2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Words matter [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)this election will be to make the D party even smaller that it already is. There was a time that we had a huge majority over both Independents and Rs. But the Independents are now bigger than we are.
In the next election this is going to make a big difference. Closed primaries will tell us absolutely nothing because the real power will be the Independents - especially if all of us leave the Democratic Party like we are saying we will.
Also there will likely be a third party candidate that will challenge the Democratic candidate outside the party unless they learn the less of this election. We do not want to be corporatists anymore.
The little Democratic Party is going to have to make some real changes if it want to keep its influence. But I don't think either Hillary, Bill or their supporters care about the party of the future. They are in it for themselves and they do not care how much harm they are doing to the party.
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