My head is spinning

[Ken Burch]

60. That's not the question.

We can't assume that we will alienate those voters simply by choosing somebody supported by Bernie(and supported by most of the progressive wing of the party-Perez may be personally progressive, but almost all his support comes from the right wing of the party).

Alan Dershowitz is simply one guy expressing an opinion. What are we supposed to do, say "The Dersh says no-that means we can't go with Keith"?

None of us want anyone alienated from the party. But we can't just take the word of one man, a man whose main agenda towards this party for decades has been to prevent us from deviating from the Likud line on the Israel/Palestine issue, that such alienation will happen.

Keith is NOT Bernie. Keith will not be running for president. He'll simply be working to get us elected again.

We get it that you despise Bernie. Fine. You didn't want Bernie nominated and he wasn't. It's extremely unlikely that Bernie will ever even run again. It's no longer about Bernie as a person(it never really was).

The point is, the party can only gain ground(and we need to gain votes by the millions if we're to have any chance of survival in the next few years) if it makes Bernie's agenda welcome and supporters welcome. If Perez wins, they won't be. It will just be the status quo, corporate funding and bland centrist campaigns "until the twelfth of Never(and that's a long time)" Grassroots politics will be kept on the back burner, funds for voter registration and re-registration drives will still be held back, and the Sanders agenda(which is supported by MOST Democrats, according to the polls) and we'll stay exactly where we are in electoral terms forever.

Why put ourselves through that when nothing in our current way of doing things WORKS?