2016 Postmortem

I don't support Rahm(he's a reactionary scumbag and I never liked him) and my comments have been about campaign strategy, not attacks on Hillary as a person.

I despise the right-wing attacks on her since the Nineties. Always have.

Why is it so important to you to try to prove that I'm working against the party and against you? And why does it sound like you are bound and determined to get me kicked off of this board?

I'm a Democrat. I'm an anti-oppression, pro-social AND economic justice progressive. I'm on YOUR side. And I campaigned for the ticket all fall.

All I'm trying to do is help us find a way to get the votes we need next time-and to do so without selling anyone out. There's no way to do that by moving further right on anything.

The reason I mentioned the DLC and the Third Way is that, unlike the Sanders campaign, those groups actually DID throw historically oppressed communities under the bus. It was THOSE groups that pushed a totally unnecessary "law and order" agenda that specifically targeted people of color as a group, that called on the party to accept the Republican myth that drug use, welfare fraud and out-of-wedlock childbirth were largely "black things&quot in reality, they were always mostly white things), and that sought the votes of working-class whites by pandering to the worst prejudices of that group, unlike the Sanders supporters who haven't called for the party to validate white male delusions at all. Yet, as far as I know, you always gave THOSE groups a total pass.

If you didn't give those groups a pass while at the same time demonizing Sanders supporters as closet white supremacists, I stand corrected.