Enough with the scolding please.

[LiberalLovinLug]

107. We see it differently

You may not consider them Democrats, but we still need their votes. These may be people that, if you attended a protest rally on say, climate change inaction, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, any number of more liberal concerns...they may just be the person next to you in that march. These are people that have many if not all of the same concerns as you do politically, they just gave in to their frustrations at their own perceived views that Democrats are too much controlled by big money interests. To the point that they couldn't even hold their nose and vote D. That the party needed a full rebuild.

These folks can be won back. At least enough of them, if the party shows it is listening and moving in the right....or rather the correct...direction.Which I am please to see them do, as they are finally allowing the left wing of the party, the wing that is usually always right in hindsight, a bigger voice, including Bernie Sanders. For too many years, decades even, the Democrats have been the party of defensiveness. Its time that we are the ones that knock. With bold ideas. And show the American public what could be theirs.

On your point about the pressure may have worked if Hillary had gotten elected. I believe that many who voted third party, or even chose to stay home, probably did so believing the MSM that there was simply no way that she would lose. I know that is not an excuse for them, and they should all be ashamed, but it is a likely reason. That many of those that voted Green did so as a 'shot across the bow' as a way to remind Hillary that she'd better pay attention to those that have been frustrated with the direction of the party in the last couple of decades or so. I believe that many would not have engaged in a protest vote if they had known how close it was going to be.

Now we can hate on these people that made this mistake. If they come to us and say "I'm sorry, I just wanted to send a message to the Democrats", to react to that by saying "Sorry, you will never be a Democrat in may eyes, go vote Green again, we don't want you", well, I think that is a mistake.