1. The following is a message that I posted on Facebook the other day (5-27-16) regarding a matter in California (the difficulties for independent voters) but it applies to this situation also:

   This is very important. I would like to add one suggestion at this time. For those of you Californians who are not registered to vote in the Democratic Party, please consider doing so on June 8, 2016 (the day after the California Primary Election). (Or right away, if you are not registered at all.) For those of you who reside in other states, please do so in a similar manner. Most of the states who hold primary elections have already done so. The best and most direct way to have influence on the Democratic Party is to be a member (and to be an activist, if you have the inclination and the time to do so). Most importantly, be a member [and vote]! As I have mentioned in previous posts on these pages: “The Democratic Party is still a ‘big tent’ political party (like the Republican Party [also] used to be when we baby boomers were coming of age in the 60’s and 70’s). The Democratic Party is the oldest and largest political party in our beautiful, great country. It has room for people of many political persuasions — from democratic socialists, social democrats, and liberals on the left to moderates and pragmatists in the center to fiscal conservatives and social conservatives on the right. What do you have to lose?” Almost every person would be at home in this Party. Furthermore, the Party needs you. That is the way that we will make democracy work really well. Please get involved and help out with this fresh, new, struggle to make a better country (and a better world). We baby boomers (as a whole) held that vision in the 60’s and 70’s; the young people of these current times (as a whole) have picked up the mantle and are keeping the dream alive!

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