Exactly!

Why doesn’t the rest of the party get up off their asses then? They still refuse to address the issues that many Democrats are demanding (and hence their wanting Bernie around) and are merely pitching a fit and getting mad because people they don’t deem to be Democratic enough are demanding something from them and…

John Lewis is a civil rights icon, there is no disputing that, however when he said “I never saw him their” with that condicending tone (when in the photograph they were maybe 15 ft apart), it was obvious what Lewis was trying to do and it was not appreciated.

Your entire comment is fucking maddening.

Thank you! At this point Democrats should be focused only on adjusting their Republican-lite ideology so that they can honestly win over the millions of voters (the new young ones in particular) who continue to back Bernie Sanders. Right now, the Democrats are spending more time attacking Sanders and the left-wing of…

You do have a point there. It does feel as though the Democratic party runs in order to play the role of savior but doesn’t actually do anything. When they’re in the majority they talk bullshit about being bi-partisan. They have members of their caucus sabotage progress. (Fuck you Joe LIEberman) they can’t be arsed to…

Maybe the Democratic party should spend less time bitching about Bernie Sanders and more time adopting some of his policies.

Then the seat will go to a Republican who opposes abortion along with every other principle the majority of liberal/progressive voters support.

And here’s the point: for you, it’s bodily autonomy.

It’s (not really) funny how Clintonistas insist on complaining about purity tests from the “Bernie Bros” yet have absolutely no interest in exploring their own purity tests.

I get that women’s health, in a general sense, shouldn’t be compromised. All I’m saying is that there are degrees of compromising, and the Mello shit is small potatoes, comparatively speaking.

This is why the left loses all the fucking time—we demand this kind of ridiculous ideological purity and 100% adherence to all possible issues that affect our broad coalition of leftist/progressive voters at all times. That’s an incredibly stupid, naive way to look at politics, frankly. Did Bernie Sanders fully…

Great. Let me know how it works out this time around. Doesn’t seem to have worked out so well in recent years.

So... what if it wasn’t abortion? What if Mello was a supporter of the Wall? Or the Muslim ban? Or stop and frisk?

Yeah, I’m not sure how this is going to play out. “Only support candidates who support every single thing you support. He doesn’t supports X? Well hell, just let the GOP control the whole thing then, because Democratic candidate Z hasn’t even mentioned “Save the Whales” once”. Look, no candidate is perfect, you are…

Can’t say I disagree with Sanders as it relates to Mello. If the left wants to win, then they actually have to turn an eye away from purity bullisht and toward...y’know...actually getting some points up on the fucking board.