By Our Revolutions head says, Democrats have lost their souls. She will make them find religion.

[Jim Lane]

46. You equate "primarying sitting Democrats" with "Naderism" -- which is totally absurd.

Going through the Democratic primaries is the exact opposite of what Ralph Nader did. If Nader had run in the Democratic primaries, as he should have, instead of in the general election, then Gore would have become President.

You're very upset that a liberal, Paula Swearingen, is seeking the Democratic nomination in West Virginia. Democrats in West Virginia are free to argue that Manchin is a better Senator than Swearingen would be. They're also free to conclude that, although Swearingen would be a better Senator, Manchin would be a better candidate, because he can win the general and Swearingen can't. (I believe that Hillary Clinton got some votes of this type -- Democratic primary voters who would have preferred to see Bernie Sanders as President but voted for Clinton because they thought she had a better chance of beating Trump.) Finally, of course, the Democrats in West Virginia are free to vote for Swearingen if they commit the terrible offense of disagreeing with you.

You've essentially admitted what I wrote in #33. You're among the many Democrats who say that those who are to your left shouldn't run against an incumbent in the Democratic primaries and shouldn't run on any other lne in the general election. In other words, we should ignore the (small-d) democratic process, and instead just sit down and shut up. The practical effect of your vitriol toward Democratic primary fights will be to drive some progressives to the Green Party or to a new party on the left -- a result that, IMO, would be bad.