I very rarely hear her come up as a young star in the party outside of my lefty (not kinja #resistance left, actual left) internet circles. I am not sure why. She is a young, multiracial, female, veteran with strong Progressive chops, a history of winning elections she was not expected to.

This is why I hate the demonization of Sanders supporters. Despite all the insincere reductiveness of the term “BernieBro” - a Clinton slur her campaign also tried to paint Obama supporters with in 2008 - it now becomes commonplace to associate real, strong, liberal, progressive policy that Sanders was actually…

If you tell people your plan to make their lives better, and treat them like adults, you might find they vote for you

I understand your point that not everyone who dislikes Bernie still having reservations about Clinton but this article mentions Clinton 7 times so forgive me.

You want to offer your definition? Because to me “getting things done” as a House Representative or Senator is getting policies that match either the beliefs that you ran on or the desires of your constituents passed into law? Or am I thinking of another profession?

You going to read my link about how he got things done or continue to spew your talking points?

Sorry, you buried the lead between between telling me I know absolutely nothing and then making up my political opinions.

Okay then. You seem to have no interest in addressing what I am actually saying but that’s fine, I will press on.

My point is we are trying to work with you. We are not sitting around we are trying to put forward and support candidates and it seems to me that Democratic party wants our blind support towards candidates they approve of while offering nothing in support for candidates that aren’t milquetoast centrists that have…

Of the special elections the Democratic party threw $ at only the bland Centrist John Ossoff and still lost. If that money had been spent supporting other candidates (some of whom happened to represent the “Bernie” wing of the party) maybe things go differently.

My point is the Democrats seem more content to lose to…

But why was he such a hard sell?

Ok. So he should have run on his own party? Ignoring how both the Republicans and Democrats made sure no one will ever get as close as Ross Perot again - You would have been more pissed when you lost even bigger with him in the race as a 3rd party candidate.

We are trying so very hard to reach out to you but you are so pissed at our gall to not have been excited about Hillary Clinton that you seem to want to want none of it. “Doing the leg work” does not mean coming over and supporting thing we do not believe in.

Yep. Don’t want to do the work. Like when they poured support into Quist’s campaign in Montana while the Democratic Party nationally did nothing until his opponent tackled a journalist?

Fuck off or address the points made in the comment

and his policies led directly to an increase in the mass incarceration of minorities in this countries but its entirely okay cause he is “Handsome. Confident. Good eye contact.”

Yeah, because that won’t result in non-party members wrecking havoc with their primary process by intentionally voting for weak candidates.

I’m going to ignore the proto-stockholm syndrome inherent in your second statement and instead focus here on my reference of “you” in the first post was the general form of “you” not “you” specifically.

The State Parties have a say. In CA we have a semi open primary - If you are registered to a party then you vote in that primary, but if you have no party affiliation you can select which ballot you choose but there is party opt out (non-affiliated voters cannot vote in Republican primaries, for example).

The Democratic Party ran on not being Donald Trump.