-IF- the number of those over at TOP are any indication, Third Way has successfully co-opted the Democratic Party. I've watched them appeal to "moderate" republicans for several election cycles, and raised the question several times regarding filling our party with repubs of any stripe. As you can guess, that was not well received. I got the "we're a big tent party" reasons among others I won't quote. You'd have to have blinders on not to see what was happening!

Now that we've got so much "power" money invested in the DNC, the DINO democrats in office, and greasing the way forward for more Dems the big money likes, I think the question changes from "How do we take back the party?" to "Is it worth the time and effort to throw them out and take the party back to the party of FDR?"

Lately, I've been leaning toward either finding another party and seeing if we liberals would be a good fit, or hoping a whole new "Progressive Party" would crop up to throw in with.

Bernie started months behind the curve because he didn't have the name recognition of Hillary, nor did he get any media time. While he used this time to his advantage and gained a huge backing, Hillary used the time to do whatever needed to be done to secure as many super-delegates as she could. Totally lopsided, unfair, and anti-democratic, if you ask me. But what it also tells me is Hillary KNEW she wouldn't get the FDR libs if anyone else ran, and she discounted us front the start. Instead, she'd try for the "women's vote," (and notice, that wasn't the Feminist vote!)... and then reach out to more repubicans to try to bring them into the party. That Trump actually was the last man standing over there has totally worked to her advantage now.

So, Bernie's got the election wins and a huge backing of people, but Hillary has most of the super delegates in her pocket.

Against this, Bernie may have started enough of a revolution for a whole new party. And I don't think it'd be long, after we once got organized and established, that we could start pushing back on the two party system... particularly when the main difference between the other two parties is how socially liberal one is over the other!

Is Trump admits the entire system is rigged.
Bernie castigates the system as rigged .
Hillary says "Ummm ", bla bla something something this n' that.
Hillary supporters say "Bernie lies bla bla yadda yadda loser something something.
Figuring this shit out in NOT rocket science folks.

A shift towards the center from Hillary would be a most welcome thing.

Strange bedfellows: the bizarre coalition of Kochs, neocons and Democrats allied against Trump and his #FUvoters

As a regular diet of Big Macs is nutritionally deficient, the constant delusional perspective presented as bread and circus for the masses by the corporate media is morally and intellectually deficient. The Intercept, Counter Punch, ShadowProof, I think these news sites probably have the vitamins you head craves. ;->

"Rather than Campaign as a Liberal Alternative to Trump, Clinton to Run as a Smarter Republican" - shadowproof.com

"... Hillary Clinton will directly appeal to moderate Republicans in order to win the general election, if she becomes the nominee.

The strategy will not only allow Clinton to be her authentic political self again, but it will also end the charade of moving to the left to appease supporters of her opponent, Bernie Sanders. It would also diminish any confusion over whether Clinton is anything more than a corporate Democrat, who progressives should approach with great skepticism and opposition. ..."

"Hillary Clinton and the End of the Democratic Party" - counterpunch.org

... what about Mrs. Clinton’s policies, or those of any other establishment Democrat for that matter, could inheritance babies, oil and gas industry magnates and long-term supporters of the radical Right like Mr. Koch possibly object to? Mr. Koch was simply saying out loud what anyone paying attention to American politics in recent decades already knows: the Democratic Party is the Party of Wall Street and of corporate America.

To the political inconvenience of said establishment Democrats, including Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Koch’s endorsement has content behind it. His charge (link above) is that establishment Democrats have the softer touch needed in present circumstance to sell Conservative policies like deregulation of industry and fiscal austerity. As Bill Clinton, whose policies Mr. Koch preferred to those of George W. Bush, and Barack Obama have demonstrated— it is socially liberal Democrats who have been the better proponents of Wall Street’s neo-capitalist takeover precisely because they accomplish with stealth economic policies what Republicans attempt more straightforwardly through politics. ...

issues, both domestic and foreign. He's actually exposed the BS debt meme today!! (is he an MMTer???)
"Whether through debt buyback or restructuring, neither of Trump's debt-reduction proposals from the past week square with his party's core approach on the issue -- deep spending cuts and entitlement program reform."
(and Grover agreed with that idea-thus exposing the debt argument as strictly an ideological position not based on facts. but is being used to impoverish the citizens and the commons)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/politics/donald-trump-national-debt-strategy/

Pretty much worldwide. The Clinton adorers either plan to personally gain or are completely blind to what's been done to them. The DNC/DLC/Third Wayers have effectively persuaded that Fear of Republicans is right up there with fear of ISIS, and everything possible should be done to take back our government for our beneficent rulers. Somehow, not noticing that the Republican Party is running most government levels in the US. Just keep saying encouraging words like "Run for School Board for a start, in 50 years you could be on the City Council!".

We can't even hold the multinational corporations to blame, and they run the globe.