YOU are personally responsible for these decisions if you aren't voting for the Democratic nominee (even if s/he would pass the Ryan plan on steroids AND nuke the Middle East).
I believe this is the most idiotic and unprincipled statement that I have witnessed anyone on this site express, at least directly.
For those who actually sympathize with this travesty of a political compass, please explain what line is too far? Is an 80% vote by the CBC against the De-militarization of America's police forces enough to question your loyalty? Clearly re-starting a bombing operation in Iraq AND the nuclear arms race aren't enough for people to give up their fantasy that Obama gives a goddamn about what the people in this country want.
When will you have enough? When will you stand up and demand to be counted? When will you actually grow some courage instead of visiting the museum of past party agitation to reminisce about those who once MADE demands of their representatives rather than cowering in fear of their Republican partners in the good-cop/bad-cop corporatocracy?
The strategy of threatening "Paul Ryan on Steroids" as the alternative leaves room for the Democratic party to become the party of "Paul Ryan without Steroids".
Without some mother fucking PRINCIPLES, without the conviction to actually hold the Overton Window in place, without interfering with the Democratic party establishment scorched earth campaign against integrity over the past several years, there's nobody left in this shitty fucking ghost of a party to keep it from going full-bore neo-liberal. Certainly not the fool who I quoted at the head of this entry.