Our politics has become beyond manipulating to the point it is inhumane to human survival. What has happened such that our system manipulates people so they have no empathy or respect? Even the Democratic Party is ready to blame “dirty hippies” if we refuse to be manipulated into voting for Clinton.
I grew up in a manipulative traumatic family and hostile school environment until recently (although the absolute worst was in high school and all of last year).
I really hate how families have “manipulated love” and end up violently abandoning lgbt people and people who are different.
I know exactly what it feels like. That is why I have been so emotional and abrasive in my diaries often. It comes from chronically unmanaged Asperger's and ptsd from multiple sources getting severe over time. I am finally able to better manage them.
Your life experiences as progressives are my experience too.
It is time for Bernie Sanders who shares my vision and all of yours to be president.