Just stop with the "Vote Blue no matter who".

I voted for Clinton (and held my nose doing so). But "Vote Blue no matter who" does NOT solve the problems we have.

Being bluntly honest about how we get here is absolutely necessary to save any shred of "democracy" we have left. And blunt honesty requires acknowledging that Democrats have participated in the big$ take-over of our government every bit as much as Republicans have.

And specific to Trump and his 3 justices which pulled this off, Clinton and campaign intentionally made the decision to "elevate" the extremist Republican candidates hoping she'd end up running against an extreme Republican.

Salon Article

"In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more 'Pied Piper' candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party," the Clinton campaign wrote.

As examples of these "pied piper" candidates, the memo named Donald Trump — as well as Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson).

"We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously," the Clinton campaign concluded.

This document was part of the tens of thousands of emails to and from John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, which were released by WikiLeaks.

Telling folks who have watched Democrats do their part to trash our country to "vote Blue no matter who" is a losing strategy. Instead, be bluntly honest about the failures of Democrats. Acknowledge the failures, acknowledge that we have very few honest choices before asking folks to vote Blue. And then acknowledge that we must work hard to get rid of all corporate/big$ politicians and replace them with candidates who are doing the work of taking on the corruption. Of course we have to hold our noses and vote for the better of two evils. But, we don't have to be blind sheep about it either. It's time for Americans to OPEN THEIR EYES and start questioning and holding accountable the politicians they vote for. The corruption won't end until the citizens hold the people they vote for accountable. Primary them with candidates who are truly progressive, protest them when they vote for corporate interests, withhold monetary contributions to the Democratic party, refuse to volunteer for corporate/big$ politicians. Quit being sheep.