2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm beginning to see the gap as unbridgeable. [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Or a Trump plutocracy,
Or a Rubio idiocracy.
And then report back to us, if any of is survive, that is.
I whole-heartedly support Bernie, but the Hell if I am going to throw my vote away and let one of the GOP clowns gain the Oval Office. I am voting Democratic Party in November no matter who gains the nomination.
Any other strategy is one that loses in the long run.
Get this straight. If one wants to change the Democratic Party, one does not start at the White House and work down. That would be a fool's errand. One has to do it like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson did for the GOP in the 70's and 80's, from the bottom-up.
Once one runs like minded people for precinct delegates, one can control the county party. Then, one can take over the district delegations. Then, the state delegations, resulting in -- Ta-Daaaa! -- an entire national party. Many of us here watched it happen before our very eyes. It was slickly done, with the help of fundementalist pastors who ignored IRS guidelines, almost universally ignored.
If one wants to take over a party, that is the way it can happen, not with just an Oval Office. That the Oval Office is necessary but insufficient is something too damned many people here do not recognize.
Help organize at the local level. Run for precinct delegate and get like-minded people to do the same. Once one has the precincts in a district, one has the district, etc. Repeat as necessary and replicate everywhere.
In the meantime, do nothing to allow the crazies in the GOP gain total power.
It is simple; it just takes some coordination and effort beyond screaming at a DU post.