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Ninsianna

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7. Priorities USA is a Democratic Party PAC, it dares to discuss the future of the party?
Tue May 2, 2017, 04:35 PM
May 2017

What's with the sneering "pro-Hillary" tag added here? They supported the candidate chosen by the voters.

A party PAC wants to discuss the future the party? Not some outside group that has no wish to join it, or work with it, that attacks it, denigrates it and seeks to "remake" it into something that its members rejected and whose current goals are angering the party's base and its core principles?


There is no need for the divisiveness here, and the Sanders wing seems to be actively rejecting any analysis that addresses ALL of the factors at play here, including the damaging falsehoods about rigging by the party, the obsession with emails, the Russian provided wikileaks and the failure to immediately come together and try to undo the damage done in the primary fight. Those were the fissures that allowed in the Russians, the racists and the other players here.

The economic stuff is utterly ridiculous when the policies of HRC and the platform were things that would have addressed the economic issues, the DNC bent over backwards giving that contingent their say in the platform. If you've been given a voice in these issues, and deference in the platform despite a massive loss, then don't you have a bit of responsibility to rally your voters strongly to come out and vote? The majority did of course turn out, as they were expected to, the majority who voted against HRC weren't dumb enough to be fooled by the anti-HRC idiocy out there, they simply liked Bernie better, a lot of people liked both of them.

It's what happens when people don't bother to look at the policies, the MSM ignores issues completely and the lukewarm endorsements didn't undo the damage that had been done. Perhaps in an atmosphere without the toxic interference of foreign agents (there were quite a few that were and are still quite active in keeping the divisions alive), this would have been fine, but it was meager in comparison to the forces at work here, and the knee jerk viciousness against Warren and even Sanders was pretty clear.

ALL of the issues need to be addressed here, including the dangerous way that the left was undermined by the purity brigade marching in with their foreign accents, inveigling their way into the passionate, but not terribly educated folks who didn't quite realize what was at stake here, since they didn't realize it affected them personally.

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