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

[Tom Rinaldo]

196. This is plain wrong:

"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."

Neither you nor I know what "people" didn't want in that regard. At best we can posit what they preferred. So one could say with some justification that the majority of Democrats preferred having Hillary Clinton represent them in the Fall election. But a good deal of those voters would have been happy having Bernie Sanders representing them in the fall had he won the primaries instead. And vice versa.

I know quite a few Democrats who voted for Hillary in the primaries even though they believed that Bernie Sanders would represent their views better in the general election. Those voters chose Hillary (who they were certainly OK with) over Bernie because at the point when they voted they believed that America would never elect "a Jewish Socialist" President. Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong.