Why is the attitude towards Bernie, 'stay out of the way if you're not going to join the party',.. [View all]

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Instead of, 'you vote with the D's as much as anyone so why don't you help start winning again'?

Especially when the party needs many supporters of Bernie's movement to vote for D's in the future.

I think it's funny that yesterday a lot of people were hopeful that Perez made Ellison Deputy chair of the party to bring people together, when a lot of the people that wanted Ellison as the head of the DNC really have no interest in the Democratic party. They are Independents that think the two party has failed them. Uniting means nothing for these people because they are only interested in a movement that gets rid of the status quo. They are not interested in being brought into a system that they see as a failure unless the party starts to change for what they see as the greater good.

And, throwing a bone to Ellison will mean nothing to them.

I'm not saying I agree with them, or that a lot of them aren't wrong with their messaging. I'm just saying that these people, and there are a lot of them, are not interested in party unity because they're not interested in the party at all. They have moved on from the two-party system and are only interested in what they perceive as real change.

The Democrats don't have to change because of these people. It's there choice. But, if they want to start winning again they need to recognize that the outcome of yesterday will not help at all.

I know and work with a lot of these people (many that are under 35) so I here much of what I wrote above quite a bit.