Ken the insistence that the platform was the key to winning is simply wrong. The real world is very different from an internet board. You can post all you want but do not expect anyone to take your posts seriously unless you show some understanding of the real world. I have been volunteering for a long time and the running joke that it only took my 15 or so years of hard work to be elected as a delegate to the National Convention. There is a lady from another district who was complaining that it took her 25 years to make it.
A week from tonight we will have a meeting of the governing group of my county's Indivisible group. There was an initial meeting last week that had over 100 people at it. Have you been to a meeting on an Indivisible group yet??? It is not hard to find a group near you. https://www.indivisibleguide.com/groups-nav Why don't you attend one and ask if the platform mattered? At the last meeting that I attended, a dozen or more people were very worried about losing their health care if the ACA is gutted by trump but not one person talked about single payer.
There is a great deal of energy on the ground in the real world. This energy is directed at Trump and not on platform proposals that were not popular enough to bring any new voters to the Democratic Party. I will attend these meetings and help get the Indivisible and the Pants Suit Nation groups organized and qualified as PACs under applicable law. I will not waste my time talking about single payer health care or free college. The people attending these groups are afraid of what is happening to our country and do not care about platform planks.
I find it is more productive to focus on issues that are important in the real world to people on the ground. Again, in the real world you need to focus on issues that people on the ground care about.
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