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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders lambasts 'absolute failure' of Democratic party's strategy [View all]DFW
(54,356 posts)"We need the Democratic Party to not be frightened of fighting the GOP, change or the voters of the Democratic Party."
Agreed.
"Your post and a few others seem to say: the 2016 primary is long over (it is) and lets unite, in respectful silence behind the leadership that has been losing elections for 20+ years (with a pitifully few exceptions)."
Ridiculous.
I didn't say unite exclusively behind candidates who are eligible for Social Security. A friend of mine who also happened to be the most successful DNC chair in recent history said in 2009 he thought and hoped that serious future candidates for president should be around age 50. He only threw his support behind Hillary because no one with his wish-credentials stepped up. His wish still stands, and I am with him on this, despite my own looming grumpy old man status. What Howard accomplished was far from pitiful, the way I see it, and his accomplishments were sweeping. He didn't lose much or often.
Nor did I say unite in "respectful (or any other)" silence. And just WHAT leadership did I specify to unite behind? Please remind me? I DID say that we need to unite, and Sanders is being divisive. To his credit, he makes no pretense of being anything else. But he does our cause no favors with this tack at this point. IN 2009, Howard said we need new blood, and I agree. But new or old, NOT Republican-style nose-in-the-air, my way or the highway tactics. They get away with it because they have a media arm that keeps 40% of the voters of the country in a political trance. We have no such thing--to OUR credit. But it means more work and demands more Fingerspitzengefühl than Bernie Sanders or his advocates seem willing to provide at this point.