Stop. Letting. Them. Frame. The. Fucking. Narrative. Don't let them gaslight you!

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49. This cannot be repeated enough!

Even with EVERYTHING they threw at her (when has ANY candidate EVER been so deliberately vilified by so many?), Hillary still won overwhelmingly in every way but the EC. In states that were "blue" for Prez O but that seemingly voted "red" this time around, she lost by comparatively tiny margins. And yes, the election was STOLEN.

I am SOOOOOOOOO tired of Dem self-flagellating and of anyone who promotes it - especially here.

Is the Dem Party perfect? No. But we are MUCH better than the alternative can ever even hope to be and we need to move forward - not go backwards.

Let us improve on what we do best and become stronger where we are weak. Where we are weak is in creating and/or strengthening state and local networks, encouraging candidates to run for office at those levels, and supporting their candidacies so as to nurture our ideals from the ground up. This is a job that NEVER stops. It can't just happen during election cycles; it must be an ongoing process even during off-years. Howard Dean understood this well. Too many Dems still don't.

Most importantly, we should NEVER desert or betray our traditional bases of minorities, women and labor. Anyone else is welcome to join with us and move forward together. But we should NEVER seek out the thugs, racists and radical evangelicals to the detriment of ANY of our bases. We should NOT pander to any group that does not support equal rights for all - and this includes reproductive rights. Period.

If we Dems can do what we should for our own bases, any who are not among them now and who still have functioning brain cells just might wake up on their own.