Stunning polls show Sanders soaring while 'TrumpCare' crashes

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214. Yes. Agree with practically everything. But we do

need the humility to realize that we are not inventing anything here, just providing more of a critical element we desperately need--increased citizen involvement in the electoral process.

Our "external forces" include thousands of Democratic Party power centers around the nation, people and organizations whose years of successful involvement give them real political expertise, circles of connections, understanding, and power. They come from various backgrounds, most-well-to do white, but also many divisions of every identity group in the party. When Hillary was considering running for U.S. senator from NY, she first visited and consulted a short list of power-node people around the state to see if they would be interested in backing her. A first step long before she planned her first appearance before regular voters.

That's just reality. And these people aren't going away. They shouldn't. They're not all bad or stupid, or all good either of course, but they provide a competence and stability that our nation desperately needs right now.

What I'm saying is, the education we speak of needs to be based in reality. It needs to start with educating ourselves individually about what we will accept and what we have to accept, recognizing that we will need to cooperate and compromise with all the other interests in our party and what they will accept.

Understanding and acceptance of reality when others don't get out of our way is critical because only an increase of 5% in Democratic voters across the nation would sweep the nation in our favor. We can't afford that 5% to fail in understanding and commitment and instead become angry and discouraged and not show up on election day. Like in 2016.