So a Democrat for about five minutes wants a bunch of non-Democrats telling Democrats what to do?

[onehandle]

Cool story, bro.

[LexVegas]

1. He has no chance and no say. nt

[bunnies]

2. Why are you guys still on about Bernie?

He's already lost. Right? He gets no more media coverage now, Right? Move on.

[babylonsister]

5. That's pretty perfect considering Rachel Maddow is right this second

interviewing him. Yea, he's history.

[scscholar]

12. Which is sad considering how he parachuted into the party...

to just get our money.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

25. It's not your money. It's my money, and many other supporters' money.

And it was NEVER going to go to the DNC.

[DrDan]

13. quite common to interview losing coaches following football/basketball games

[seabeyond]

19. Why are we still seeing the constant and never ending attacks on Clinton and the Democratic Party?

Just because you guys lost? You know what that makes it.

[ContinentalOp]

36. Maybe because his supporters keep spamming our Democratic board with his anti-Democratic BS?

[casperthegm]

3. Yup. Adapt or die.

Because the party is dying. Registration is at an all time low of 29% and it continues to fall. Hey, it's your exclusive club. Feel free to keep out the non-establishment, the "naive" youth, and independent voters. Absolutely, DWS and her friends can continue to rig the game as they see fit. Short term, that gets you your candidate the nomination. Long term, continue to watch the party to circle the drain while independents grow. Adapt or die.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. Yes, the OP is right. Democrats should be party members for 30 years before their first vote!

.


I can't believe the jerkwad OPs that support positions that are so anti-Democratic.


While I feel Primaries should be closed, they should allow same-day registration as a way to attract new members.



How better to attract people into the party?

It doesn't leave a bitter taste with undeclared/Indys wanting to switch affiliations and being denied at the polls.



Unfortunately, the institutional designs of the DNC and many states want to act as gatekeepers, for not only the candidates chosen, but to control what they deem as 'faction' by those wishing to realign the party. The Democratic Party is no longer dynamic.

The Democratic Party has always been described as a BOTTOM-UP political party, while the Republicans are TOP-DOWN. Over the past several election cycles, the Democratic Party is becoming structured like the Republican Party... TOP-DOWN.


.

[bkkyosemite]

37. It's lonely at the top!

[dubyadiprecession]

4. Yes, our party is in the midst of being highjacked..

and if they're allowed to, they will fly our party into a building. We need more control in our party's nomination process to protect it from party crashers that will do it harm. We need order or we will end up like the republicans with their teabaggers.

[TM99]

10. Did you really just compare

Sanders supporters to 9/11 hijackers? Seriously!?

[seabeyond]

18. Like the Baggers did with the Republican Party. Yup. Nt

[griffi94]

30. That's exactly what they are

Same extreme fringe issues.

I don't care if Bernie hangs around tho
it's not going to matter.

He has less than no chance and no matter how loud the wailing
of his supporters he's not going to be our nominee.

Hillary steam rolled him.
This wasn't like the back bench he's used to.
He bumped against a well prepared well funded well connected
very able opponent in Hillary

And she buried him.

[seabeyond]

39. Buried him. You know, we have a group on Du... The Populist group. I started reading the group

right before Sanders threw his hat in the ring.

You know the Op that stuck with me the most from that group (I haven't been back to the group since spring of last year). An OP stating that.... They needed to do to the Democratic Party what the Baggers did to the Republican Party.

And lookie, that is just what Sanders intent is. The destruction of the Democratic party the chaos and mayhem.

How well did that baggers serve the Republican Party? Besides making them the clown car and an absolute loss in the Presidential elections.

The people that participated in that group are the loudest and most strident attacking Clinton now.

[griffi94]

42. They're not progressives

They're surely not Democrats.

They're the perpetual victims.
Burn it all down.

The GOP fell to that but that was largely because of Fox News and
othe RW media like hate radio.

The baggers have listen to how they're really victims for 25 years.
The monster got too big for the GOP to control.

That won't be an issue for Democrats.
The malcontents don't have the attention span to stay POd for 20 years.

Bernie is done. And when he concedes they'll disperse and go back
to the Green Party or the Libertarian Party.

[seabeyond]

43. Obama spoke about it a month or so ago. The Democrats get what this is about. I was thrilled

hearing Obama speaking about it out loud. We will not allow the same to us, as the repugs allowed.

[Shadowflash]

31. Yet

I keep hearing we have to vote for HRC come November.

The ONLY reason HRC is winning is because the progressives are locked out of the closed primaries. You insist we're hijacking the party and have no interest in Sanders, yet you expect we're just going to fall in line in the end. Not gonna happen.

