Just when things are looking dire for Trump

[BainsBane]

25. Open about what?

That the votes of white men count more than the majority? That the Democratic Party and Democratic VOTERS have the audacity to prefer and vote for Democrats? That we dare to care about issues like reproductive rights, civil rights, and gun violence rather than pretending white men who earn more than 99.7% of the planet are exploited? That the Democratic Party dares to promote policies that direct resources to the most needy rather than the most entitled? That Democratic voters dared to vote for a competent and experienced candidate who was actually a Democrat?

The GOP didn’t want Trump to be the nominee. They did everything they could to stop him, but he still won. He won because a majority of Republicans turned out to support him. To pretend that a few emails signaling Democratic preference for an actual Democrat who had worked hard for the party for decades a non-Democrat was somehow determinative is a cop out.

Clinton won by 4 million votes. Her campaign invested in voter turnout, in local offices and organizers. Sanders spent the huge majority of his record-breaking fundraising haul on advertising, which has limited effectiveness at best. Of course he lost. How could he have done otherwise with that campaign strategy? Elections take a lot of hard work, drudging, daily doorknocking in snowstorms and the rain. Vigorous voter registration and turnout campaigns. That is how Clinton won, not because Kremlin hacked and altered emails show some DNC officials preferred her. The total 2016 fundraising of the DNC was 1/3 of what Sanders raised, and that money only came in when they opened donations up to corporate donors. The DNC was anemic, hardly capable of rigging an election.

The whole debate meme is bullshit as well. Eichenwald took apart all those myths months ago.
http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044 Emails, debates, one bullshit excuse after another. And that is what they are: excuses for failure.

This is the exact same shit the Kremlin pushed to put Trump in office. That we have public figures using Kremlin hacked and altered emails to curry favor with a self entitled minority is reprehensible.

Divide away. They want a war over control of the party, they’ve got it. I’ve held my tongue (held iin comparison to what I have thought). They want to refight their 4 million vote loss, they can have at it. They certainly have persuaded me of the consequences of their efforts. That is why I have the list of Our Rev endorsed candidates for my upcoming local elections, and I’m going to systematically vote for their opponents. And there are many more elections to come. Of course, that is why Nomiki Konst is so committed to replacing primaries with caucuses, so that the poor, people of color, shift workers, elderly, disabled, and women with childcare obstacles can’t participate. If they don’t surrender their votes to the self-entitled, they lose their rights. Then finally the Dem Party can get back to good old days of the 1930s, when only the right sort of people were represented.