Bernie speaking on 1st day at Women's conference is a horrible idea & it's easy to show why...

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181. So you are going to miss the conference...

... and all it has to offer because 1 of something like 50 speakers/programs is a politician with whom you have some disagreements? And it's not even actuall policy disagreements so much as the prioritization of his policy hierarchy?

I don't always like the blunt criticism Sanders sometimes hurls at the democratic leadership (not democratic people, liberals, progressives or even democratic planks - just the leadership as far as I can tell), and sometimes I think his mouth outruns his brain. But some of it's not wrong. And we - Democrats - use to benefit from criticism before Boris and Natasha started fanning the flames of vitriolic division. It's not always bad to remind progressive leaders to lead progressively.

But I wish you would reconsider not attending the conference. What's the downside? You might enjoy 95% of it (a pretty good ROI), you might hear Sanders speak and find a way to reconcile some of your differences with him - or at least mitigate them. Or you can skip his program and hang out at the pool.

I am genuinely starting to be concerned that 2018 and especially 2020 are going to be republican landslides unless we figure out a way to get down to issues and not this overhyped division. It's 3 years until 2020. We're either going to get our shit together, or get flushed. It's up to us.