Then let's also ensure the party bears some blame for putting out a candidate that people didn't actually want.
Clinton won the primary. Should the Democrats have ignored that? Just picked someone else for no reason? They picked the person who won the primaries, she won a record amount of votes in the end. The choice at that point was between a plain racist/fascist or someone who was not the perfect unicorn candidate for some people. Trump didn't win PA, MI, and FL because of voter suppression, he won them because people wanted Trump or couldn't do the bare minimum to prevent a backsliding of rights in this nation.
If someone is a 'progressive' and didn't like Clinton but still voted, and votes in every election, or they were disenfranchised, then I don't blame them. They tried at least, they met their responsibility.
But I will and repeatedly blame every single person who *choose* to sit out 2016 regardless of how 'safe' their state was just as much as every single person who choose to pick Trump. This blood is on their hands, not the Democratic party's, not Clinton's, not those who showed up.
I wasn't attempting to veil this. I thought this was largely accepted. Lots of Americans think they're on the left, but globally Democrats are only barely and sometimes left of the center. Sometimes on social issues... and then there's everything else.
My senators are Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren. My Rep is Ayanna Pressley (who primaried another progressive, long seated Rep). You're going to tell me they're just barely left of center? If that's the case who in the fucking WORLD is actually more than 'only barely' left of center and has any power?
