African American

Sanders has been put in a leadership position of the Dem party so with every bomb he throws into the party when the feeling hits him, the more ground we have to cover and pieces we have to pick up and defending we have to do - perpetual re-litigation of the primaries. Even after Perez was demonized and elected to be DNC chair and invited Ellison to lead along with him.

All over Social Media , in my feed, I'm seeing people resharing his criticisms as further evidence to abandon the democratic party completely but some black millennials my age ( and by no means is this statistically significant I admit) are watching it all alarmed: which causes further fractures.

Today, Charles Pierce wrote this off as a "wankfest" , and described the reaction to Sanders latest diatribe against the Democratic party, while acknowledging he didn't agree with Sanders...

"This [Sanders' comments] touched off a wild ovation in the hall, although several of the minority guests behind Sanders on stage looked at him very much as though he'd grown a second head. It also touched off the 34,998th relitigation of the 2016 Democratic primaries and, frankly, I am sick of all these people. I am sick of the useless posturing, the vain heckling, the shined-up counter-narratives that have nothing to do with the damage that is being done now, at this moment, all over the government, to every progressive accomplishment back to the turn of the last century." - http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54271/trump-self-destruct/

Where he's wrong is that this is not a "wankfest", it's just the latest manifestation of myopia about the dynamics at play last year, from liberals of all people.

So here we are in a situation that black people ( and PoC) are all too familiar with- holding our noses, joining the cause, and mentally editing out the bullshit to work on a larger goal while so called progressive heroes cynically pander to roughly 25% (thereabouts) of the electorate who enthusiastically threw their support behind Trump's divisiveness. Ain't life grand.