If the Democrats stay mired in the 2016 election, Republicans will win in 2018. CHOOSE the future!

[kpete]

We must, as a Party, decide what is most important to us
Because you can live in the past or you can live for the future —
but you cannot do both at the same time.
Shall we sit mired in the past, bemoaning past losses and trying to affix blame for those past losses?

Or shall we let the past be the past, and marshal our forces for the coming battles of 2017 (there is a Alabama US Senate seat up for grabs on December 12th, 2017) and 2018?

Which path seems a more likely path to winning the future?

For me, it is a clear choice.

I choose the future.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/12/1698019/-If-the-Democrats-stay-mired-in-the-2016-election-Republicans-will-win-in-2018-CHOOSE-the-future

[comradebillyboy]

1. So long as the minority demands that the majority

submit to its will the division will continue. For example the losing candidate in the California party leadership elections continues to insist, without any evidence, that she was cheated. How do we as Democrats respond to people who have so little regard for the Democratic process.

[Hoyt]

2. Exactly! 2016 is over. The best we'll do is see a few Trump aides indicted, then

pardoned. If all the stars align perfectly, Trump might resign, but he'll be replaced by Pence or Ryan.

We need to concentrate on 2018 and 2020.

Nothing else really matters, except to avoid the mistakes of the past and doing a better job of responding to what will be thrown at us in the future.

[Freethinker65]

3. So stop writing incessantly about it? Stop giving ink to it.

Write about something more constructive than pleading to stop staying "mired in the 2016 election". I am done viewing posts like this as I am realizing that is part of the problem. The more views and comments these writings on DU, Dailykos, and others get, the more will be generated.

Honestly only Hillary, and a few others with personal professional knowledge of collusion and missteps, should be considering commenting on what occurred on her side of the presidential campaign. The rest are primarily out to make a name for themselves in the blogosphere, on social media, and as media pundits.

[delisen]

4. The Russians haven't quit, the vote suppressors are

still busy, and our voting machines still have problems.

Frankly if we had "mired" ourselves in the 2000 election, back then, I don't think would be where we are today.

Sometimes you have to build up the courage to kill vampire or it keeps opening the coffin every night (or every election cycle) and coming out to feed.

[Lee Adama]

5. The answer is simple, the extremist leftists need to STFU and get on board.

Anything else and the 2018 election will be owned by them every bit as much as the 2016 election is completely their fault.