General Discussion

When I have had posts hidden, it's generally been because I was falsely accused of refighting the primaries.

I said a tiny handful of things about Kamala ages ago, for which I've apologized. I had nothing to do with the claques that attacked her. I said they were wrong to do that. And I've praised her for backing single-payer. I've done all I could to put that one to rest.

I've never claimed that nothing I said in the dead past was wrong. People often say heated things in a heated campaign. But that was the past and I more than atoned by working hard for the ticket in the fall.

I've long since stopped saying anything you have any reason to still be angry about or to have spent this much time targeting me for abuse about.

I'm glad we have new blood, but new faces by themselves aren't the answer.

If our party was strong, Trump wouldn't be president and we wouldn't be in the minority in Congress. We wouldn't have been in long-term decline on the state level in most states since at least 2009. That situation can't be put down solely to gerrymandering, voter suppression, Comey and the Russians, and we can't make a comeback simply by speaking about those issues-though speak to them we must.

And I don't want us to be The Party of Bernie-I want us to be the party of Barbara Lee, Kamala Harris, Dolores Huerta, John Lewis,
Occupy, Black Lives Matter, working-class people of all races, genders, orientations, identities and immigration statuses and the peace movement. I want to remake the Democratic Party in the image of the human race.

The message of the primaries is not that no ideas to the left of HRC can be tolerated in this party, and most Clinton supporters don't oppose every single idea associated with the Sanders campaign. If you don't support those things that's your right but it does no harm simply to advocate for them and it's not you place to try to badger me into not advocating for them. Most Democrats and most voters support the economic justice agenda. We don't ever need to be on the side of the rich against the many.