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

[Ken Burch]

245. And we don't have many "far left" types on THIS board, so why are you calling them out here?

My point, throughout the fall campaign, was that we'd have taken a lot more of the votes that either went to Los Verdes, or that didn't turn up at the polls, by running ads that pointed out that a lot of Sanders policies were part of the platform, that THAT campaign hadn't ended in absolute failure and had, in fact, made a positive difference.

Ads like that weren't run and speeches like that weren't given, however.

Instead, the usual "you have to, you have to, you HAVE to" tone was taken, with an additional subtext "you lost, so nothing you did was worth a damn".

Since we were dealing with a lot of new voters and activists, whose efforts we as a party desperately needed to validate if we were to bring them in and add them to our vote totals, this tactic did us far more harm than good.

For the future, let's try a positive approach based on trying to win the argument in the fall.