Shaun King of The Daily News – “Why I’m Leaving the Democratic Party”

This isn’t just “sour grapes,” as Clinton surrogates contemptuously claim. This a genuine and painful admission from a critical thinking American citizen that the game is nothing more than a rigged sham.

We’ve all had such moments. I’m sure everyone reading this can recall precisely what event it was that “woke them up” to the false reality peddled to us by the mainstream media, politicians and corporate lobbyists (feel free to share your personal stories in the comment section). For me, it was the crisis of 2008 and its aftermath. It affected me so deeply, I quit my Wall Street job and within a year had moved from the place of my birth, New York City, to Colorado. That’s what “waking up” does to you. It hits you so hard, you can never see the world the same way again. You might still be stuck in that same soul crushing job or geography for reasons beyond your control, but your perspective is forever changed.

For Shaun King and many other lifelong Democrats, 2016 is their year of waking up. It took Clinton vs. Sanders to shake them out of their slumber and admit the very troubling state of the Republic. It doesn’t matter when someone wakes up, what matters is that it happened and is happening.

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