Great Confucian Truths:
1. A several-million-majority of Democrats chose Hillary over Bernie and therefore Bernie, and his policies, did not get voted in, and those policies did not change the laws to effect our lives.
2. Many progressives chose to stay home or not to vote for Hillary, who they saw as corporate, and therefore none of her policies became laws that could effect our lives.
Progressives can walk away from the Democratic party, perhaps with the belief that “the two party system is corrupt” and they can effectively sabotage the Democrats from ever getting in unless they, the Democrats, move left.
Democrats can walk away from any progressive candidate they don’t like in the Democratic primaries and effectively prevent any of those candidates from winning, and prevent those policies from ever becoming law.
So what do we do?