2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton Delegates holding back Progressive Agenda [View all]politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)down our throats. This Platform is already being referred to as the Democratic Socialist's Party's agenda by RWers. And before someone reports me by saying that I'm using RW talking points. That is what is being said, so to be in denial won't make it go away. All Democrats are not in safe districts like Bernie's utopia of Vermont. A state which by the way whose Single Payer System went belly up recently because there was no way their Progressive Governor could make the numbers work out. American's in general like their change in small bites. They do not like their change shoved down their throats and everytime the Dems seemed to make little gains into a progressive agenda, they get voted out of office. Like after the ACA was passed, we lost the House and some Senate seats. In 2014 we lost the Senate majority. We have a chance to gain back the Senate and also pick up some House seats. If we go too fast too soon, it will turn off some Independents and some of the Republicans who are not planning on voting for Trump and we could find Trump in the White House, because they think Bernie's Democratic Socialist agenda is too radical, and then we'd have nothing.