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

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60. I'm left of center if not far left

I believe in FDR ideals and am progressive to the core. I'm anti-war and believe in universal basic income. I also believe health care and education are a basic human right regardless of how much money you make. I also think that we need to gut money in politics completely and that all campaigns should be grass roots funded by the people. I also believe in complete student loan debt forgiveness.

On and on.

I believe that what Bernie says is true and I feel he best represents me and what I stand for. Is that wrong? Am I not welcome here despite all the trash talking about him? As someone who is new, there's been many times I have often wondered why I'm here and how we can have a discourse among all of us without resorting to a flame fest.

It gets old hearing about how Bernie isn't that or this when the guy is out there fighting his living ass off for all of us. I also don't understand why these posts don't go against the TOS which specifically mentions Bernie Sanders in it.

Right now we need to have to have one of the most important conversations amongst ourselves where the party is headed, where it's direction should be going and how we best get there.Now I know some will say the party doesn't have to change but the fact remains that party leadership IS having this very conversation and recognizes it has to be had.

I almost left the party because of all the junk thrown at Bernie during the primaries. In the end I didn't and I voted for Hillary. Many on the left aren't happy with a lot of things and like it or not, millennial voters are now the largest voting block in America. A generation who is first to make less than their parents and who is swimming in enormous student loan debt. This is a huge issue which must be addressed because if we don't, we risk losing a whole generation of voters & that scares the living hell out of me.

We're a big tent that welcomes all. Inclusive not exclusive and that's what makes us great as a party but keep in mind, we need to make that tent a bit bigger too.