Yesterday some top Dems supported other Dems with Right to Life views

[Warren DeMontague]

56. so it dials back to being pissed that Bernie wants to "change the party" or whatever.

He is being held to a different standard--- because people are mad about that.

So again, this all has to do with residual primary crap or these other old fights and yadda yadda yadda. I'm stating what is bald-faced obvious, here.

Look, personally, I do think we need to change the party-- and I'm not convinced Bernie Sanders is the person to do it.

I think we need younger leaders, more leaders from the West Coast, we sure as shit need to embrace reproductive choice and not run away from it- most Americans are, after all, pro-choice.

I have long argued that the way for us to win long-term is to define ourselves as the party of personal freedom, undercut the libertarians on their left or social flank, and stand in stark opposition to the crusty old theocrats and jesusbaggers of the GOP.

We should be the party of reproductive freedom, of ending the drug war, of defending the rights of citizens to live their lives on their own terms and if they're terminally ill to define how they choose to exit, not force them to live and die according to the dictates of the state or someone else's "God".

I don't want Bernie Sanders in charge of the "new" Democratic Party, I'd much rather have someone like Gavin Newsom who understands west coast technological questions and unequivocally supports marijuana legalization. Pro-choice, anti-censorship, pro-4th Amendment, etc etc.

A perfect example of what I'm talking about is during the previous election when strong encryption was an actual issue related to points of policy, and it was clear that pretty much NONE of the candidates- not Trump, not Hillary, not Bernie- even really knew what they were talking about when it came up.