Who said we give anyone a pass for Iraq?

Since when has that ever been an acceptable meme here at DU?

Don't look to us for justifying your disregard of lost lives to make your candidate somehow more acceptable than the alternative. Right now you still have a choice. Search your own soul for answers, and quit playing the sexism card. You diminish all women when you do this.

Our differences are philosophical. Campaign finance to a grossly obscene extent. Trade differences (I'm very concerned about TPP passing). Her penchant for war and causing further disruption in already delicate regions. The constant lies she's caught telling. Forget the transcripts, I'm not an ignorant fool, I know she'll stand with them over us. And tomorrow she fundraises with her friends at pharma, another issue that hits me at home. Especially since I hit the deductible on my high deductible health plan on Feb 4th.

So please stop with these rediculous testing questions. You have your candidate, and I have mine. You made your choice, and you own it - be proud of it. The good, whatever that is, and all the garbage that comes with it. But do not drag women that have struggled, and continue to struggle against men in to this fight, in comparison to a millionaire that has used her position to promise God knows what to these lobbyists on the backs of our future.

(Sanders group) Boston Globe: Third Way in struggle for the Democratic Party's Soul

Great article from a year and a half ago. I did a title search on DU to see if I could understand what the discussion was like back then, given how much it's changed and there's so much defending or ignoring Wall Street money, and couldn't find it. Either way, it serves as a good peice of background on shifts in the party, and who is driving them.

Btw - If anyone happens to find a thread on this archived, please share a link, and I will add it in the OP.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/10/06/struggle-for-soul-democratic-party-pits-wall-street-backed-think-tank-against-elizabeth-warren/pYk3SXRnZDmpi7C7N4ZpXN/story.html

Oct. 6, 2014 - WASHINGTON —
On a summer afternoon amid the frenzy of the Democratic National Convention in Boston 10 years ago, a group of Washington business lobbyists, political operatives, and a smattering of senators gathered at one of the city’s downtown law firms to hear a plan.

Members of the group worried that, with the end of the Bill Clinton era, the Democratic Party’s centrist wing had lost its way. Over sodas, they pitched a new think tank named for Clinton’s political philosophy, Third Way.

Fast forward a decade: The philosophy, sketched out privately at the Boston office of Brown Rudnick,is now at the center of an intense struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.

Third Way, backed by Wall Street titans, corporate money, and congressional allies, is publicly warning against divisive “soak-the-rich” politics voiced by populist Democrats. Its target: Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator whose rise to power two years ago helped galvanize Democratic grass roots against Wall Street and pushed the issue of income inequality to the forefront.

This is more than a grudge match. At stake for the Democratic Party is the support of middle-class, swing voters who decide elections.

.... Article continues at link above.

There are many things pivotal leaders promised but couldn't deliver on

In their lifetime, but they opened the door for our country to take a leap forward. Each time. Each time we started boiling over, we leaped. We've been boiling for a while. We have a potential leader that is giving these kids a voice. It will be up to their generation to pick up the torch and carry it. Or, they can say screw it, and us - and sit it out.

We can be jaded, crap on them, marginalize them, and call it a day. Just because we let it happen to us, doesnt mean we should let it happen to them. Honestly, they're our future. I'd rather we let them follow a path that respects the importance of being there for each other (and us in our old age), rather than a life of jaded greed that just lets each day pass us by. Wouldn't you rather grow old trying, than live your life knowing that you didn't bother because it wasn't worth the fight?