Why I left the Democratic Party

Trump and his isolated and roundly, correctly-maligned behavior is an anomaly in our history.

Clinton’s stealthy anti-democratic neoliberalism, which goes unreported by her aligned media, has sneaked up through decades, camouflaged as correctness.

The other is more than half-way to a Fascism you don’t see—and won’t—until it is choking the life out of you and everyone you love.

You are a "loyal Democrat."

. . . I'm unlikely to become president, even if I were a guy.

It is not intended to replay the last presidential election again and again, but to goad them into being reasonable, to stop tossing out the progressives, even as this is written.

Do you not understand that it's the job of Progressive to CONVINCE people their policies can work.

...my attempts at restoring positivity to the party of being negative.

I've offered stuff here that you call wrong, but don't bother to address. It is a many pronged problem. One is to get you to accept progressives' right to even participate fairly. I've read statements by many establishment Dems claiming it is their right to shut out other candidates in favor of the chosen (Hillary) one. Which leads me to wonder: Why hold primaries if you have already declared the winner?

You say progressive programs can't work. Of course not when you people drag your feet and act like big business shills all the time.

Do you not understand that it's the job of Progressive to CONVINCE people their policies can work? Nobody is 'tossing them out.' It's simply a failure on the part of the Progressive movement to show that their plans would in fact be superior to the ones that the rest of the party is going with.

America appears to be far more center-left than center-right. In a recent analysis of Democracy Fund Voter Study Group survey data, the political scientist Lee Drutman found that 73.5 percent of the 2016 electorate espoused broadly left-of-center views on economic policy.

That finding is supported by polling on individual fiscal issues over the past year. Recent surveys have shown that most Americans — including majorities of Republican voters — support increasing federal financing of health care and oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy. [...] Recent polls have found that over 60 percent of Americans support tuition-free public college (a majority that includes 58 percent of independents and 47 percent of Republicans); that over 60 percent of all voters favor Medicaid and Medicare buy-in programs, while a slim majority likes the sound of single-payer; and that 82 percent of voters, including 70 percent of Republicans, support new legislation expanding access to paid family and medical leave.