People want us to be angry! Want to stoke the embers of anger, because then angry people get into action without stopping to think and take measure! NO THANK YOU!!

I choose level heads and working within our Party and as PER CONSTITUTION!!! which entails working with congress, which entails communication ~ not bullying and harassment. AGAIN, NO THANK YOU!!

He doesn't like our rules, but wants us to change them only so he can win. You are also correct in pointing out all of those issues that these so-called progressive have jumped onto are issues that Democrats have been fighting for for years.

I keep asking the question of "what exactly is a progressive". I usually get no answers, but when I do, it is a repeat of issues that Democrats have been fighting for. of course, Bernie would not know that because he has never been a Democrat, but it seems if he had been paying any attention he would have noticed that. I guess that happens when a person thinks that only they know what is best.

Thank you for this post.

Imagine what we could accomplish if everyone on the left joined us Dems to defeat the Father Knows Best/ Donna Reed In An Apron & Pearls party. I guess most Sanders supporters don't know about Hillarycare or the simple fact that she dared to use her maiden name as her middle name and be the first first lady to have a law degree and a law practice partnership.

Yesterday Trump talked to voters in swing states. He went to the left of H C. Trade jobs infrastructure schools ext. He is lying he and the Republican have no interest in our people. He sees Bernies issues are winning issues. If the Dems want to ignore Bernie and his message and refuse to speak to working class people with a full throated progressive agenda you will lose.

It's the Democratic Party, NOT the Progressive Party.

Democrats have a diversified constituency. It isn't all progressives, let alone the most left-leaning members of the progressives.

The Ds will NEVER embrace a "full-throated progressive agenda" because that is not who we are.

And I'm sorry, but you don't get to take all of the good things that are being done for people, label them all as being "progressive" and then aver that the full-throated progressive agenda and ONLY the full-throated progressive agenda embodies philosophies that really help people.

Again you will lose. If you keep mumbling and don't get on board.

Judging from your response, you clearly didn't read the post or completely disagree. If you disagree, that's fine. I for one don't see any room for ideologues in politics. If you don't believe me, just take a look at what the republicans are doing and where it's getting them.

This is the second threat I've seen posted on DU today. Must be some left over post-loss feistiness.

Trump doesn't go left. He takes multiple positions on every issue, depending on what day of the week it is.

He's also a pathological liar. Believing anything he said was your first mistake.

Guess what? Trump can promise that we'll only do "good" trade deals but the reality is, you have to work with what you're given. During the first Clinton Presidency, we had historic job rates. HRC has been talking about infrastructure since the beginning of her campaign and she's been fighting for better education all her life--actually in the trenches, fighting for it.

Also, do you really believe that Clinton has no "working class" supporters? I'd daresay the majority of her supporters are indeed working class and she has garnered the most support from the primaries so there goes that theory.

I would have joined another party. I like the idea of having the super delegates to prevent hostile takeovers. If I wanted Sanders agenda I would have voted for him, I don't agree with his agenda.

I agree about the supers. I would have wanted them to step in had Sanders been able to hijack the party.

Like most zealots, he can't understand why the world doesn't bow to his feet and accept his "pure" agenda. And like most zealots, he projects his own faults on others to insulate himself from criticism.

Like all megalomaniacs, the world revolves around him.

there are more moderate people within the Democratic Party than progressives. If the majority of Democratic members wanted Bernie's agenda, Bernie would have won but most people are pragmatic and want their politicians to be pragmatic too.

I've got plenty of Democratic relatives in the mid-west that would never, ever support Bernie Sanders but happily will support Clinton. The nation isn't as progressive as Sanders would like to believe it is.

Breitbart, Drudge, Rush and Hannity. Sure it's on the other political side so it's "better", but it's still about as detached from reality and sensationalistic. That's why a lot of voters on both sides end up hating "the establishment", without an actual understanding of how to change it in a peaceful, consensus-building manner, and also without an actual understanding of why the "establishment" acts in the way it does (hint: white racism leading to the rejection of progressive policymakers created an opening to move the Overton Window far right which has forced Democratic lawmakers to adopt a lot of economic/fiscal positions that would be fairly conservative before this shift but moderate now to keep Republicans from winning).

But the professional "Left" doesn't talk about this, or alludes to it in a dismissive anger because it would alleviate the anger at Dems and focus it on Repubs, and a narrative of betrayal and selling out drives way more clicks than actual policy analysis. I know this because I was one of them, who read all those sites for my daily dose of outrage and screeds about how the Democratic Party was selling out everyone but Wall Street. So you create a lot of angry, frustrated, upset people who feel less and less economically secure and suddenly they believe the Democratic Party is hopelessly corrupt and doesn't care about them because that's what they got told.

Sanders is wrong about the Democratic party

I have to agree with most of the comments. Thanks.