2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Will Bernie be as hated by progressives as Nader [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)You do realize that the bottom line here is that many are saying and i would imagine are going to say, you guys can sell your supposedly Liberal souls to the corporatists, the triangulators, the schemers, the "can't do that" bunch, the smearers, the ones who don't want to listen to inconvenient messages, the ones who don't want a free and fair primary beyond all doubt, the ones that stack the convention in a non representative way, the ones that want to schedule debates at odd times and late in the season so that we get less media coverage and favor the name candidate/not necessarily the best candidate, the people who take the big corporate money, those who are still dreaming of a return to the 90's which won't and can't return and weren't really all that great for us in retrospect, the Ronald Reagan admirers, I guess I could go on an on.
You can sell your allegedly Liberal or Progressive souls to them, or maybe you just like that kind of stuff. But if you do, just realize you are no longer really Progressive. And if they don't change, just realize, we think they will lose in November and deservedly so. And just also realize that we do not intend to continue to sell our souls.
It doesn't feel good or right to do so.
Something, sometime, somewhere has to wake up the Democratic Party to the fact that it did so, so, so much better when it was the party of FDR than it has ever done under this Republican-lite kind of murky, funky haze.
If Hillary and the Party run progressively, I'm for them. If they do not, the jury is way, way, way out.