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In reply to the discussion: Democrats have nothing to gain be telling Bernie and his supporters to go to hell [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)We do need a clean break with the kind of choices we made in the fall campaign, where we repeated the tactics that we used in the losing campaigns in 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2004-keep our policy offer vague, focus on attacking the other ticket, make no effort to inspire passion and enthusiasm.
We easily could have elected HRC if she had run a partnership campaign...a campaign that emphasized both her personal qualifications and the issues she prioritized AND also pointed out on a frequent basis that the Sanders movement had had a major, positive impact on the platform.
We had nothing to lose by running that kind of campaign...yet our "pros" wouldn't even consider it.
For the future, we need to build that partnership-whatever anybody thinks of any particular individuals.