2016 Postmortem

a party that has had no leader the past 8 years. Traditionally the POTUS is the head f the party. But Obama never took any action to play that role. He seemed continuously paralyzed by the fear of being called "angry black man" and consequently only came out of his cave from time to time -- after mass shootings, when facing a government shutdown, etc. And half the time, the things he seemed to be for weren't really in our interests anyway, most notably Obamacare (that was all about rewarding the insurance vultures and giving Big Pharma a totally free pass) and TPP ( which was about -- well it couldn't be more opposite Democratic principles if that what they tried to engineer.)

Harry Reid gave it a try, but there are only a dozen or so Dem Senators with any scruples and backbone. And now we are left with the likes of Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi as the apparent head of the Party. God help us. Maybe they have some good qualities, but they have been around too long. Time to replace them with people who have some fight left.

As I said before, we must adopt revolutionary thinking. We tried it the DLC way the last 7 election cycles and have lost ground each time. No, thank you. I'm not interested in any more of this centerist thinking. DU needs to do some soul searching to decide what you all really believe. You can certainly keep tossing overboard those that don't "think right". That is just going to leave you in a very lonely, desolate place. MY suggestion is that DU should adopt revolutionary thinking, and give no quarter to the "junior Republicans" that are taking up so much space in the party. The argument heretofore was that we couldn't risk angering Lieberman types because we needed their numbers. Well wake up folks. It was the Liebermans types that have caused us to lose so badly. And now we really have nothing left to protect with the timid, single issue type of attitude we have seen here for years.