2016 Postmortem

tone in your personal attack, a la the last few sentences.

The Party has been ill-served by focusing on various groups' interests at the ignorance of others. It is unfortunate that you do not see this, and I am afraid that more election losses won't make a difference in your outlook. The approach you take is quite reminiscent of the language used over the last 50+ years, and after all that time, here we all are again, Bravenak.

You should note that in DU, the use of Racist/Racism is much like the term Pinko-Communist: All you have to do is land a stick of rhetorical bombs near the target and you score. 'Trouble is, everyone will some time, some where become a racist traipsing through the DU minefield, and where does that get us? "Vote for a racist, you are a racist. Period." Was LBJ a racist? Was LeRoy Collins a racist? Probably so. Yet yours is a hermetically sealed political outlook which brooks no deviation or violation of your own inviolable standards.

This is a big reason why we don't capture much of the "stupid and bigoted" vote. You don't for a moment think these people you so despise (including me, since the standard for racism here can be fairly hop-scotched over by an elderly person) don't see and know this?

You don't offer much new, Bravenak, just the same stuff tooted over half a century earlier.