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In reply to the discussion: I've noticed some "progressives" seem to think Hillary owes them something [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)The base of the Democratic Party is comprised of people of color and single women. That is the fact. People who refuse to vote for Democrats are not only not the base, they aren't even Democrats. If you did vote for Hillary, then it isn't addressed to you and there is no reason to be defensive. If you didn't vote for her, that makes you a collaborator with the fascist regime and my enemy. That means I will never, ever forgive you for sacrificing human lives for your own colossal sense of entitlement.
As for the DNC, read this article by Eichenwald. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044
If nothing else, you should at least learn what the organizing body of the party whose base you claim to represent actually does.
The DNC isn't responsible for the fact that Bernie lost by 3.75 million votes. That is his doing. That you assume someone who couldn't even win a majority of Democrats would win the general election is without any basis in evidence. Somehow he had to convince Democrats to vote for him, and he couldn't. Now he obviously had great success instilling certain buzz words in the lexicon, which you use with ahistorical zeal.
Ensuring a former first lady doesn't become president isn't a stand against "dynasty." The same people who claim to resent the Clinton "dynasty" idolize the Roosevelts and Kennedys. Instead, it is ensuring that women remain in their place, that the power be kept for men only. That is the same impulse as the use of the term corporatist against Clinton (and Obama) while ignoring the fact that the Democratic party has since its inception been allied with moneyed interests, whether slaveholders, industrialists, or financial capital. Yet only when a black man is president and a woman poised to succeed him does it become a problem. Enter Donald Trump. Problem solved. America is great again. And the "progressives" --actually racist, misogynist shit stains--who voted for anyone but Clinton played a major role in making that happen. That isn't to say that Clinton and the Dem party don't have responsibility for their loss. Of course they do, but that responsibility doesn't include failing to compel the actual base of the party--women and people of color--to vote for Sanders as you insisted was their obligation.