WE Are NOT the Problem

[Warren DeMontague]

120. Well I fall somewhere in between those two extremes, I guess.

Like I said- I have concrete suggestions for how we can broaden our appeal, given that we're going to have an AG sessions and no doubt a renewed push from the moral majority types to wage war on media, ungodliness, nekkid bodies on cable, and our so-called "culture in crisis".

Recommit to a personal freedom agenda, for starts. You want smaller government? Fine, keep it out of the bodies, bloodstreams and bedrooms of consenting adults.

As for criticism, I don't see much point in criticizing Hillary Clinton personally. We as a party made the decision to run her, and my own take is that from the convention onward, she was an exemplary candidate. What I perceived as many of her weaknesses prior to that, she addressed, and then some. In retrospect, however, if reports from Democratic field officies are to be taken at face value, strategy-wise there may have been some serious lapses from her team.

Either way, though, what's done is done.

Are there people here who never have anything good to say about the Democratic Party in general? Sure.

(It's worth noting that there are people here who do nothing but criticize Bernie Sanders, too, or spend all day trying to come up with cute ways to insult his supporters or appellate "bro" onto words. There are also people here who do nothing but complain about DU and the other people on DU, which begs the question as to what it is they get out of this place)

Although I've gotten accused of that- "bashing the Democratic Party" - just for specifically calling DWS out on working with Sheldon Adelson, for fuck's sake, in her quest to ensure that cancer-ridden grannies in Florida would keep getting sent to prison for eating pot brownies.

She (and Adelson) lost that battle, and to my mind it's also maybe worth asking whether her misguided crusade against all things weed hurt our chances in a state where measure 2 ended up passing with over 70% of the vote. Since this forum is the post-mortem, and all.

But Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Hillary Clinton for that matter, are only part of the Democratic Party. They are not synonymous with it. Now is the time for us to decide who we are and what we stand for. Personally, I'm looking to leaders like Gavin Newsom, who represent a new generation, a different geographic focus, and who haven't been afraid to lead on issues like cannabis or marriage equality.