Look. I get it. Most of the country isn't Inglewood, California, or Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. I began this essay with the title "The Big Tent and the path forward". And I'm willing to hold my nose and hope Heath Mello wins that Nebraska seat, because more likely than not he will be with us more than against us.

However, it's illustrative that Sanders focuses on just one aspect of Democratic politics. He is a one-note Johnny. He sees Wall Street as the locus of all evil in our Republic. And that's just not the case.

I will say this now, and I will say this proudly: I am NOT a progressive. I am a LIBERAL. A dyed-in-the-wool, suckled-at-my-mother's-teat liberal. The Great Satan Ronald Reagan, much to our detriment, made "liberal" a dirty word. So we developed "progressive" to replace it. Pardon my language, but fuck that shit. Liberals have achieved anything of worth which has happened in this country. We brought Social Security. We brought Medicare. We brought civil rights.

But we are an ahistorical nation. We don't remember what happened last week much less fifty years ago. We don't remember the great things which the Democratic Party has done. Has the Party made mistakes? Damned right it has. But if you can compare a Democratic Party which strives, however imperfectly, to perfect the Union, with a Republican Party which sinks further and further into a cesspool of pathology, and consider them to be the same, then the problem isn't with the Democrats, but with your blinkered view on life.

I'm for the Big Tent, as the following two tweets illustrate: