The 8000 lb elephant in the room: Hillary's 53% unfavorability rating makes her unelectable.

[HassleCat]

55. Keep shoveling! Keep shoveling!

One of my favorite cliché's is the one that says, "When you discover you have dug yourself into a hole, the first thing to do is stop shoveling." We have been shoveling ever since 1980, and our knee jerk reaction to the Reagan landslide. To hang onto congressional seats, Democrats have spoken out against traditional Democratic values at every turn. They voted for legislation that serves the interests of the big financial institutions, the military-industrial complex, and all the rest, while dismantling the New Deal and pushing working people further down. They pursue this strategy because they believe it will allow them to win elections. But it doesn't work. Republicans are gaining steadily, and may soon be in complete control, and they are doing it by remaining true to their traditional values: unregulated capitalism, greed as a moral attribute, making war on weaker nations, etc. They never diverted from their True Path. We could learn something from them, without being like them.