If we let ratfuckers like Sam Seder lead us around, we can expect the same result he fought for last election

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68. I go back to that majority you want

...the party is a coalition of interests.

Our members would caucus and organize their majority around their Democratic agenda and produce legislation related to that out of committees to the floor to vote on.

We've passed landmark legislation with a 'big tent' throughout decades, often in slim majorities.

Remember Obamacare and the way we organized that through reconciliation? That happened with both progressive caucus members and blue dogs voting together.

I get that you want the ideal. It's basically the brass ring for so many of us. But that's now how elections have worked out. We've advanced progressive changes through our Democratic majorities and presidencies myriad times, many of them landmark and monumental.

It's what Democrats do. Not perfect; not in lockstep, because, we're not a cult; but as a coalition of like interests who know how to move the country forward.

All of that happened over my lifetime under our 'big tent,' notwithstanding what we've yet to accomplish.