If you don’t think there was a meaningful policy contrast on display in the 2016 presidential election, then I don’t know what to tell you. You’re living on another planet.

Policy is clearly and unambiguously not what gets people to show up to vote in this day and age.

This is the most correct post in the entire comments section. Arguments over the nuances of policy are going to lead us to even more losses.

Republicans didn’t win because of their policy positions. They won because of cultural nihilism. You’re talking about bringing a knife to a gunfight.

The idea that any policy-based approach is going to turn things around is laughably naive (if not dangerously inept).

Policy literally does not matter right now.

Where was this Hillary during the election?

RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR IDIOT FACES

Hamno in 2015: “Addressing economic inequality will alleviate racial issues”
Hamno in 2017: OOPS.

Because ideology and policy literally do not matter right now. 2016 proved it. Ideology lost to policy which lost to jingoism.

“Actually being a liberal” right now means sitting on the sideline. If you want to be put in the game to make a difference, you need to be ready to talk to people who know how the game is…

Unless we’re focused on winning elections, the only change we’re going to get is destructive change.

If you think policy has anything to do with it, in 2017, you’re so far out of touch you might as well be on the moon.

There’s also a case to be made that a Republican majority lasting more than 2 years will completely destroy every public institution and sane piece of policy that has come out of Washington in the last 50 years.

Get the fuck over your hangups. Winning elections is literally the only thing that matters right now.

You know what? Fuck off with your purity tests.

Emmanuel’s a dick, his 2006 Dems undermined Obama’s agenda and so on and so forth. Who gives a shit? We have to stop the bleeding.

You’re right, things are different now. So of course that means abandoning all proven methods and best practices and just winging it. A surefire plan for success.

“Bernie was CLEARLY the frontrunner”

hahahahaha 

Hey pal. You’ve had about 14 hours to mull over my dick and balls. Have you figured out that two different responses to two different questions are not equivalent comparisons?

Motherfucker you didn’t back up your claims AGAIN. You just repeated them without citation.

So again, I refer you to these nuts.

You’ve said it 5+ times in this thread already without backing it up. So how about you just back up on these nuts and stop posting?

The boulder already fucking dropped, my dude. People are picking at Mello’s stance not because it’s a bad stance (it is), but because unity and compromise in the name of preventing a Republican apocalypse were apparently not worthy enough goals for the Revolution six months ago.

Compromise to win is fine. After all, the party is a big tent with many perspectives.

The problem is that Sanders specifically wanted to throw everyone out of the tent who wasn’t 100% behind his brand of pure white liberalism. But now he’s deciding to pick and choose who to let back in, and the first through the door…

Hey You, Yes you. Clinton would not have been “less pro-choice than Sanders” no matter how many times you keep saying it. Shut the fuck up already.

Wow. What was dozens of options in my recollection was actually just 9 choices. Still a lot more than you’d see anywhere else, but it’s funny the way my memory of the game has exaggerated certain parts.

Edit: It also strikes me now just how powerful it was that each response was prefaced with “Truth:” - No matter what…