Post mortem thread. Why did we lose?

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123. Alright.

The democratic party lost tonight because for the most part the party is composed of losers. it's not this demographic or that one, it's not any one magic button, it's everything. It's systemic. You know how people here will tell you to "hold your nose ang vote?" Well, that smell you're protecting your nose from is gangrene. Internal rot.

The democratic Party has abandoned the left, has ditched progressivism, retreats from the liberal label at every turn. I'm willing to believe that this isn't out of a sincere desire to do so, on the part of all the candidates. But the infection is clearly circulating around the heads of our party. Word from on high is that liberalism is damaging, avoid it. Progressivism is chancy, don't even try. leftism is suicide, stay away!

After all, you heard Rahm Emmanual, we're all a bunch of "fucking retards," we liberals, and progressives, and leftists. Embracing the right is a winner, the party leads tell us. Again and again, they tell us that they need more money, always more and more money, but does policy ever change?

As others on this thread are saying, if people want republican policy, they will vote republican. And when republican policies are all that's offered? Same thing, they'll go with the experts on that policy; republicans. And of course the problem isn't just the policy (or lack of it) - it's the sources of that policy. it's time that we, as voters, turn our backs on the conservative and centrist dems who have consistently proven that they only seek office for reasons of self-interest. Lop off the dead limbs. Tuck down the big tent a little bit, it doesn't need to be that big.

So long as the Democrats keep being the center-right accommodation party, they will keep losing. And I don't think there's anyone in the party who can light ass-fires quite like Obama did in 2008, so, we have two years to figure out how to get the right-lighters the fuck gone and bring the left back - and with it, all those "undecided" voters who are undecided primarily because they can't see a useful difference. We can't rely on a personality to pull us through 2016, we need policy and principle.