And the hits just keep coming.... Bernie Sanders: The Model of the Democratic Party Is Failing

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272. I don't think so. Because we still lost big, popular vote aside.

Maybe the message has to do more with aggressively engaging these forces at the grass roots level, such with the national popular vote movement. Maybe it has to do with trying to get local and state people elected.

I'll tell you what it does NOT have to do with, and that is trashing Bernie. He's one guy.

If we waste all this time and life force trashing Bernie or other left wing progressives in the party, then we are necessarily sacrificing time that might be spent 1) reframing the message, 2) strategizing how to get the message out in the face of the massive and well-funded GOP-corporate propaganda apparatus, and 3) focusing how we can better reach independents.

Again, bottom line, Bernie and Tom Perez are out there slugging, in red states, and trying to make a 50-state strategy happen. Why aren't we helping instead of trashing Bernie?

Thing is, Bernie's message is what most Americans want. Single payer. Expanded Social Security. Free state college up to the baccalaureate level. Stronger environmental constraints for polluters, and heavier emphasis on policies that move the market toward renewables, etc.

So why trash Bernie? He's doing something. So is Perez. So am I, for that matter.

Last word: if you've read your Zinn and Chomsky, you know all about the people FDR called 'economic royalists,' and are aware of how they have used the divide and conquer strategy over and over and over and over and over and over again. All through history. Now it is the Russian fucks that are paying trolls to come in and do bullshit like this.

Please don't take offense, but your righteous indignation might be best spent on the Russian issue and getting Trump impeached instead of trashing Bernie.