If we elect Bernie, our work will just have begun.

[Ken Burch]

The last six-plus years have reminded all of us that the progressive crusade isn't over the day someone we elect is sworn in. After 2008, a lot of us let ourselves be persuaded(and in some cases, coerced) into getting out of the game and, in so doing, let the other side (sometimes abetted by a large chunk of leading figures on our side) keep control of the narrative and the terms of debate.

Whoever we elect this time, even if it is Bernie(but this applies whoever it is) we will need, once that person is sworn in, to organize and mobilize continually, fighting perpetually from the ground up to keep the dream of positive, llife-affirming democratic social transformation going and growing, ignoring all who would tell us to "leave it to the insiders".

It will be on all of us.

[think]

1. Agree. And we need solid progressives getting elected for office on all levels.

Without a team the victory will be bitter sweet at best.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. This time - I'm the one slowing down and getting out of the game

I won't be getting activist oriented until 2020 which is when I *think* the numbers are on our side for a Democratic House. So Sanders , Clinton, O'Malley, Webb - whoever you guys pick (I'm in NJ - primary decided and over by the time it comes to us) is going to have to win a second term.

I'm not spitting in the wind anymore.

And if I think I have even the slightest chance in hell of getting rid of Lance (NJ 7th) I'm putting all my money, time, door knocking, canvassing, voter registration into getting him out of his cushy little house seat in 2016 and 2018.

After Grimes in Kentucky - I'm done.

She didn't share the same values as me - and if I don't have access to you and can't call you or write you once you are in office - I'm not wasting my time or money helping you. In some ways - my Republican Congressman in NJ was far more representative of my values than the failed Democratic Senator in Kentucky. But still not good enough.

So I'm handing off 2016 to all of you and I'll just show up as an after thought and vote for whomever you pick in 2016!

[Dawgs]

3. True, but I guarantee Bernie wouldn't put Summers and Geitner on his team. n/t

[dreamnightwind]

4. Yes, our work begins by changing the national narrative

from goverment is the problem, to the corrupting influence of money in government is the problem. Simple enough to understand for most everyone.

Bernie's campaign will go a long way toward doing that, whether he wins or not, since anyone who beats him will be an excellent (negative) example of what Bernie is saying.

Right now, people aren't being told that story enough to make it their filter for processing everything that is going wrong. We change that, in part, by running candidates who will preach it.

[kentuck]

5. And if we elect Hillary...

The work will not even start to begin...

[MineralMan]

6. If we NOMINATE Bernie, our work will just have begun.

First things first. It's a long way until the Democratic National Convention, with many obstacles in his way. Right now, a focus on that seems appropriate.