2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A few observations on "progressives" I've noticed from this election [View all]Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)after I SWORE I would never vote for her due to what I still view as her corporate coziness and her personal enrichment from public office.
But in the end, as flawed as she was as a candidate, she was still imminently preferable to Trump, so I swallowed my pride and voted for her. I live in a swing state that voted narrowly for Trump, and I was not going to play any role in his election.
I would hope the HRC supporters would have done the same had Senator Sanders won the nomination. I have no way of knowing, but posts like the OP don't lend themselves to supporting that assertion.
Bottom line for me is that our party is evolving from centrist to center-Left, and many of the old DLC/3rd Way types are not happy about losing their control over the party. We have to decide if we can patch things up or if we need to go out back and put the boxing gloves on and settle this the old fashioned way. If there's going to be a fight, so be it, as long as it's a fair fight.
That's why having Keith Ellison in charge of the DNC matters. We spent this cycle living with a Clinton operative dirty-dogging Democrats not named "Clinton". And now we are told that us progressives are the problem... I don't think I can really respond with how I truly feel about that notion without violating the TOS in a manner which might end my DU affiliation. Let's just say I disagree very strongly and leave it at that...