So Tell Me, FUCKING AGAIN, How The Democratic Party Has To Change.

[Ken Burch]

268. I was never an advocate of primarying Manchin. And I don't live in West Virginia.

I haven't denounced the idea because I don't live there(and therefore don't feel I have a right to shake my finger at anyone in that state)and because I seriously doubt that anyone in that state lives and dies by what I post here-nor should anyone else really, which makes the blowback I get even more unjustified.

I'm actually glad that Manchin now backs single payer...that will probably increase his support at the next election.

We don't need to recruit the old conservative wing of the party, a wing that defines itself by saying "no" or "only a quarter of a loaf" to what most Dems in most of the country support.

And progressives made a lot of gains Tuesday as well-it's not as though the only seats we flipped were those who where the candidate said "I'm no damn liberal". In fact, Northam would probably have won by a larger margin if he hadn't made the pointless pander on the "sanctuary cities" issue-the votes he added were almost all in NoVa, where the voters wouldn't be impressed by that.

I'm glad we won. The takeaway from that should NOT be "Fuck you, Bernistas".

Whatever you say about the guy, we need his voters and we need at least some of his ideas.

The only votes up for grabs are going to be voters who are hurting, and they won't be impressed by us being "pro-business".