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...at least not to someone who paid attention to those fights.

We haven't had a veto-proof majority or a filibuster resistant majority in ages, so it's really something to portray those losses as some lack of Democratic party will when you should know well that we not only faced filibusters, but had two republican friendly Democrats, TWO, who kept us from achieving SOME planks of our Democratic agenda, both in committee and on the floor in the respective chambers.

What you've written here is a projection, not proof of anything except maybe your own disappointment that something or the other didn't get accomplished.

The thing is, without a Democratic majority, NONE of what you want will EVER get accomplished.

What we saw last election were some very stupid protests against Democrats which assumed there was going to be some epic changes to the Democratic party that would come about by just sitting on their hands and allowing republicans to get control of all branches of government.

Brilliant plan from these folks who can't seem to grasp the fact that our party is a coalition of often disparate and diverse interests which have chosen to unite to give their initiatives a chance to advance through the legislature into action of law.

Not every initiative or interest is guaranteed in that process, but politics isn't always a zero-sum enterprise.

The 'overlords' projected here as omnipresent and overpowering only have one vote apiece. Their interest is to divide our Democratic votes, and they did a good job of that divisiveness last election, even though we got damn close in the House.

Vote for the Democratic nominee, elect a Democratic majority, and argue all of that out in a position of power. Ignore the people insisting on perpetually fighting those primary battles as if they can magically make legislative solutions happen without building coalitions of like-minded legislators who may well disagree on some things.

Resist those who treat governing like a campaign, and can't or won't tell you the actual legislative plan or political path to what they say they want, because, for any political movement to succeed it must have a legislative solution at it's end, as well as sufficient numbers of Democrats in office to make those aspirations and ideals happen.

Anyone who strays from that equation is auguring for even more of this bickering in the minority, instead of the progressive progress that ALL Democratic majorities achieve, every time they're in power.