I've said it before about the Democratic Party, I'll say it again...

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19. It's clear what we've been doing isn't working, whatever that is.....

....And people seem content to look only at the fact that Clinton got 3 million more votes in the GE rather than at the fact that we've been losing offices left and right at every level of government. I'm seeing far too much of people touting those 3 million votes in what seems like an excuse that we've done nothing wrong and don't need to change.

Shit, even people throwing around stuff like Comey and voter suppression and gerrymandering and all sorts of other excuses are correct that those things played a factor, but are missing the point: Anyone with a head, two eyes, and 2 ears (and even some people without all of those things) know that this is what the Republicans do and that they pull out every trick in the book, and we saw almost all those things coming a mile away and had every opportunity in the world to get out in front of and challenge and do everything else we needed. But we didn't. And that sucks, and we need to make sure that doesn't happen again.

I'm not saying I have the solution, but it seems to me making excuses for the status quo and the way we've been doing things is the last thing we need right now yet for some reason as we get further away from the election I see more people digging in their heels that nothing our side did was wrong and that we did everything right and nothing needs to change. And that scares me.