Ok. The election was stolen. We know that now. Time to stop blaming Hillary or Bernie.

[Hekate]

19. I often use the syntax of the poster I am replying to; don't know if I did this time

In any case, when I do so it is to emphasize a point by mirroring them.

Be that as it may, I've been here long enough to be known as a legitimate and loyal self-identified Democrat. This is my party since 1968, Hillary was my candidate, and I'm Still With Her.

Not everyone here is a Democrat; that's pretty clear. And we have a flood of newbies (or at least low postcount under their current name) and we are still in the sorting out stage with a lot of them. I am getting very tired of the ones continually emphasizing how "historically unpopular" Hillary was and is. (For an unpopular candidate she sure as hell won a massive amount of the popular vote.) And telling us how the solution to winning the EC is to move further left so we can capture the votes of conservative rural whites clinging to their guns and Bibles. Something in that does not compute, but I keep reading it here.

The system is rigged against Democrats 6 ways from Sunday. Our tent needs to be bigger, and inclusive of Blue Dog Dems and others considered impure by many on the left. The more pure we get, the smaller our tent will be. If we want people in red states to elect Democrats, we will have to run candidates who can speak their language, and that means in those states they will be in the center, not the left.