IMPORTANT.... From Howard Dean

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96. several problems

1) "whiny" is not acceptable. Them's fightin' words. he reminds me of rahm emmanuel on that. they can both go fuck them selves on that.

2) the candidacy of sanders pointed out something very important. the truly progressive left is a substantial section of the party. not large enough to get the nomination but still substantial and, in my view, growing. and this is not new, nor is the castigation, ignoring, misrepresenting of them, often based on their being "not practical" or not understanding the "reality" of politics

what is missed is that they have a better sense of the reality of politics in the u.s. than the center-right of the party, who want us to play nice and by some set of arbitrary standards of protocol, despite the obvious worsening of conditions for the majority of people, and the failure of the center-right to achieve stable election results. that some of this profound degradation of the public welfare can be traced back to clinton(s) is forgotten, ignored, or denied.

3) that an insurance lobbyist is now lobbying against the truly progressive left (i.e., against single payer) is no surprise and is a degree of impurity in our politics that is worth suffering the slings and arrows of entrenched power.