Criticizing the DLC, the Third Way and the Blue Dogs is not "bashing Democrats".

[Ken Burch]

84. I didn't call him "the LAST great hope"...And I'm not disputing Hillary's popular vote margin

And I spent the fall doing all that I could to get Bernie's supporters to vote Hillary (the vast majority of whom DID vote for her, btw).

What I said was that, once Liz Warren stayed out, the choice was either Bernie running or their being no economic justice candidate in the primaries at all this year.

You are right that Bernie got in after Liz Warren chose not to run. Bernie himself had WANTED Warren to run. He was never in this for personal aggrandizement. It was just about the issues-issues that would never have been addressed this year(question-how much longer do you think we can survive NOT having any effort made to address excessive concentration of wealth in the hands of the few and excessive corporate control of life? Those issues affect us just as deeply as choice and the other issues your candidate prioritized) and there was no reason for economic justice advocates-at the time of the primaries-to think that the candidate you preferred gave a damn about that agenda I get it that you dislike Bernie, but is it really that hard for you to credit him with sincerity?

Without Bernie, it would have been a coronation process.

We've had two "coronation" nomination processes in this century...2000 and 2004. The results of those cycles are the results we will ALWAYS have when the choice of the party insiders is nominated without serious opposition and when the platform is kept bland and generic.

And not only do coronation nominees seldom win for us.. Fall campaigns where our pitch to voters is not "here's what we have to offer", but "you HAVE to vote for us!" virtually NEVER work for us. We went 0 for 4 running that kind of campaign against Reagan(twice in California, twice nationally). We went effectively 0 for 2 with that kind of campaign against Dubya(yes, we won the popular vote in '00, but it was close enough for Bush to steal the EC because our campaign was safe and bland and empty). So why on earth did our party's strategists make us run the same campaign again? To waste tens of millions of dollars on trying to get "moderate Republican" votes when we always knew none of those people were ever going to vote against their own party's nominee, even if that nominee was Trump?