It’s a revisionist myth that 2006-early 2008 Obama never professed any progressive policy preferences, and that left-leaning voters just projected them onto him. He did profess a lot of progressive/populist ideas, he simply abandoned them later. And no, I never thought Obama was progressive in 2006-2008 because he had…

His preemptive concessions over healthcare reform let a lot of people down. He made the mistake of trying to be reasonable to the unappeasable.

Is that really how you remember Obama’s foreign policy? You have a hilariously edited version of it that omits all the bad stuff and broken promises, and there was lots of that.

Watching $1 and $5 donations roll in during his speech Saturday night made me emotional. So. Many. Broke. People. But still willing to throw that $1 in. People that haven't really ever donated anything. 

The reason Socialist stings so much is BECAUSE our politicians have cringed and ran away whenever someone mentioned the word. Admitting it and not shrinking from it is a way to stop it being seen as a poisoned word. We saw the same thing with ”Liberal” in the wake of 9/11 where people practically spat the word, it…

The right has beaten the socialist trope to death with every democrat in the last decade or more. It is silly to think it will somehow become this awesome weapon it never was before in this election.

Try going to Nina Turner’s twitter or Briahna Joy Gray’s. They get attacked constantly and not just by Trump supporters. There are plenty of toxic former Hillary supporters and Warren supporters attacking them and Bernie non-stop. Look at Neera Tanden attacking progressive Bernie supporters all day every day on…

Obama didn’t try very hard at all. As soon as he bested Hillary in the 2008 Democratic primary he immediately started running away from his earlier progressive incarnation. He never stopped running. It’s almost as if he was a sleazy opportunist who never really meant any of that progressive shtick he peddled on his…

Well, I mean, he’s going to fucking try. That alone is more than I can assume of just about any of the other candidates and stands as one of Sanders’ most compelling virtues.  He’s going to try.  

While that may be true, Sanders actually polls better against Trump when described as socialist who wants open borders and government healthcare than he does as just “Democrat Bernie Sanders.” He beats Trump in either case.

I’m not a big electoral politics type (I skew more towards mutual aid type actions over electoral work), but the description of the crowd and the types of folks he’s got showing up gives me some hope- because if you can get low wage workers to show up, that can be momentous - because often, for those folks (and I’m…

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as…

To apathy. To more attractive third party candidates that actually excite them. Who cares that you don’t see a viable electoral alternative for them? The Democratic Party should do that thing where they *put in the effort* to exciting passion in Democratic-leaning voters so Democratic-leaning voters not only vote for…

I’m not sure they GO anywhere. They simply disengage. And I totally get it. 

“Electing Bernie, for so many of his supporters, is shorthand for the future that millions of us, myself included, are desperately wishing for. Perhaps I’ve been too scarred by the false hope of the Obama years, when so much optimism and excitement and energy quickly curdled and went sour after candidate Obama became…

It feels wild to have some hope but here I am, tearing up and having hope. The idea of everyone in my family being insured, the disability rights plan...fuck I did not want to be this invested because the disappointment is so soul crushing.

I feel like this is part of the thing that Democrats don’t understand. They think ‘we have to beat Bernie!’ And ‘Bernie can not be allowed to win’ but the people on the ground doing work, making calls, sending the texts? They are fucking passionate and they are young. They are not going anywhere so the democratic…

Calling Barbara Smith a fake progressive hero becuase she disagrees with you.. That is just hubris and derangement of the highest order... careful you don’t fashion a world where only those who a agree with your exact definitions and world view are permitted to be a “real progressive hero” *cough* facism *cough*

“I just wish Bernie’s coalition would encourage him to rein in the bros a little more.”

No denial that there are ‘berniebros’ but the vast vast majority of Sanders supporters are not the ones that are responsible for that. Remember that there are trolls, paid and otherwise, who live to try to divide and incite hate between us just like there were in 2016.