[creeksneakers2]

35. Wait a minute

I keep reading that progressives represent the real Democratic Party. Now you say they aren't registered Democrats?

[bkkyosemite]

38. And stolen votes, irregularities, flipping votes, disappearing votes, machines broken,

polls closed, billy boy holding up voting for 2 hours, fraud/vote suppression.

[seabeyond]

40. You do not have to do shit. Personally, I do not expect abso fuckin lutely anything from you.

[oasis]

44. +1

[griffi94]

45. I don't think anybody really cares how you vote

But if you're going to vote for Bernie in November it's going to be as
a write in because he's not going to be the Democratic nominee.

The fringe left has never swung anything and they won't swing this either.

Bernie has zero chance.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Translation: Democracy is too democratic for the Democratic Party.

[NurseJackie]

20. Come join the party and dance with us ...

... or stand outside and yell because you can't hear the band playing and you aren't able to request your favorite tune.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

46. In my state we don't register by party. It's quite liberating.

[NurseJackie]

47. Kinda like an open-marriage, I guess.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

48. My wife isn't quite that open minded.

[JPnoodleman]

7. Hey if you wish to be the OTHER Conservative party.... sure have that attitude. n/t

[DURHAM D]

8. He just proved that he has never been to an actual caucus.

It is the least democratic activity on the planet.

He is an embarrassment.

[Joe the Revelator]

9. You know, not every thought needs to be a thread. nt

[dchill]

11. He's been a Democrat for a lot longer than five minutes.

He has ALWAYS voted like a Democrat. Longer than the other candidate. And, it's a lot longer than 5 minutes before the convention. We are not non-Democrats just because we don't support Hillary. And the phrase "Cool story, bro" is indicative of low intellect.

[seabeyond]

17. He sold his vote to the Democratic party in 1991 to originally be elected. Talk about buying a

politicians vote. And hey... Sanders himself says he is no Democrat and to run as a Democrat would make him an hypocrite. Lol

[enid602]

32. bern

Don't forget about voting for F35 funding, or voting against immigration reform. He does what's good for bernie.

[seabeyond]

41. Minutemen, rah. !!! Yup. Nt

[DrDan]

14. their sense of entitlement is appalling

[HooptieWagon]

15. Doesn't your Reagan statue need polishing?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

28. Phrasing...are we still doing that? :)

[seabeyond]

16. Yup. And so many follow along. Lol. Nt

[CanadaexPat]

21. So a free trade warmonger claims to be a Democrat?

Cool story.

[jillan]

22. Bingo!

[seabeyond]

29. Clinton voted on one trade agreement and voted no. Sanders has voted for every military and funding

But one and well continue drones.

[w4rma]

51. Clinton is the most despicable excuse for a "Democrat", ever. She's a saboteur, not a Democrat. (nt)

[LettuceSea]

23. And thaaat is how you help make the party old and stale.

Yeah, i'm sure the younger generation wants to join a club where the long time party members are smug, domineering and talk down to us....and they're hypersensitive about the younger members having a say because they older members have 'earned it.'

Sounds like something people will want to be a part of!

You guys won the battle. Don't be idiots and lose the war out of pride.

[Newkularblue]

52. This ^

They've spent years remodeling the big tent into a gated community with DWS head of the neighborhood association.

Have you seen those adorable hippies in the field outside the gate? Maybe we should hold a food drive, or donate the old dog blanket or something.

[JackRiddler]

26. Check if your categories are not so rigid...

that it blocks clear thinking.

Though I don't doubt you are a Democrat, through and through, perhaps you have confused this party allegiance with caste. Democrats are not Brahmins, and those who think so aren't helping the cause they think is theirs to lead.

[Nye Bevan]

27. Don't you hate it when the brand new guy immediately tells the old-timers

that they're doing it all wrong?

[Human101948]

34. The old timers really know what they're doing...

Lost the House, lost the Senate, lost 900 seats in state legislatures, lost 12 governorships. Way to go!

[Art_from_Ark]

49. They're well on their way to destroying the party

Democrats of the 2010s are looking more and more like the Whigs of the early 1850s.

[Newkularblue]

54. Then there's that whole mass extinction thing, but hey, nobody's perfect.

[AgingAmerican]

33. Another butthurt OP

[w4rma]

50. Polls say that Bernie has the support of over half of Democratic-leaning voters.

Maybe you should quit alienating our half of the Democratic Party?

When you say that Bernie is not a Democrat, you're telling US that WE aren't Democrats.

[betsuni]

53. K&R