Democrats have nothing to gain be telling Bernie and his supporters to go to hell

[Ken Burch]

261. I've proved I live in the real world.

In Alaska, "those planks" flipped a state House seat in Juneau that had been GOP for years, and flipped enough other seats to the Dems to allow the party to form a coalition that ended twenty-two straight years of partisan GOP control.

They elected Dems in a lot of other places.

And even though he ended up supporting Hillary, Bill DiBlasio was elected mayor of New York in a landslide on a Bernie-like platform in 2013.

In the REAL real world, the national party ran exactly the kind of fall campaign you want the party to run everywhere-no MENTION of the planks the Sanders campaign added, even though all of the ideas in those planks are popular in the polls-no effort to connect with young Sanders people other than to keep effectively shouting "You lost. You totally failed. All that you did was worth nothing. Now you HAVE to support us, and expect nothing in return". Almost no mention of even the small number of progressive ideas HRC supported(other than choice-which was treated as the ONLY issue that mattered). And an endless, pointless string of attack ads, even though we knew the whole time that those ads weren't swinging any voters our way and were only solidifying Trump's support by allowing him to pretend to be a victim.

We lost to Trump doing it your way...IN THE REAL WORLD!

And we might win tomorrow, but all that proves is that that's how you might win a seat like that. There are virtually no other seats anywhere close to being like the Georgia 6th in which we would even be remotely competitive.