If anyone asks, I just don’t tell them who I am supporting for president.

Call it selfish, but I prefer that to telling them my choice and then being subjected to their telling me how stupid I am, and, instead of then discussing policies and agendas, just receiving a litany of personal insults that ignore my political experience and involvement for the convenient diatribe.

I have had it happen.

I was recently told by a young man over a beer that it was old guys like me who sat back and did nothing in the past, who just let things happen, that has resulted in a lack of progress both politically and socially.

Since few where I now live have any idea of my past, I let this pass, but this youngun and his companions who chimed in, were new at politics, and like first year teachers who feel no one has taught until they showed up, I just let it slide off as the exuberance of youth.

Still, the assumption that I have been politically and socially inactive stung a little especially since it was based only on these guys bring now interested in the politics they had previously ignored.

They were hearing from politicians what they wanted to hear, but seemed unaware that to get what they were hearing about and liked would take work, and would not be sudden.

I see good things from Both Sander and Clinton, but promise will only become reality with work.

Bernie Sanders has proudly labeled himself as an Independent his whole political career, and has gotten elected to various political offices as one.

But obviously as primaries are for political parties to select their respective candidate, many states do not have non-party affiliated people on primary ballots, and people, not a member of the recognized parties, can’t vote.

In some states you can sign up to be a member of either party at the primary polling places and then can switch back to independent after you vote. When I was young I did that in my home state.
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But since open primaries are no universal, if Bernie were to be on primary ballots of many states, he would have to pick a party, and he did.

He went Democrat.

But when you finally join a club, you cannot demand that they change the way they have been doing things because you don’t like their ways, or now that you have joined you want things to go your way.

Many of his supporters are new at politics, perhaps attracted by Bernie’s appeal, but they need to realize that politics has been around a while, and procedures have been in place since they were first found to be necessary.

This is not the first political election season.

It may be for those who have either just became old enough to vote, or who have now decided they will after years of indifference, but it is not a new thing.

Yes the system may need to change. Those working the grassroots for years know that.

But simply saying, “Change it now”, is not going to make that happen.

The young and the new voters need to know change will take some time and work, and they need to stick with it. They need to give the next president a congress and senate that will work with him or her to get things done.

If people want Bernie, they will betray him if, after he is in office, they slink into the shadows of being merely judgmental spectators, and the same with Hillary.

The fear is people will vote and then sit back and watch what happens while easing into non-involvement.