2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Blaming Sanders: Why Democratic Party Unity is Officially Impossible [View all]GRhodes
(162 posts)that your argument that there should be compromise means a continuation of the things I identified. You don't have to do anything, but if you don't offer real solutions, peoples' responses might be to leave the party (which is happening), to become an independent, or to go to something like the Green Party. A much larger share of the public is now independents. If your attitude is to say, oh well, be gone, good luck. You'll exist in a shrinking bubble. The problems we are dealing with are structural, if you don't offer structural change you aren't offering real solutions. If you have ideas different than Sanders' ideas that deal with those structural issues, fine, present them. Clinton doesn't offer solutions to structural problems, she offers (at most) tinkering around the edges, and that's if she gets everything she wants and even plans on truly fighting for those things. I doubt both of those things, and I am far from alone.
I've said what I want to say.