2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: For those who don't yet get it, r.e. Bernie Supporters. [View all]He has been an effective and inspiring leader.
I'm beginning to feel some hope for our country.
Of course, The Party establishment will FIGHT us every step of the way, by hook, Swiftboat, or crook (as we have witnessed this year). If the Party Establishment (Clintons, DLC, 3rd Way, Republican Lite) continues down this shortsighted and self-destructive path, THEY will be responsible for the creation of an effective and popular 3rd Party that takes the place that the current democratic party has abandoned while chasing Republicans and BIG MONEY since 1992,
just like they created Nader in 2000.
Vacuums are filled, and the current Democratic Party has left a huge, sucking vacuum where the FDR/LBJ Democrats stand,
and will once again.
Thank You for the OP.
Thanks, Bernie,
and deep thanks to all the many thousands of supporters.
We will never stop.
We will never be quiet.
We will never go along quietly or gently with the Status Quo.
---bvar22
a mainstream-center FDR/LBJ activist Democrat for over 50 years,
now labeled a "Far Leftist" in what passed for today's Democratic Party.
I haven't changed.
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]