Time to make people mad: The modern left sucks and this primary proves it.

[baldguy]

32. You're right. There are no "movement progressives" to counter the RW.

Sanders and his supporters keep proclaiming that his campaign is the result of a revolution. If so, then where are the candidates supporting him? The Presidency isn't the only office that matters, or has influence over the direction the country takes. There are 100 Senate seats, 435 House seats, 50 Governorships, and 7383 State legislative seats where the officeholders make decisions every day that greatly effect Americans lives. If this is a revolution, these nascent revolutionaries (I can't say they're really any part of "the left&quot should be able to list hundreds of candidates for office supporting it.

Another tell-tale is what these nascent revolutionaries will do when they lose. And they will lose. Will they regroup, buckle down, and work twice as hard for the next round of campaigning & elections? Or will they evaporate?

History shows that they'll evaporate. Either they "compromise their principles" and vote for the winning Democratic candidate - meaning that they grow up & realize those lofty principles they fought so hard for (not really) are shit & actually don't get anything progressive accomplished. Or just sit at home to pout & whine on Election Day. Or, they'll latch onto a third party Don Quixote, who may be superficially "liberal", but often has some very problematic, not-very-liberal views on important issues - which they will of course sweep aside & ignore. Some will even cast a supposed "protest vote" for the Republican ("that'll show those nasty, nasty Demon-crats!&quot - with varying levels of enthusiasm.

OTOH, it seems that whenever anyone actually works to create a base of support to vote for real progressive candidates, and get progressive legislation passed, these nascent revolutionaries dismiss them out-of-hand as party hacks, or Third Way, or corporatists, or just simply corrupt & cowardly - precisely reflecting what the RW propaganda machine has been saying for decades. And then they dream up conspiracies to excuse their losses & justify their lack of support for Democrats.

They can't seem to grasp the fact that democracy is hard. IT'S MEANT TO BE! Creating a real movement is what the leaders in the Democratic Party - that they're so happy to demonize - have been doing for decades. Sure, there are problems with the system that we have - but to even begin to fix those problems we need to have people in office to do it! When these nascent revolutionaries take their ball and go home they create the environment which they're so dissatisfied with. I guess that's why they're such a useful tool for the RW to use against the Democratic Party.