To the people who keep saying "get over it" about the far-left's sabotage of our nation:

[Ken Burch]

147. I don't give a damn about Jill Stein...personally, I think she's a "fucking moron".

It's not about protecting her. It's about what we should put most of our energies towards.

To me, the best approach is always to try to find ways to gain more votes, which can only be done by making our party's program more relevant to more people, rather than to spend time lashing out at things and people we can't change.

I also think we're more likely to cut into Stein's vote-which we're going to have to do in some way-by refraining from reactions that inspire a tribal, defensive response from Stein's voters.

That's also the reason that, while I agree with everyone who says that Bernie should not run again, that I think it's a bad strategy to demonize him. Bernie is a grown man and can take care of himself, but we need those of his supporters who did not vote for us, at least the ones who simply became non-voters because they felt the party told them to go to Hell in Philly, to engage with us. Our future lies, in my view, in blending in at least some of his ideas on economic issues and the need to challenge corporate power with our existing social justice agenda-an agenda that was never, despite the canards, in conflict with what Sanders advocated on economics. We can win if we can create some sort of alliance with that movement-I don't think we can win by totally snubbing it and then demanding that those in that movement vote for us anyway-and while I'll be pleading with them to do so even if we try that, I have to speak up now to point out that it's not the most effective approach for us.

None of what I post is loyalty to Stein or to her party's strategy or running pointless presidential campaigns.

I just think positive, enthusiasm-based campaign works for us-it's what elected Obama-while negative campaigning and demands that people vote for us don't.