2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am not bothering with the story we just ran [View all]LisaM
(27,762 posts)I have seen a lot of advances - albeit more slowly than I'd have liked - and thanks to the party I won't abandon, I've seen legal gay marriage become a reality and now have a real possibility of belonging to a party that ran a POC and a woman as two viable presidential candidates in the last 8 years.
In all the time I've been a Democrat (my whole life) I don't recall anyone worrying - or having to worry - that I'd jump ship. It was just never going to happen. I have more faith in young progressives than a lot of people here, I guess (that they will understand that being a Democrat is the best choice moving forward) but I don't appreciate others using that as a cudgel, so that I have to not only worry about myself but also be scared of offending millennials if my candidate gets nominated.