2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If the Democratic Party continues to go [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)and they accept the RW lie that the Democratic party establishment is just Third-way corporate "Republican-lite", and that dogma is more important than organization, and that one Presidential candidate can really change the way everything is done in every branch of govt.
Sorry to tell you, but the world doesn't work that way.
Do you want a progressive candidate for President and progressive legislation passed today? You should have started getting like-minded people together 20-30 yrs ago. WHAT YOU NEED IS A POLITICAL PARTY!
Don't evaporate away when your candidate loses. And certainly don't sit things out - or worse, vote for a 3rd party candidate. If you work to build a new Progressive Party, accept that the issues you care about will be ignored for several election cycles at least, or more likely ignored altogether forever (which is why third parties are destructive & generally suck).
Or you can get involved with the progressive party we already have - the Democrats.
But then, you don't like political parties, do you? Even though political parties are required to get policies you want passed into law. The Republicans know this, and are perfectly happy allowing progressives to think we can get away with not dealing with the organizational bullshit and doing everything they can to destroy it, shooting ourselves in the foot & setting Democrats and progressives up to lose. Again.
I don't want to lose again. America can't afford to.