2016 Postmortem

...(and I fixed it)...is that he's Bernie's preferred DNC chair. You know perfectly well he's not tied to the NoI. If he was Bernie wouldn't support him and neither would anyone else in the party.

I don't support Keith blindly. I simply regard him as the progressive, grassroots candidate for DNC chair, while Perez, at best, is a tamed "Hubert Humphrey after 1965" type who will never rock the boat or push for anything the big donors don't want. He's only supported by politicians from the corporate wing of the party...I can't imagine any anti-poverty activists or grassroots organizers for change supporting. He'd be blandly competent and "safe"...and "safe", based on this year, always means defeat.

And I actually don't obsess about Bernie...I simply don't understand why you are STILL reflexively treating him as the enemy and the problem, and because I think it would be a tragedy if he and his supporters were anathemized by this party and driven away(and I recognize that the . We can't win without them.

I want 2016 never to repeat itself. I want us to win for social justice AND economic justice...and I don't care who we nominate so long as the party is committed to both justice struggles. To do that, we need to mobilize everyone who will be dumped on by Drumpf.

A grassroots, activism-oriented DNC chair can do that. A guy who has spent his life solely as an insider can't. It's just not possible to muster the passion and intensity anymore once you're part of power.