Jim Webb has figured out why Democrats are losing so badly.

Canada Free Press wrote:
Back in 2015, when Jim Webb ended his campaign to become the Democrat’s presidential nominee, I referred to him as “the Dems’ only adult.” It had been clear, for months, that Webb stood no chance of gaining any sort of traction among the rabid lefties that control today’s Democrat party.  It was just never going to happen.

The reason? He’s sane.

That alone disqualified him.  Before he even announced his candidacy, his very sanity doomed him.  Democrats demanded candidates who would drag the entire country into a radical left-wing morass, so they ended up with Bernie and Hillary.

As the saying goes, “human events proceed with irresistible logic.”  Dems suffered a disastrous, soul-crushing, hysteria-inducing defeat at the hands of their ultimate boogeyman, Donald Trump.  They face another electoral bloodbath in 2018 and their 2020 bench is as shallow as a puddle of spit in the Sahara.

This weekend, Jim Webb did a nice job of laying out the Democrats’ woes…

Democrats are looking at 2018. And they don’t have a message.

The message that has been shaped by the Democratic party has been shaped toward identity politics and they’ve lost the key part of their base.
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The Democrats have not done the kind of self-reflection that they should have starting in 2010. You’ve lost white working people. You’ve lost flyover land, and you saw in this election what happens when people get frustrated enough that they say, ‘I’m not going to take this.

There is an aristocracy now that pervades American politics. It’s got to be broken somehow in both parties, and I think that’s what the Trump message was that echoed so strongly in these flyover communities.

He’s 100% correct. Right now, Dems are scrambling to do the impossible: find a message that will play to normal, non-rabid, human beings without alienating their bat-crap crazy base.  “Impossible” in this case, is not used lightly, since any move to the center will be met with the same kind of violence and rage we currently see directed at conservatives.

By the way, Democrats could have recognized this issue a while back.  All they needed to do was heed the warnings of ...presidential candidate Jim Webb.
For the record, Jim Webb’s presidential hopes ended with the sentence “The party has moved way far to the left and that’s not my Democratic party.”


Congratulations, Democrats.  You ignored his warnings and your party faceplanted hard enough to leave an impact crater.

Please, do us all a favor and stay the course. Continue to blame hackers, Comey, Obama, Trump, racism, talk radio, sexism, fake news, Nazis, global warming, Fox, Bush, whatever.

We’re all better off while the left is trapped in denial.

Politico wrote:
But, in the fourth week of Trump’s presidency, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows that Democrats could be in trouble — and Trump could triumph — if they continue their lurch to the left.

Despite the public’s increasing misgivings about Trump’s behavior and tactics in the White House, he still beats Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a hypothetical matchup, 42 percent to 36 percent — a fairly impressive margin for a less-than-popular president against the prominent senator.

Ben wrote:
How the fuck do you lose the popular vote by 3 million and then gloat and lecture to the side that won?

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:I know that it's a jagged pill to swallow, Ben, but people have had it with the lefties and liberals.  
Just look at Politico's poll of Trump vs Warren.  What do those results tell you?  That's right, it says that even though Trump is unpopular, he's still more popular than a Liberal.

Thorin wrote:
Are you thus saying you believe Democracy is dead?

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:

Thorin wrote:
Are you thus saying you believe Democracy is dead?

Liberalism != Democracy

Quit conflating the two.
They're two different words that mean two different things.

Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.^[1][2][3] Whereas classical liberalism emphasises the role of liberty, social liberalism stresses the importance of equality.^[4] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas and programmes such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality, and international cooperation.

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:

Thorin wrote:
Are you thus saying you believe Democracy is dead?

Liberalism != Democracy

Quit conflating the two.
They're two different words that mean two different things.

Thorin wrote:
Democracy is a Liberal Value

DNC lawyers have just responded to a class-action lawsuit over their primary being rigged, arguing that maintaining a fair and balanced primary was merely a “political promise.”

The lawyers argued that “Courts have uniformly rejected attempts to litigate on the basis of purported political promises, including ‘statements of principle and intent in the political realm.”

Essentially, the DNC’s promise to remain neutral and fair during the primary is a political promise similar to “policy proposals made in campaign platforms that aren’t fulfilled when in office.”

What’s worse is that the DNC’s lawyers claimed that Bernie Sanders’ supporters were aware that the DNC and chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz were biased against their candidate, an argument that has never been substantiated.

http://thepoliticalinsider.com/dnc-rigged-stole-election-from-bernie-sanders/

Yeah, the Democratic party loves democracy soooooo much that they made a farce out of it. The DNC's own attorney is arguing in court that maintaining a fair and balanced primary was merely a “political promise.” Just a promise... that they had no intention of keeping. The Democratic Primary wasn't a democratic event, as it was "promised" to be. So much for democracy within the Liberal ranks, huh?

veya wrote:
You do realize in most nations Liberal means Right Wing?

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:
I know that it's a jagged pill to swallow, Ben, but people have had it with the lefties and liberals.  
Just look at Politico's poll of Trump vs Warren.  What do those results tell you?  That's right, it says that even though Trump is unpopular, he's still more popular than a Liberal.

Lord Independent Thoughts wrote:

Ben wrote:
How the fuck do you lose the popular vote by 3 million and then gloat and lecture to the side that won?

Won?  Lol!!
What did you "win"?  In case you hadn't noticed, Trump is our new POTUS. You Lost.  The popular vote that you tout isn't anything more than a conciliatory prize -- a participation trophy for the Liberals to cling to when they're feeling depressed.

Ben wrote:
And I think Wolf is dead right about the quality of the source.

Law Newz wrote:
According to the DNC’s argument, the assumption that the presidential nominating process was fair can not amount to an appropriate basis for a lawsuit because any indications of fairness are nothing more than “purported political promises.” Why did they make that argument? It was a clever legal maneuver. In general, neither donors nor constituents have standing to sue over broken political promises based on a variety of long-held legal principles, not the least of which is that as an appropriate remedy “voters are free to vote out of office those politicians seen to have breached campaign promises…” Only the 2016 election could make assumptions of basic fairness seem dirty and suspect.

The Observer wrote:
Sanders supporters deserve some sort of restitution for the Democratic primaries, as their voices were silenced by the DNC’s efforts to elect Clinton. It would set a dangerous precedent to allow the DNC and Clinton to walk away from the primaries and win the presidency, with no meaningful reforms to address the issues that subverted the democratic process.

If this is how it’s going to be, Democratic presidential candidates will have no reason to specifically court voters in the primaries. Instead they will instead focus on gaining influence within the DNC and Democratic Party leadership, so that behind the scenes, those officials can manufacture consent for their preferred candidate’s coronation among the Democratic Party’s registered voters.