2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Leadership is completely out of touch with the base. They block progressives from local committees, and block progressives from appearing on ballots...even resorting to physical threats. They only promote their pet Third Way candidates, who increasingly are former republicans (see Charlie Crist and Patrick Murphy...just two well-known examples, there are more). A former chair of the Party is a GOP lobbyist, fer Christs sake. We've had to hold our nose in the voting booth for 20 years now. Done with that. If there's no Dem candidate I feel good about voting for, I'll look at third parties or write-in. If the Third Way continues losing elections, their corporate sponsors will stop funding them, and there's a chance of the base taking back our party.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.