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In reply to the discussion: It's not about Bernie. It's about the way he wants to change the party. [View all]Warpy
(114,590 posts)The party is going to change and you don't have to like it but you can't stop it. We've been shut out of too many elections we should have won easily, largely because of silly poliicies at the top that withheld money unless the race was absolutely certain. That has to change or there won't be any elected Democrats, period.
We can no longer afford to be the party of the banks and the insurance companies. We can no longer afford to be the party that listens only to business and ignores the fact that wages have been allowed to fall too far for too long. Business always screams at any increase in wages. Six months later, they always boast about how much better they're doing because business has increased.
We can't afford to be a party fixed in amber, its inability to change comforting to conservatives. They've had their run, now it's time for them to step aside for a while.
Change is inevitable. If it makes you feel better, I probably won't like much of it, either. But it will happen and your only choice is to keep grumbling about it and trying to split the party or accept that it will happen and participate in it.