2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The Democratic Party often needs criticism, those of you who do not are failing your duty to the Party. Bernie Sanders co-founded what is now the largest Democratic Caucus in the Congress and was it's first elected Chair. So you keep saying 'he dissed them'. But in truth he built a caucus with them, from day one, a vital caucus that is extremely useful to minority issues and other progressive initiatives. How is that a 'diss'? He gets elected, meets up with Maxine Waters, Peter DeFazio, Ron Dellums and a couple of others and creates a Democratic caucus with them, then they elect him to Chair the thing, this you call 'consistent dissing'. He votes with this Party, sometimes in error, such as his vote for the Crime Bill, which I opposed but the Party supported. People on DU currently despise that crime bill.
The Party that did DOMA needed to be dissed. The Party that did not pressure Reagan to take action on AIDS so they could play patsy cake with Tip and the Gipper needed to be dissed. I dissed this Party Harvey Milk's first campaign slogan was 'Harvey Milk vs The Machine' meaning the Democratic Party machine in SF. Harvey was running as a Democrat and a critic of the Party. Our Party was not doing the right things. It was late to the dance. The critics were in fact the best of the Democrats, which is very often the case.
I think all the extreme rhetoric is not helpful to anyone and I really dislike those who look at the world as it is and interfere with the sincere discussion of important choices.