How do we rebuild the Democratic Party?

[baldguy]

15. You'll never get what you claim to want if you cast people who actually win elections as the enemy.

All Democratic candidates are The Next Bright Hope For A New Generation® - until they actually win & work to govern the country. (See Barack Obama, Bill & Hillary, John Kerry, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.) If they're successful, you try to paint them as "Blue Dog, Third Way, corporate Democrats".

Your problem is that you're happier when Democrats play the Suffering Martyr: whiny, ineffective & - most importantly - out of power. And as soon as they get involved with the messy business of govt, they become tainted in your eyes.

Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. You can't claim to be a liberal Democrat while you play the elitist & refuse to get your hands dirty & refuse to associate with those who do. The real liberal Democrats are the ones that work to get real liberal Democrats elected, and support them when they campaign real liberal Democratic policies.

Anyone who advocates for a third party, anyone cut & runs away from Democrats at the first sign of difficulty, anyone who looks at any Democratic candidate in a general election & says "well, I can't vote for her because *reasons*" - whether it's because that candidate had audacity to earn a living in the real world, or that she was a dedicated Republican for most of her adult life - are the people who are not real Democrats.