Looking for a political home

It’s Not Easy Being Green

Abandoned by the Democrats, I took the #DemExit and looked for a home in the Green Party. It did not work out as well as I had hoped.

“I’m not even really a Democrat, I just vote not Republican.”

- Michael Che, SNL

My current disillusion with the Democratic party began as the establishment did everything possible to undermine the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign for president. My confidence in the party was further eroded when instead of trying to keep Bernie’s supporters in the fold by addressing their concerns, the Democrats told them to get in line and blindly back Clinton. Unsurprisingly, the strategy did not work and enough of an unenthused electorate stayed home on election day to allow Donald Trump to occupy the White House. At this time Berniecrats were forced with a choice — either leave the Democratic party that had abandoned them or stay and fight against the party’s slide towards the right.

I watched the results on election night in the isolation of a room that I had just rented in East Los Angeles. My family…