The Quotable Reich

I know why, socialism!

Did you reject it when you were in the military?

I had better coverage from my private insurance.

For which you paid premiums, correct?

And activists, like Heather Booth, herself a famed civil rights organizer, told the "Democrats Live" audience that the anti-Trump marchers could only achieve their goals by "electoralizing" themselves and working with the DNC.

Movements and parties don't always get along. The Tea Party, the most recent forebearer of the "resistance," spent almost as much time battling the Republican party as it did the President Barack Obama. And some movements, like Occupy Wall Street, don't want anything to do with elections.

Still, it's increasingly clear to both the anti-Trump grassroots and the party that they need each other.

Some potential friction was evident even in the safe confines of the DNC basement last week despite its invitation-only studio-audience when a woman publicly confronted Ellison on Sanders' refusal to formally join the Democratic party of which he is not a member.

Ellison disagreed, engaging in a brief but tense exchange with her just before the cameras rolled.

"I think we need every single American who's willing to vote for us and support what we're doing to be part of it. And if we start saying, 'you need to be a card-carrying Democrat,' well, that's subtraction and we need to be operating on the basis of addition and multiplication," Ellison said later in an interview.

"I'm not insensitive to the concerns she's raising, but we can't be a club," Ellison continued. "We are an advocacy agency that coalesces around a set of values and tries to win elections to advance those values. And I don't care if you're a moderate Republican or a Jill Stein voter, we want you."

Ellison recently gave up his co-chairmanship of Congressional Progressive Caucus to focus on his DNC duties, including hosting "Democrats Live." He has big plans for the show, touting newly purchased equipment that will allow remote interviews.

"It's all driven by the fact that there are people scattered all across this country that if you say, what are the Democrats up to, too many of them would say, 'I don't know,'" Ellison said. "If there's one thing that our party must do, it is connect with our base."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been a guest. Ellison soon expects to book Sanders, along with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrats in each chamber of Congress.

Sanders has his own show on Facebook Live, which generally enjoys more views thanks to his massive online footprint.

@Baldimo,
I know you have a sense of humor, Baldimo.

We were simply discussing healthcare benefits and their relative costs to consumers.

When socialism isn't enough you want to just steal?

Says the guy who takes other people's money to participate in a phony baloney weekend warrior program run by the biggest communist organization on the planet.

That you even have to ask the question you have shows how far gone you are.

Everything is supplied to you and everything you are to think is described to you. The introduction is a weeks long brainwashing/reeducation camp.

Until Democrats adopt a liberal friendly attitude, I can't see them getting a lot of our help. I don't say they can't regain the presidency and possibly the senate, but they are not likely to take back the country from conservative Republicans as they currently operate.

The democratic party IS liberal friendly.

It's all Yes, Sir, No, Sir. It's a place that harbors war criminals, terrorists, rapists, liars of the most extraordinary kind, liars who support other liars, murderers, the world's most brainwashed people, ... .