How many on the progressive wing of the Democratic party were duped by Putin?.

[Ken Burch]

26. Not "how it sucks"(I never use or even think phrases like that)but how it needs to change

for the better.

There's nothing wrong with suggesting change after an election that didn't go our way, and I've never hated the party.

The Reformation/Inquisition thing was a metaphor.

We need more votes in 2018 and 2020. In addition to making sure our base is registered and brought to the polls(they can't be mobilized solely by saying "stop Trump!" and keeping everything else vague), we need to reach out to people who could be voting for us but haven't yet. There are positive and creative ways of doing that without betraying anybody. None of this is zero-sum.

We be for JUSTICE, in all forms.

We can stand for all left out in the cold by the power structure.

We can defend the idea of the common good AND the need to take some things out of the realm of "market values".

And we can do all of that no matter who we nominate, by creating a common program platform and expecting whoever we choose to campaign on it(which is how we should always handle what our party stands for).

It's too late to be lashing out at people for 2016. Some made choices they should not have made, but that's the past. Unity for the future matters far more than repentance for the past.