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[Ken Burch]

7. I focus on issues in the real world. I'm in the real world as much as you do.

I've done as much bread-and-butter politics as you have.

Being in the real world doesn't have to mean accepting your hopeless, defeatist version of politics.

You live in Texas.

In Texas, the state party basically gave up when Dubya won the governor's race. Since then, the state leadership there hasn't even tried to win.

In Alaska, with Sanders people, the kind you say don't live in the real world, now in charge of the state party, Democrats just managed to form a coalition to take control of the state House for the first time since 1994. I was part of that before I moved.

I spent thirty-three years up there...sometimes going door-to-door in zero degree weather in early November.

Don't ever lecture me on living in the real world.

I live in it just as much as you do.

And it's possible to work on real day-to-day issues WITHOUT giving up on transformation. People do that all over the country and all over the world.

Indivisible isn't the only valid group to be involved in. I'm going to go door-to-door as part of the Knock On Every Door Group. I'm also involved in antiracist activism on a continual basis.