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In reply to the discussion: This Donald thing is starting to blow up. [View all]40degreesflaps
(88 posts)...one would think you have an interest in the overall health of the party. Great - so my advice to you is to dump the identity politics because if you don't, you're going to remain in the wilderness for one hell of a long time to come.
I've been around politics for awhile. The last time we saw a realignment like this was 1980 and the Dems spent twelve years out of power only returning with the DLCers (the Clintons, Mark Warner, Jim Webb, etc) who are damn near Republicans anyway. I don't see that happening again because it's become all about money and those precious dollars are always raised at the extremes.
When someone calls me a racist or sexist or xenophobe or homophobe, what they're really saying is that my opinion doesn't matter. Looking at the results from 2016, I would tell you that it damn well does matter and it's gonna matter for a number of years to come. Before you respond, I want you to sleep on it. I want you to think about what I said here.