Democrats used to stand for principles

[MADem]

16. There's no way you can call the midterms a win.

Plenty of progressives LOST, too, you seem to forget. You can't cherry pick.

The candidates who won ran good, well-funded campaigns and got their points across. The candidates who lost didn't, or were outspent and scandalized, as the GOP will do.

Stop playing the victim. No one is telling you to "stfu and vote." You're not being frogmarched to the polls and handed a pre-filled out ballot. You have choices. You choose to hang around this clubhouse, which is a site that supports Democrats for election. No one is forcing you to stay here if it doesn't suit your needs. And if it does suit your needs, find a candidate from within the party ranks and support them--just stop trying to tear other candidates down. It makes you look like the only ideas you have are "I don't like THAT one." That's not a winning strategy.

I'm voting for the Democratic nominee. Whosoever is nominated by my party, that's where my vote is going. Most of the "Hillary Sucks" crowd won't make that same assertion, which makes me wonder why they even bother hanging around a site that says, in the TOS, that "...Democratic Underground is an online community for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office. " I mean, that's our PURPOSE here. So support your favorite Democratic candidate all you want. But if the only way you can support a candidate is by tearing another one down, you're going to lose.

The worst Democrat is better than the best Republican.