i understand, and even admire to some extent, the power plays and calculations on all sides, but this is/should be/coulda been a banner year for the democratic party and democratic voters. having all the big name democratic presidential candidates campaigning here in florida, laying out their plans and visions for us in person, asking for our votes — that would have gone a long way toward helping to turn forida blue, both presidentially and in state and local governments.

a president obama would crack the color barrier and a president hillary clinton would crack the gender barrier — both are long-time dearly-wished-for goals of mine, even if i have to live under a cautiously centrist president to get one of those goals — but my life is not going to get measurably better if my state gets turned into mississippi in the process.

i’m punishing the rest of the country for what my state legislators did?! dude, the two remaining democratic party candidates are to the right of the majority of the citizens in this country. why are you inflicting your right-center candidate on us?

true, but there’s no sane reason to support, either with votes or with money, any group that teams up with the opposition, whether purposefully or inadvertently, to ruin state and local government.

Every local government and school district in the state is screwed, and the DNC helped the Republicans do it to us.

The only thing that is over is my connection to and support for the Democratic Party.