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

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187. I fully expect the Democrats to lose big in 2018 and for Trump to be reelected.

Because I see nothing being done on ether front to learn from mistakes. They need Bernie's message. It resonates with people. Further, I like Sen. Harris' framing of health care as a RIGHT (from one tweet that I saw). My opinion on her has risen considerably because of this. So without candidates that capture that essence, or with candidates that are more of the same (Jon Ossoff, like him or not, always sounded to me like someone speaking in focus-grouped talking points), we end up where we are.

A large part of the problem is not Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Bernie Sanders. I've said repeatedly that I think the Democratic Party's inability to connect with voters is due to the gatekeepers, the money people, deciding who is allowed to run and what messages they are allowed to broadcast. The party overall has tied its fortunes to Silicon Valley types, who might be socially liberal as individuals (mostly, though there are exceptions), but they are conservatives when it comes to business, which is why the tech industry is so abusive to workers. The same is true for all corporate money. So the Democrats institute corporate-friendly policies which really do nothing for really people, like the various "job retraining" schemes out there, which do no good for people, but do provide a nice dividend for corporations.

We need a candidate with FIRE. And they all need to start placing blame where it belongs: on Republican complicity with Trump.