Whoever Wins The Democratic Primary Is Responsible For Party Unity

But Sanders’ success points to a significant insurgency among Democrats: Clinton faces a far more daunting task than simply nabbing the nomination or winning the election — she must secure the future of the Democratic Party.

Over the next six months, the choices Clinton makes will help determine whether the Democrats will be the new majority party or be consigned to the wilderness for a generation. Can she bring Sanders supporters into an enduring majority, or will she alienate them and leave a fractious, fractured party in her wake?

The challenge — and opportunity — for Clinton comes from the unusual political conditions in the U.S. The two major parties are shuddering through a period of realignment. As the coalitions built in the 1980s and `90s break apart, a throng of interest groups are scrambling to shape new partnerships that will take their place.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-party-unity_us_573e26fce4b00e09e89e81db?section=politics

Its understandable to get angry at the OPs in GDP

but no one in GDP is speaking for either candidate.
Everyone is speaking only for themselves.

So we shouldn't blame the candidate...no matter what their supporters say on DU.

One positive from NV

this will help put the nails in the coffin for the caucus system.

First get them saved, then get them baptized, then get them registered to vote

I didn't know the backstory on how evangelicals became a force for the right.

But it looks like the final straw was school integration...and abortion was an after thought.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/samantha-bee-donald-trump-evangelicals_us_5739d7e2e4b08f96c18396a2?ir=Politics&section=us_politics&utm_hp_ref=politics

Maybe all the voters registration crap happens all the time

we just don't notice it because we aren't sensitized except during important elections.

My registration is intact as is my son's.
My husbands' registration is MIA.

He and I have voted side by side for years.
However he does have a common name...so maybe he's being confused with someone else who's moved out of state or something.

a read you will enjoy

Apparently the left is to blame for the rise of Trump

The American Revolution, unlike the French Revolution, placed liberty above equality. For the Left, equality is more important than all else. That’s why so many American and European leftists have celebrated left-wing regimes, no matter how much they squelched individual liberty, from Stalin to Mao to Che and Castro to Hugo Chávez. They all preached equality. It took generations, but the Left has succeeded (primarily through the schools, but also through the media) in substituting its values for America’s.

So, then, thanks to leftism and America’s taken-for-granted success, most Americans no longer understand what it means to be an American. Those who do are called “conservatives” because they wish to conserve the unique American idea. But conservatives now constitute not only a minority of Americans, but a minority of Republicans. That is the primary reason Donald Trump — a nationalist but not a conservative — is the presumptive Republican nominee.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435195/donald-trump-won-because-many-republicans-arent-conservative

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435195/donald-trump-won-because-many-republicans-arent-conservative

Once again, the GOP never finds itself at fault. Its always something else.

Obama’s Legacy: History Will Not Look Kindly On The GOP

Since Barack Obama is a Democrat, and as such is the de facto leader of the Democratic Party, his party shares the glory of his achievements. And if history should be so inclined, it will bear the burden of his failures.
http://americannewsx.com/hot-off-the-press/gop-sabotage-obama-administration/

HBR article Why We Pick Leaders with Deceptively Simple Answers

Freud’s theory was both a challenge to so-called “Great Man” theories of leadership and an explanation of their enduring appeal. Behind every Great Man, he argued, there is an anxious group craving clarity, deliverance, or revenge.

What makes groups select leaders, in short, is not judgment but rather a force entirely opposed to judgment: a wish. “It is impossible to grasp the nature of a group if the leader is disregarded,” he wrote, because it is through picking leaders that groups bring their nature to life.

https://hbr.org/2016/05/why-we-pick-leaders-with-deceptively-simple-answers?utm_campaign=HBR&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Saw a cute summary of Sanders policies

“Bernie Sanders doesn’t have policies. He has letters to Santa Claus.”