. There is also little, if any, difference between the parties. . Fortunately...I know a brilliant woman who, despite all her struggles (which would probably stupefy you if you were aware of them), is a beautifully gifted wordsmith and she has described the problem with the majority of people who guide policy far better than I believe I ever could have (primarily Liberals, but also many Conservatives). . That is why I will leave it up to her to explain the problem I have with the two-party system, why I am a Progressive and why I don't think there is anything even remotely progressive about either of the two candidates: (I strongly urge you to read this!) ^_^ (y)

For those who are at odds with me for not supporting one of the most divisive, bigoted, woefully unprepared, condescending, failed businessmen - someone who's suspiciously secretive about his own character and as well as record and statistics - I say thank you. I would rather be insane than support such a horrific specimen of the human race as Donald Trump and would rather see a wolf in office than such a human being. . However, don't be quick to label me a 'Liberal' - that couldn't be further from the truth. I would no more support Hillary Clinton than I would Trump. For beginners, the DNC has sacrificed their entire reputation as well as the confidence of their supporters by compromising all that is true and fair in this world as well as sacrificing their honor and integrity for power. This is not a surprise, as I see it. Power corrupts - and it usually doesn't matter who is trying to wield it or which side of the political fence they stand on. . There is a distinct difference between these two parties, however. In the past, I would be likely to point out that the Conservative/Republican side has often been the side of 'Me first, the rest come later...' - or selfishness and hedonism - whereas I would have considered the Liberal/Democratic side to be the 'What is best for everyone...' side or the more selfless or altruistic one. That, however, is not true anymore. . Both sides, in my opinion, have devolved quite far from my previous held stances - to the point where it is almost effortless (with few exceptions and based on many examples of inhumane character) to draw a distinction between them. I have a tragically more depressing conclusion now - ine that many people are familiar with - that the Conservative/Republican side has become overtly ignorant and decidedly unfair, whereas the Democratic side - though being equally disgusting and ultimately as ignorant, though much more sophisticated about it - is a little bit harder to describe. In any case, as explained below, there are many in either party who are willing to tow the party line in order to prevent personal loss) - at whatever the cost. There is also little, if any, difference between the parties. . Fortunately...I know a brilliant woman who, despite all her struggles (which would probably stupefy you if you were aware of them), is a beautifully gifted wordsmith and she has described the problem with the majority of people who guide policy far better than I believe I ever could have (primarily Liberals, but also many Conservatives). . That is why I will leave it up to her to explain the problem I have with the two-party system, why I am a Progressive and why I don't think there is anything even remotely progressive about either of the two candidates: (I strongly urge you to read this!) ^_^ (y) - Just paying homage to what so many of us have experienced this election cycle, for the sake of sanity and supporting people who have worked so hard: Liberal elites are a vast club where you all stop telling the truth together. You can bask in your success, but at that level it is all partly predicated on a willingness to stop telling hard truths, and to embrace profound hypocrisies. Many of my fellow liberals, most especially those in an elite sphere, have demonstrated a shocking apathy for the rule of law -- as long as assaults on it are occurring in their own party or by their own representatives. They also demonstrate a profound and barely disguised disgust with the lower classes, reserving their greatest antipathy for the right-leaning, often under-educated working class, and their "charity" for those in the more "acceptable" and palatable spheres of struggle. Challenge structural inequality and institutional, systemic oppression? No way. To do so would require risks to their hard-won careers. Better to slam real change agents (Sanders, all activists with clear integrity), and marginalize those who threaten the status quo - from which they benefit and on which they depend. The tools of class warfare, regularly trotted out in a sublimated fashion by liberal elites, are shaming, condescension, marginalization, dismissal, mischaracterization, and where needed (i.e. Hillary), strategic obfuscation. All of these serve at both the sublimated and social/societal levels to effectively shut down real inroads to change. Sometimes this is less about people being "bad people" and more about it being a profound defensiveness around the "price I've paid" to climb the social and economic ladder and secure a certain status and position. What people don't realize is, that "price" of admission includes the tacit agreement to begin engaging in falsehoods. These falsehoods center on a manufactured, collective reality that is subconsciously designed to be continually self-reinforcing - both at the social and the personal levels - in ways that provide thick rationalizations for that status quo; ways of thinking on "reality" that tend to eclipse real, legitimate transformation of oppressive and toxic systems. People who have reached this sphere and are hanging on to it for dear life (at some level cognizant of the ever-increasing corporate threats to their sphere and thus their own survival) rationalize the falsehoods they must embrace by contorting them into "you could have worked as hard as I did and 'made it' too", or "you're just an angry and unhinged loser who wants to focus on the bad and blame everyone else for your problems", rather than the much greater truth, which is: Structural inequalities and systemic oppression and the steady transfer of all real power and resources ever upward is harming ALL of us; and, there are millions of people who don't wish to embrace the requisite denials and falsehoods in order to "make it" in a predatory, dog-eat-dog system; and, those inequalities are literally killing people -now- and are at every level unsustainable and inexcusable, when confronted and dissected by rational analysis. The great and hateful disdain toward those who refuse to drink the koolaid evinced by liberal elites this election is indicative not only of a well sublimated class war, it is also illustrative of tightening spaces for everyone. When greater forces squeeze or oppress us, human beings naturally engage in horizontal or downward aggression. This means attacking those nearest you who threaten your fragile rationales and perch, and shaming and oppressing those "beneath" you as the problem, rather than recognizing the TRUE problem, which is an enemy that is tough to target easily -- such as multinational corporations that work with a so-called liberal president to transfer nation-state sovereignty into their own hands, via the most secretive "trade" deal in history - the TPP. When one cannot easily pinpoint a target, or worse, when the target is one's employer or source of survival, even at a distant level of organization, or if the target has an overlay with a cherished public figure, it is far more comfortable and inviting to target visible "enemies" -- be they immigrants, queer people, Muslims, or in the case of the liberal elite, people like Sanders and his supporters. Thus our witnessing of the liberal elite audience not only engaging in subconscious class warfare, but their repeated cheering on or convenient ignoring of assaults on democratic processes, the rule of law, and even on facts and truth itself. Remaining carefully ensconced in one's perch in the liberal elite requires the slow but steady swallowing of falsehoods and contorted rationalizations that are meant to uphold a precarious status quo. And yet...that status quo is harming millions if not billions of people on this planet, and even much of the life upon it. It is ultimately a willful assault not only on nature's ecosystem, but the ecosystem of humanity: one rooted in profound interdependence between all of humanity and all that sustains our collective survival. It is this assault on this greater ecosystem of humanity that I will continue to stand up against, at great cost to myself, yes, but not at the cost of the deeper truths that underlie a sane, healthy, and functioning society and world, grounded in a shared, fair and genuinely just rule of law.