For Democrats to recover, ALL left-of-center people should be made welcome in the party.

[Warpy]

6. I updated my voter registration tonight to correct an error

and I very nearly left the party affiliation box blank. Because of all the sniping at Sanders and "Bernie bros" and the other pejoratives for those of us who didn't fall neatly into line during the primaries, I'm not feeling particularly welcome in the party these days, nor on DU.

I never had a real problem with Clinton and I didn't have a problem voting for her in the general. Most of the lefties I know here felt about the same, especially once she'd budged to the left. It's why she got that popular vote win, all the supporters of other primary candidates voted for her, whether they supported O'Malley, Sanders, or were holding out for Biden.

I did finally write "D" in the box because I hold out hope that all the whinging about the lack of lock step unity during the primary dies down at some point. Conservatives can't win without the left. The left can't win without the conservatives. It's time everybody recognized that.

That and that politics is the art of taking what you can get.