2016 Postmortem

I'm in California. We want to vote. The Hillary supporters don't want to afford us that right. They are pushing Bernie to quite. No way. We in California want to vote for him.

I'm 72. I've been compromising and voting for Democrats who have increasingly moved to the right all my life. It's pretty tiring watching that movement further and further to the right. Talk about extremists. The right is full of them, and some of them are Democrats. I hate to say it but they are.

I cast my first vote for LBJ in 1964. (Had to be 21 to vote at that time.) I campaigned for McGovern. I remember Watergate.

Bill Clinton's presidency was a disaster for those of us who are FDR Democrats. We did not realize it at the time, but it was. I cannot support Hillary.

I am the furtherest person from an extremist that you will meet. But I have worked in fields in which I have seen the human misery that the Reagan era allowed to take root, and I think we have enough of that right-wing inhumanity.

Bernie is an honest man, a good human being who cares about the middle class and the poor. He is not corrupt, doesn't owe Wall Street a cent. I am a proud Bernie supporter. As far as I am concerned, Hillary is a Republican. She talks and acts like the Republicans in my youth.

Remember. Nixon set up the EPA. In fact, I suspect he was no more to the right than Hillary. Thanks to Bill Clinton's election strategy, our Party has moved to the right, and that move is having tragic effects on many people including most working people. We used to have strong unions. They are all but gone. Our trade policy is disastrous.

Thanks to some of the work I have done, I am very aware of the horrible effect that the trade courts in our trade agreements. I cannot vote for anyone who might support or sign yet another trade agreement that provides for trade courts or tribunals that are as independent of our democratic processes as those in our current agreements.

I have good reasons for supporting Bernie. It is not extremism. Bernie is the common sense candidate, the moral candidate.