What a divisive article! A life-long Democrat and fellow fighter in the trenches, it’s time to take stock of problems within the DNC that surfaced and have never been adequately addressed. Debbie Wasserman Shultz didn’t do our party any favors, and holier-than-thou articles like yours won’t win over any of us who support moving the dial further to the left — in order to avoid a continued drift of the center to the right. DWS NEEDS TO BE RENOUNCED FOR TIPPING THE SCALES IN THE PRIMARIES, regardless of who one supported. How are we to trust a party that lets this go on without any obvious change?
Sanders’ ideas are polemic, granted. We need to debate what our party stands for. Rather than alienating millions of exuberant voters who want to participate in the process, but feel more than a bit homeless after the DNC failed to play fair, we need to respect their idealism — not attack the messenger (Sanders.) That you can ignore DWS’s and the DNC’s role in unwittingly undermining Clinton’s campaign with their shenanigans, and suggest those who want a more progressive party start their own, is the height of arrogance and symptomatic of why our party finds itself out of control at almost every level of government.
Clinton lost due to a myriad off factors, some we can change if we join together to do so. Tearing apart Sanders at this point just seems like rubbing salt in the wound, and distracts from the real business of creating a Democratic Party we can all support. But if you can’t acknowledge the problem, chances are you won’t be a part of finding a solution. Perhaps you’re too intellectual to empathize with mere mortals who want to use their intellect to create real change rather than to defend a losing status quo.