[I posted this originally on MyDD. I know there have already been multiple diaries about this here as well. My comments are mostly directed at those few die-hard Hillary supporters left who won't come to terms with the reality here, and I doubt there are many left here. But I thought I'd post it anyway to share my thoughts.]

Watching “Recount” on HBO brought back all the terrible memories of the 2000 fiasco and so much more. I was only 12 when it happened, and I’ll admit I was thoroughly confused by what went on. All I knew was that the election was very close and the U.S. Supreme court decided democracy just took too much damn time.

HBO did a fantastic job of clarifying that awful mess. It certainly wasn’t a feel good movie—in fact, it was more of a “feel like complete shit” movie. It made me pissed off again. How the hell did this happen? Voters disenfranchised by the thousands, non-partisan decisions in the hands of the most partisan of people, butterfly ballots, hanging chad, planted protestors disrupting vote count and assaulting a lawyer, election officials being tricked left and right by the disruption created by the Republicans.

Pro-Clinton blogs are trumpeting this would-be inspirational story today:

WILLIAMSON -- Everyone who knows 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield sees it. There's something special about the young man. His mother Vickie says all who come in contact with the Kentucky elementary student look at him and say "He's going to be something'' when he grows up.

Apparently that goes for former presidents, too.

When Hatfield presented former President Bill Clinton with a check for $440 after Friday's rally at the Williamson Fire Station, the man who was once the leader of the free world seemed to nearly come to tears.

But I for one feel bad for the kid, not because I think donating to Hillary Clinton is a bad idea, or that I think its bad for a kid to want to be involved in politics. In fact, if this had been a few months ago, I would have thought it was truly inspiring. Sure, he didn't give to my candidate of choice, but the fact that he wanted to sacrifice in order to make an impact on the presidential race and the future of the country is extremely admirable and its incredible to see someone so young, and so many years away from being able to cast his own vote, getting involved.

Every once in a while I will find myself browsing MyDD, Hillaryis44, Taylor Marsh, etc., and get lost in anger. I forget for a few minutes that the blogosphere is not a microcosm of the country, and I wonder what has happened. Every time, I think about writing a diary about how the party seems torn apart, how racism is much more alive in the Democratic party than I thought, and how something has to be done.

Then I remember that the party as a whole is not like that. I think.

Still, I can't help but find it very disturbing that a large portion of so-called progressives can embody what I so despise about the GOP. How can they really believe the shit they are spewing? Obama is racist?

Barack Obama is the George Wallace of the Left

That tops the rec list at MyDD.

There has been a lot of talk lately about how Hillary can’t win and how she must get out of the race. But that is wrong, and I have PROOF. The campaign came out this morning with a memo, to which many responded: but where’s the path to the nomination. Well, it wasn’t that clear in the memo, I’ll admit, but I think after you read this we can lay to rest the claim that Clinton doesn’t have a realistic path to victory.

Apathy.

A word we haven't heard in a while. It used to be the word we most often associated with youth when it came to politics. It used to be that those few of us that actually voted were seen as the anomaly. The conventional wisdom was that my generation was just not interested in the welfare of the country. Or, perhaps we were to cynical to believe that our votes or our voices really mattered. And if we weren't apathetic enough, a good way to continue the trend is eight years of Bush, a couple of dubious elections (one where are votes really didn’t matter- just those of supreme court justices), corruption, war, scandals, and well, you know the rest.
Bush. Clinton. Bush. Our lives have been defined by these three men. Most of my life has been about war. Clinton gave us some stability and even prosperity, but I most remember the impeachment. And trust me, for the Bush administration to define most of your life is not a good thing. I was 13 on 9/11. Ever since then, Bush has governed by fear.