It is fucking relentless.

[slumcamper]

46. Piss and moan all you want. I'll join you. We made our bed.

Now we lie sleeplessly in it while the right-wing dismantles a shit-ton of progress. The writing on our wall spells W.E.A.K.

Do you think the sacrifice and spilled blood of the ghosts of the working class on the past century and a half hear you? They DON'T.

Instead of adhering to bedrock principles, the Democratic Party has forged an increasingly dysfunctional and electorally unreliable base of old New Dealists, unionists (though diminished), environmental and social progressives and whatever else (dare I say Wall Street?). The identity of the party is diffuse and overextended, and the party is in internal collision and chaos. The Bernie-Hillary split is merely symptomatic.

We are not coming to terms. This is failure. Ask 50 Democrats "What does it mean to be a Democrat?" and you're likely to get 50 different answers.

So yeah--we "achieved" so much we arrived at this point. And now our tent is so big and broad and fractured into so many pieces that we can't seem to unify ourselves on core principles. CORE PRINCIPLES--that's the key. We've failed to define them and promote them loudly and proudly.

Conservatives, in contrast have clung to core principles, e.g., small government, individual liberty, individual responsibility, etc.--very basic but salient ideas that the masses can relate to.

While we twiddle our thumbs and minds in confused indecision, Trump, the GOP Congress and statehouses will make sure we have to spill another century of blood to reach where we were 3 months ago.

Slumcamper is not a happy camper.