Why are people so insistent that the Democratic Party is fatally flawed?

[aikoaiko]

135. You're correct. The Party isn't fatally flawed or falling apart, but it needs to some reflecting.

Let's say you're correct that only those three things you mentioned cost us the GE

1. Regarding the hacked HRC Campaign emails: The Russian hacks revealed stupid and sketchy conversations by Clinton staff. That's a discipline issue and should have been controlled. It is elementary that anything you write in email can be exposed and used against you and your candidate. This was under our control and hubris led to poor decisions.

2. Regarding Comey: Weinergate gave Comey the opportunity to do what he did. People suggested that Huma rid herself of The Weiner because he could be used to take Huma or HRC down as early as 2011. We didn't make the hard decisions. Again, because of hubris, we failed to see The Weiner landmine.

3. Racism and Sexism: For the explicit racist and sexist, there is not much for a Democrat to do in a campaign, but for the many who simply were not bothered by Trump's racism and sexism because it doesn't affect them, they could be reached and we didn't do a good job of inspiring white people, especially white men to embrace social justice even if it doesn't impact them -- even if it hurts them in some ways. I, for one, was impressed with HRCs strategy of explicit social justice and how far it got her. It was a solid strategy in the primary and by October I was convinced it would work in the GE. HRC led with social justice and followed with a strong economic message, but it didn't resonate enough with white men and women.

I hope there is a message and messenger out there who can maintain the positive work that HRC has done to make social justice issues explicit and provide the two-fold message to white men and women that they can help achieve social justice and that their social and economic lives will improve.