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by RCortex 3502 days ago
You just characterized this guy who hasn't said a single violent thing as some knife-stabber, you're part of the obstacle preventing us all from working together.
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Just keep at it. My bleeding centrist establishment abdomen will be here all week. Let me know when you're done.

(Edit just to clarify the sarcasm, as I feel you won't get it if I don't: if you check upthread, the metaphor I picked originally was "spitballs". I escalated for effect when it became clear that SwellJoe was more interested in yelling at the corrupt DNC establishment elites than in discussing what to do about a Trump presidency, which was the original topic.)

"SwellJoe was more interested in yelling at the corrupt DNC establishment elites"

What have I said that is in a "yelling" tone? Please point it out to me, so I can adjust my tone. I'm speaking the truth as I see it, as clearly as I understand it. The Democratic party lost big this year. It was not just the presidential race. Republicans swept the board, at the national, state, and local level, including in places they shouldn't have won.

If you believe staying the course is the right course of action for the DNC and the party in general, I believe the onus is on you to defend that position; there are people who have tried to bring the party back to being a grassroots party of the working class (among others, of course), and have been repeatedly shushed, shunned, dismissed as being "extremist", etc. So, the working classes have spoken and embraced a fascist who, at least, speaks to them where they are and acknowledges the pain they're feeling. That he can get away with giving scapegoats rather than solutions is predictable in the absence of consistent messaging and action from the Democrats on those same issues.

The argument can no longer be made that the center lane is the pragmatic approach; though one could certainly argue that there's room for center-left Democrats in red state elections, and I would even agree with that and support that. But, the party has no passion left in it; it's been shoved out by party functionaries who cling to power within the party, all the while it sinks further below water.

Losing (big and wide) is not pragmatic.