Look, I understand your disappointment over losing Nevada. I feared the same thing would happen to Hillary. (Spare me stories about the victories outside the most populous county in the state; she won.) Did she take advantage of caucus rules? Sure like Sanders in Iowa and Obama in 2008. It meant she had an organization in Nevada and (you will soon see) across the country. It takes disciplined organizations to win national elections.
Every other diary spews vitriol about Hilary’s campaign spreading lies, suppressing votes, and squandering the pre-ordained democratic socialist victory. It feels like I stumbled across a site for middle schoolers where all the KOOL KIDS recommend their friend’s diaries.
If you want your way, then work for it. This means reaching out in-between elections by
attending small meetings (yes democratic clubs where everyone is older than your parents), contacting church leaders (even if you don’t share their or any faith), talking to actual workers (not just fellow union members/activists), and participating in community rebuilding efforts (which many of you do but not as an ORGANIZED force). [Yes, I have done all these things in my life even after leaving my original organization.]
You hate the people taking those steps because the Party absorbs them. You deride them as “neo-liberal, centrist, sell-outs” without acknowledging you cut off their support within the party. You won’t acknowledge gains they make on local, regional, and (yes) national levels because they make compromises. Nor will you admit any role you played in mid-terms by dropping out of elections (i.e. not voting). Who cares if candidates “don’t excite” you. Staying home gets you nothing.
You want to take over the democratic party then you work from the bottom up and on a local level (like the Republican conservatives who took over school boards and city councils). Or you take the time to build a third party who can run people in 50 states for these types of elections. Even if you don’t take control, you take enough power to make demands. Yes, it’s possible to sell democratic populism in the small and Southern states (Trump does it but provides scapegoats instead of solutions).
But you don’t show up every 4 or 8 fucking years threatening to hold national elections hostage, spitting on people who actually work to hold power, and demonizing everyone who disagrees as “racist, old-ladies who will die soon anyway.” Or if you do, understand you won’t suddenly stumble across power in the next election or two (i.e. as YOU age). Instead, you again will be on outside stamping your feet in fury.