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[MineralMan]

16. Yes. There will also be elections in 2017.

As Democrats, we need to be completely invested in ALL elections. We cannot establish progressivism if we only focus on presidential elections. We absolutely must become involved with every election from local races for city and county elections to state and federal legislative elections. We cannot sit at home in 2018 or even in 2017 and believe that we don't have to be active in those elections. We've done that in the past far too often, and we pay for it dearly.

Every office is important, no matter how local. It is by electing people at the local level, in county government, state legislatures and congressional races that we can move forward. It is only by doing that that we can move forward.

It's time to start thinking about the next election, not the last one, and to try to avoid internecine battles and focus, instead on defeating Republicans everywhere, in every election.

If we do not do that, we will ultimately lose the entire country to the right-wingers by insisting that only perfection is acceptable. There is no perfect candidate, and never has been.