2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How do you reshape the Democratic Party? Start with winning the nomination. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Through ongoing debate. No one has it all nailed down or all in the bag. We don't know, even among supporters of a given candidate, who was with them on what basis, although polling tells some of what people support and don't support.
None of that goes away at any point. Shall we sign on to the TPP? Is fracking okay sometimes, all the time, or never? How interventionist shall we be in our foreign policy? How shall we regulate the finance industry? What should we do about student debt or the costs of healthcare?
No one stops pushing. No one stops arguing. No one has a mandate for the minutiae of their individual personal policy, ever. It's why we have freedom of speech, of the press, of the right to assemble and petition the government.
We have picked a candidate. We have not decided everything that the party stands for or what everyone wants to do.
That never happens, and it never should.