It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[NanceGreggs]

77. Yet another great fallacy ...

... that came out of the last primary, and the last election.

Hillary won the nomination because more Democrats wanted her as their nominee. Those primary votes came from far leftists, the left-leaning, centrists - and people who don't self-identify as being part of a category, but simply vote on the basis of who is running at any given time, what he/she stands for, his/her chances of winning the GE, and a myriad of other reasons.

This neat little packaging of Democrats into categories is beyond political naivete, and to assume that individuals always vote according to what category people like you place them in is downright ludicrous.

"We tried to nominate a progressive but the centrists won."

Uh, no. Some people tried to nominate who they decided was a "progressive", and were out-voted by Democrats - of all stripes - who didn't want that "progressive" representing them in the general election. And for many of us who didn't want that particular person to be our nominee, we made that decision based on reasons that have nothing to do with what category you've decided we neatly fall into.

This "the centrists won" meme is already an old, worn-out cliche that simply ignores reality - that reality being that the vast majority of Democrats saw your "progressive" candidate as falling far short of what was needed and wanted in a nominee.

To declare that Hillary only won the nomination due to "centrists" is not only ridiculous on its face, it absolutely reeks of an attempt to divide Democrats by categorizing them into those who were allegedly against your "progressive" candidate as opposed to being FOR the candidate they ultimately chose based on HER credentials.

As for that "losing cause", HRC won the popular vote by three million votes - votes cast by actual citizens, not EC votes that were awarded based on an arcane "winner take all" state-by-state count - and that was despite Russian interference, Wikileaks bullshit, fake news, Comey's "announcement", gerrymandering, and voter suppression in Democratic strongholds.