We're about to transition into General Election mode soon, or as I like to call it:

[dreamnightwind]

5. I strongly disagree with this OP

"The ultimate goal for any Democratic voter should be to beat the living shit out of GOPer candidates in elections."

Really? That's why you're a Democrat?

Those RW people you dismiss as just assholes are a far more diverse group than you assume. Assholes, plenty of those in both parties, as well as people who vote against their best interests, either because of wedge issues they buy into or because they are misinformed.

We need to reach for the common humanity of people and work on policies that support that humanity, that's the work Democrats, or anyone, should be involved in.

The electorate is upside-down, over 40% refuse to join either party. Why? You think they're just stupid or assholes for not being Democrats? I think they're on to something, and the party is at a crossroads, recognize this and respond, or be just another illegitimate force inflicting the goals of the wealthy, which are terminal to our long-time survival as a species, on the rest of us.

Knock yourself out supporting the presumptive nominee, whose policies and donors put her solidly in the neoliberal/neocon camp.

I will work to find a better path, whether in or out of the party. There's a lot of great discussion and thinking going on right now, a ton of energy reorganizing in new ways.