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

[Jim Lane]

149. The purpose of elections is to get better government.

This isn't a football game, with some guys in light jerseys, some guys in dark jerseys, and you just root for your team. Winning the election is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

In the United States today, better government will almost always be served if a Democrat defeats a Republican. But, often, better government will also be served if a good Democrat defeats a bad Democrat in the primary.

Sometimes, these two ideas are in tension. You could have directed your post at everyone who, before the Democratic convention in 2016, contributed to Chafee, Clinton, O'Malley, Sanders, or Webb. Just think, those millions of people could have saved their money and spent it instead on turning out GOP slime. Well, the answer is that there's value in getting the best candidate nominated. People agree about that, even when they disagree about which candidate is better, as they did in 2015-16.

BTW, Nina Turner did not trash talk Sherrod Brown or Tammy Baldwin. I could elaborate but there is obviously no hope that I will talk you down off your irrational hatred of Nina Turner.