@Mark from Queens
I keep reading that the DP hasn't learned their lesson from not only this election but from the 2010 midterms that saw them lose so many seats and states.
They haven't learned any lessons because they have no plans to change anything.

It's hard to believe these bastards are so fucking clueless. Devastated on all fronts, after losing 1000 seats nationally...and they're still holding onto the same old formula that Bubba Boy Clinton introduced, which is playing for the same Big Money donors as the Repugs. After losing to the worst candidate of all time, in such a bone-crushing defeat to such a hideous moron, they still don't get it.

As I have stated many times, if Obama was upset about losing so many seats and states he would have fired DWS and not letting her stay on to run the primaries.
And I think it was intentional to lose that many because it gives the republicans the power that they need to dismantle so many of our social programs and the democrats are helpless to stop them. I don't see any other way to look at it.
And wasn't it convenient for the democrats to change the voting rules just in time for them not to be able to block any of Trump's cabinet positions and the other legislation that they want to pass?
It seems that only the republicans can block legislation by placing holds or use the filibuster .
As you wrote, it's kabuki theater and if anyone doesn't get reelected there is always a lobbying job waiting for them.
George Carlinhos was f'cking right when he said it's a big club and we aren't in it.
We should have listened to him a long time ago and not have to wait for a Bernie candidate to wake us up.

Haven't most of the Bernie campaign staff abandoned Our Revolution? Wasn't there a mutiny over the mission statement, in which the fight against a mandate to not accept corporate donation money was overruled? Jesus Christ, that was the whole linchpin of the Bernie movement, the biggest takeaway. That a good, authentic, honest candidate could get enormous support, and a lot of it just be virtue of not taking Wall St and corporate money.

It's hard to believe these bastards are so fucking clueless. Devastated on all fronts, after losing 1000 seats nationally...and they're still holding onto the same old formula that Bubba Boy Clinton introduced, which is playing for the same Big Money donors as the Repugs. After losing to the worst candidate of all time, in such a bone-crushing defeat to such a hideous moron, they still don't get it.

But then again, like many have said here, it's all kabuki theater to them, a charade they play not so well. They live in hermetically-sealed worlds in which their schedule planner books are filled with either fundraising dates for their next campaigns, cocktail parties of the well-connected and meeting with their donors and their lobbyists. The game just goes on and on, like an interminable cricket match in which there is now winner. Which is the point. That's how they all stay elected, pump out fear of the other side to their loyal partisans, back by a non-stop onslaught of propaganda from the lapdog media, who also have big financial interest in keeping the game going. Don't do anything to upset your donors, and you'll have a long career, which includes the guaranteed lobbyist or consultant gig as you grease right through the revolving door back wearing the jersey of the other team.

From what I've seen locally of Our Revolution, it's a fraud. Sort of like when the most extremist elements of the RW were re-branded as the Tea Party, but were transparently just a Koch Bros-funded, astroturfed, racist front to both rail at the black president and used the lemmings to disrupt even the slightest proposed changes to the corporate status quo of healthcare through insurance companies. The Democrats are attempting to re-brand their simpleton, lesser of two evil brilliant strategy as The Resistance™, in the same way, a clumsy cover for their odious Neoliberal agenda.

I went to the first local Our Revolution meeting after the primary was over, and watched two former Bernie campaign guys just latch right onto to the $hills campaign in the general, while barely batting an eyelid. I was so astonished at the rapid transformation that I began wondering if their allegiance to Bernie was just a front. When I brought up the validity of a 3rd party run and my interest in Jill Stein, based on the political revolution Bernie had just conducted, I was met with disinterest and no support. I never went back to anything they did after that. A friend went to another of their meetings and said it was another corporate affair, saying the same thing. Our city council guy was there, a Neoliberal who takes lots of real estate money. They clearly want to co-opt all this new-found protest energy, and suck it right back into that graveyard of a party.

I'm more interested in seeing what develops of Justice Democrats. Their platform is more similar to Bernie's, and most prominently is based on the fundamental issues of Money In Politics. To me, that is the most winning of all ideas. If you can prove to people that good candidates don't have to take Big Money, taking off from the single most important thing Bernie's campaign had wild success on, you stand the best chance of getting elected - mostly on that premise alone (provided one is not a multi-millionaire). I mean, think about it: If Trump didn't have money he'd be nowhere in sight now. Goes for the entire makeup of government at all levels, from local to DC. But if you however can get people to canvass for you and contribute small donations, because they believe in what you're saying, you stand an excellent chance of using that leverage against your opponent, who in almost all cases will be someone who got elected to office solely on Big Money stuffing their coffers. When new progressive candidates can do what Bernie did, and point to the fact that they are not accepting any corporate money - well, that's the whole thing in a nutshell. No longer are these new politicians beholden to Wall St or Corporate America (see Kshama Sawant in Seattle).

I don't have much hope in the electoral political system at all. But I'm curious to see if some of these candidates, taking a page from Bernie and not accepting any big donor money and standing on a staunch Occupy-style reform platform like Bernie, can get some traction. I think they can.