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In reply to the discussion: Supporting the values of the Sanders movement is not "refighting the primaries". [View all]MineralMan
(146,281 posts)That is, if they have any sense. So, discussing either of them seems to me to be a waste of time. Bernie, by not bothering to join the Democratic Party and stick with it, is becoming irrelevant to future elections, I think. Hillary has pretty much gone silent, and appears to be bowing out of the political debate.
So, I'm in favor of working on the 2018 midterm elections and then seeing who pops up as potential candidates for 2020 after those elections happen. 2016 is over. We lost. We should figure out why and what we can do to prevent that, and the answer isn't going to come from those who lost. Its going to come from those to whom the future belongs.
Even now, there are special elections about to happen to fill seats of those who have opted to join Trump's lousy excuse for an administration. We could be focusing on those right now, but we're not. We could also be working in our own districts to identify and help candidates who have what it takes to win in 2018. But we're not.
It's time to drop the whole 2016 nonsense and move on. You shouldn't have to tell us you're not refighting the primaries. You should just be showing us that your interest has shifted to 2018 and beyond. Time to move on. Past time.