Bernie Sanders lambasts 'absolute failure' of Democratic party's strategy

[That Guy 888]

237. While we shouldn't "lose sight of who our adversaries are" there is a unity problem.

Your post and a few others seem to say: the 2016 primary is long over (it is) and lets unite, in respectful silence behind the leadership that has been losing elections for 20+ years (with a pitifully few exceptions).

If I can be just as ageist as your "grumpy old man routine" statement, take a look at the ages of our young and vibrant Democratic Party leadership compared to Senator Sanders:

Bernie Sanders age 75 years
Hillary Clinton age 69 years
Chuck Schumer age 66 years
Nancy Pelosi age 77 years

I'm pointing this out because much of our party leadership is "of an age" to have seen "hippy culture" bring down the Democratic Party before. They operate out of fear of McGovern, and Democratic primary voters electing someone unable to win a general election. They fear Reagan stomping them into the dirt. They fear a renewed and reinvigorated Newt Gingrich-type Gopper making America even more divided. In short: they fear.

Charles Manson is in jail. Most voters today wouldn't know what the Altamont Free Concert was, and Reagan's dead. Newt Gingrich is divisively referred to as "fat Elvis". The only way that this country can get more divided is if the GOP is allowed to start using paramilitaries on the street - something that some Republicans want.

We need the Democratic Party to not be frightened of fighting the GOP, change or the voters of the Democratic Party.