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

[Ken Burch]

136. I've never defended Jeff Weaver.

As I understand it, he was the one who pushed for writing off the Super Tuesday states, the decision that fed the false meme that Bernie didn't even WANT black votes.

As far as I'm concerned, it's Weaver's fault that Bernie wasn't nominated.

As it happens, Our Revolution simply happens falls under the 501(c)4 category. Why is that such an important thing to you? You posted that fact in response to my post as though it, in and of itself, proves everything anyone needs to know about the organization. That is why I responded as I did. I'm not sure 501(c)4 means anything important at all, or even if they had the option of choosing another category.

It's not as though any larger progressive good could ever come from Our Revolution ceasing to exist. What effect could that have other than pushing everything to the right.

As to "economic anxiety"-Trump didn't have to carry voters 50k and less in income level for it to matter. If turnout dropped in that demographic, as I'm fairly sure, and if HRC's votes share in that demographic was significantly lower among those voters than Obama's had been, we can still conclude that economic anxiety played a significant role. What purpose is served by insisting that it was bigotry and xenophobia and nothing else? What better strategies does insisting on the primacy of those factors lead us to?

It feels to me as though there's still an insistence that we have to choose between speaking out against bigotry and fighting voter suppression OR addressing economic justice issues more strongly than we did. Why assume we can't take strong stands on social justice, economic justice and voters suppression at the same time? From what I've seen, the argument for discounting the economic aspects of the result is an argument for keeping the party centrist on economic and trade issues when we don't gain anything from staying in those places, and when changing on those issues would not betray the "social justice" agenda in the slightest.

As a party, we are in fact capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.