HRC would have been a great president...but she's never going to run again.

[Ken Burch]

23. I don't support replacing Democratic primaries with caucuses. Never have.

I'd personally prefer all states had primaries...with same-day registration and re-registration.

And I fully agree with you about the importance voter registration, re-registration, and re-credentialing to register and wanting the poor to vote. Everybody on the left agrees with that. Everybody who supported any 2016 Dem presidential candidate agrees with that(ok-everybody but the eight people who were gonna vote for Webb. Those folks are the ones who don't want the poor to vote). That's part of the reason some of us are so outspoken about economic justice and income inequality-addressing those issues helps the poor more than anybody else. They aren't the only issues that matter to the poor, but they are essential to any fight against poverty.

My only disagreements with your post there are with the implications that Hillary was cheated by the caucuses and without the caucuses Bernie's campaign wouldn't have gone anywhere at all.

HRC's campaign did badly in caucuses in '08-the caucuses were where she lost the nomination to Obama. People who were going to run her campaign in '16(let's face it, she was always going to run again that year and everybody knew it)knew caucuses had been the Achilles' Heel in '08, had EIGHT YEARS to re-shoe that heel and somehow failed to do so. They didn't even do the simple, logical thing and hire the people who ran Obama's caucus operation in '08-since Obama's pros were always going to be pro-HRC in '16, it should have been easy to bring his caucus team onboard. Yet they didn't. Nor did they use the influence they had in the process with an obviously pro-Clinton DNC chair to end or at least limit the number of caucuses.

So it was never an injustice that Obama OR Sanders generally beat HRC in the caucuses. It was just the breaks. And the existence of the caucuses in 2016 doesn't mean the support Sanders received wasn't legitimate and widespread.

If we are to win in '18 and '20, we can't nominate anyone from '16, and we need to engage the Sanders coalition and include its economic vision(combined with an anti-social oppression agenda even stronger than our strong '16 message in our program and a foreign policy based on getting into fewer wars and not taking the side of the global rich against the global poor). I'm talking there solely about the economic vision and the supporters, NOT Bernie himself as nominee-he'd be 79 then, he still wouldn't be trusted by those who distrusted him in '16, and I truly think he doesn't even want to run for president again.