2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Please DON'T CALL Hillary A Progressive [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... when it currently has its leadership owned by the remnants of the DLC that was funded by the Koch brothers, then no thanks!! Especially if the party works against REAL progressives on what matters to most people... ISSUES DAMMIT!!!! And you had the last president start by appointing someone that built his cabinet (Rahmbo) that was dismissing progressive Democrats as "f'ing retarded"! That was a middle finger given to us, and I think it's time that we expect better from officials with moves like that and the former president pushing ANTI-PROGRESSIVE legislation like TPP harder than anything else!
I predict that if Bernie were to win the presidency, and lead a big progressive voter turnout to help PROGRESSIVE legislators take back congress and start doing more progressive changes on things that count like climate change, prosecution of banksters and other corporate criminals, bringing back a decent tax structure, campaign finance reform, and bringing down corporate personhood through court appointments or a constitutional amendment, I wouldn't be surprised later if he were to become a Democrat, when the party returns to its roots and stands again for what it stood for when FDR was president, when presidents spoke out publicly against "economic royalists" instead of getting in bed with them.