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The Democratic Party is a disaster. We have to start over
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 5, 2017 | by Maria Bustillos

Posted on 11/06/2017 11:14:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

You know the “Blue Screen of Death”? The way your PC screen turns blue when the Windows operating system goes kaput? During the Clinton administration, the cause of a BSoD was liable to be hardware-related — owing, say, to a failed motherboard — so the bluetastrophe was lethal. Irreparable.

The disaster that befell the Democratic Party a year ago is exactly this kind of fatal blow, a political BSoD.

We Democrats believed that things were moving, slowly, in the right direction; that our Republican friends and relatives would see sense, somehow, eventually — no way were they really that racist, or that hypocritical. We believed our Democratic leaders would play fair, and prove worthy of our trust; that their loyalty to rich donors would diminish, that progressives would gain power within the party.

But we were blind to the truth, and blindsided by the catastrophic ineptitude of our leadership. Against all sense, at a time of dangerous polarization and unrest, Democrats were pressured to back a candidate of legendary unpopularity. The party’s chair was ousted at a crucial moment because she abused her power on behalf of that candidate.

The Democratic establishment caused the Blue Screen of Death. We need a new computer with a freshly installed operating system, and pronto. There is no reboot or Safe Mode available. The only option is to throw out the broken machine.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; democrats; dnc; dncstrategy; election2016; hillary2016; liberals; progressives; socialism
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Maria Bustillos is a Los Angeles journalist and critic.
1 posted on 11/06/2017 11:14:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She is delusional. She thinks the Democrats have not gone far left enough.


2 posted on 11/06/2017 11:19:45 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To start over there must be direction and a leader.

At present there is neither.

At some point in the throes of absolute death a strong young charismatic voice will emerge and lead the stragglers forward.

However........ the pain and death are going to get much much worse before such a voice will be heard.


3 posted on 11/06/2017 11:20:00 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“catastrophic ineptitude”

And much more importantly, corruption.


4 posted on 11/06/2017 11:20:15 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maria Bustillos is a koolaide drinking moron, weeping that it’s so hard to get people to drink her vile brew.


5 posted on 11/06/2017 11:20:23 AM PST by samtheman (Where is the Clinton Dossier that is the product of Trump/Russian collusion?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought it was the Republicans in turmoil. Huh!


6 posted on 11/06/2017 11:20:32 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When they start over, they will simply re-make it as a socialist party.


7 posted on 11/06/2017 11:21:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe they have some understanding of how Republican voters felt during the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

Nah....


8 posted on 11/06/2017 11:21:12 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is as if your foot were cut off, you realized something serious was wrong, and so you sought to replace your hand.


9 posted on 11/06/2017 11:21:16 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please keep calling us racist because we don’t buy the line of excrement you keep trying to tell us is indeed not polished excrement but a rare black pearl...

Keep it up, please... for as long as you keep calling everyone who does t agree with you racists or other names, the more solid the oppsition to every polished turd you try to sell will become.


10 posted on 11/06/2017 11:21:32 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Best. Election. EVER!


11 posted on 11/06/2017 11:22:20 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep! They need to relive 1917 and re-tool...


12 posted on 11/06/2017 11:23:31 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: marktwain

“no way were they really that racist”...and right there is the Dem blindspot, they think everyone else is a klansman and that is why they are doomed... good riddance idiots.


13 posted on 11/06/2017 11:23:39 AM PST by databoss
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

you mean RESET button? Lol


14 posted on 11/06/2017 11:23:45 AM PST by beergarden
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about Maria Bustillos (author) and other Democrat Party leaders start by having their minions stop KILLING people with whom they disagree. You know, the Congressional shooter, the Texas church shooter, the guy who attacked Sen. Rand Paul.

Democrats are ultra violent and their enablers are constantly sketching out an alternate reality and subtly, yet certainly, encouraging violence. This all needs to stop before the fuse gets lit.


15 posted on 11/06/2017 11:24:39 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You have to go to that page and read the rest of it. Especially the next article.

They are still clueless, trust me on that.

16 posted on 11/06/2017 11:24:48 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: marktwain

She is delusional. She thinks the Democrats have not gone far left enough.


This has been the truly fun part of this since the election. They have been doubling down on insanity since day one and are shedding the rational party members at a wonderful rate.


17 posted on 11/06/2017 11:25:13 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: marktwain
She is delusional. She thinks the Democrats have not gone far left enough.

No, she is exactly right. Not nearly far enough. Do it! Do it!

18 posted on 11/06/2017 11:25:43 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I recommend the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as the design for a new m/b.


19 posted on 11/06/2017 11:26:54 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Progressivism is a disaster. Why don’t y’all go away and shut up and let us restore governance by constitutional means for a change rather than regroup and find a new forum to advance your political and social cancer?


20 posted on 11/06/2017 11:27:00 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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