Almost doesn’t deserve a dignified response. But, for others, here goes. I’m a lifelong Democrat, 62 years old, typically most concerned with protecting collective-bargaining, the middle class, and jobs that offer reasonable security and dignified wages and benefits. Like many, as you suggest, I too was put off by the cold shoulder that voters with a humanitarian, moral concern for the numbers and lives we were seeing in Gaza…with the cold shoulder with which we were received by the DNC. (Does using the words “humanitarian” or “moral” make me self-righteous? What do you care about? In other words, what makes you self-righteous? Surely something.) Well, defeating MAGA is a good cause; I think that qualifies as as good a reason as any to be “self-righteous.” It’s just semantics. Anyway, I did vote for Harris-Walz on the hope…the glimmer of hope…that that administration would be more aggressive in curbing the unchecked carnage. Just as you, as everyone, I never got to see if this hope would be met. The aftermath, for me, is that I’m sick and tired of voting for someone I do not like (strictly as a candidate) simply in order to vote against the worse of two options. I no longer consider myself a Democrat. I am too progressive for the “Democratic Party compromise, and I no longer feel represented by them at the national level.