It's not about Bernie. Not everything is about Bernie, ok?

This is about the fact that the Democratic Party has had almost four to try and find some way of engaging Sanders people, some way of connecting with them, gaining their trust, working to meet them half way, and instead of doing that, the partu has spent nearly the entire four years saying "nothing doing-we're just going to ignore these people, fight like hell to nominate the most status quo candidate we can impose, re-run the 2016 fall campaign-only duller-because we don't accept the fact that the result that November proves that re-running the 2016 campaign can only lead to another defeat".

That's why they were so obsessed with chanting "It was Comey/The Russians/Voter Suppression, Dammit!"- the people who insisted that it HAD to be Biden this year and it HAD to be a platform that was, on all the major points, to the right of 2016-it has progressive aspects, but only in the unnoticeable crevices- were bound and determined to prevent any change-not just Bernie but the nomination of any progressive outsider at all- because many of them, quite frankly, would rather lose than LET the party move on.

I'll be campaigning for Biden, as I did for Hillary all fall-but the way the Biden campaign is handling all of this-it's obsession with looking bland and "safe", more than anything else- terrifies a lot of progressives.

And even if Biden wins-and I hope he does- there is a real chance that the party's establishment's intransigence may drive the young out of not only Democratic politics but any political involvement at all for the next twenty years-like the anti McGovern backlash helped unjustly crush the remnants of Sixties activist energy and create the political dead zones of the Eighties and Nineties.