We need ALL of us...we need the voters who backed BOTH primary candidates.

[Ken Burch]

21. It's simply math. We can't get those peoples' votes by forcing them to abandon all group identity

treat what they care about with dismissive contempt, and reduce our argument to them to nothing but "you HAVE to support the ticket". 1968, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2004 and 2016 proved that that doesn't WORK. Why stay the course if the course doesn't lead anywhere?

Whatever anyone feels about Bernie as an individual(some days I'm not crazy about the way he communicates myself), what his supporters want HAS to be taken seriously, because almost all of it has mass popular support in the country as a whole.

Bernie shouldn't run again...he'd be too old in '20...but what do we have to gain by rejecting his economic ideas, or the idea that working-class voters need to be valued, or the idea that grassroots activists should have a real say in what this country does?

Why not embrace the good parts of that, combine them with the greater emphasis on antioppression politics in the Clinton campaign message(in practice, the candidates were both equally anti-racist, anti-bigotry, anti-oppression and pro-choice)and create a unity message with someone new?

What is it about that idea that scares so many of you?

No one in the Democratic base has anything to lose from it.