2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear Bernie Supporters You've Had Your Fun. Now, Hillary Wants Your Support! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the corporate takeover of OUR party by succumbing to the politics of FEAR. Those days are over now. Progressives will no longer TELL the Third Way leadership of this party, as we have so often before, 'we don't WANT your candidate but if that's our only choice, we will hold our noses and support her/him.'
I cannot think of a worse strategy than telling anyone that if they make sure you can't vote for the best candidate well, okay then, we'll go along with YOUR plans'. THAT is what allowed our party to be taken over by the likes of DWS.
It is OUR fault, the ones who DID vote, the wrong way.
So now, a new era has dawned, Progressives are sending a different message to the DNC and if they do not HEAR it AGAIN, they will lose us the White House as they lost us the Senate and Congress.
You can even succeed here on a relatively obscure political forum in scaring people into voting against their own interests. And if every DUer does that as they have in the past, it won't matter one bit in the Real World.
DWS and the rest of the Third Way leadership refused to LISTEN to voters in 2010 when they supported DINOS and mocked and ignored good Progressive Candidates refusing to help them at all.
The refused again to listen to voters in 2012, even after the voters sent them the first strong message that if they won't listen to the voters, the voters won't listen to them.
Now they are repeating this gross error in judgement and IF Dems lose the WH we know who will be responsible.
The PEOPLE are the ones who call the shots when it comes to elections. NOT a few wealthy operatives with an agenda.
But the people forgot that for a while.
The DNC can either stop attempting to block Sanders from winning this election, start backing him as they are supposed to do in a neutral way, stop PUSHING Hillary on voters, they've already lost over 12% of their membership since 2008, or they will get the full brunt of the anger of what's left of their base when they lose us the WH.