Democrats leftist lurch will make it difficult for them to win a national race

Mike Flynn:

At the annual NetRoots Nation gathering, two leading progressive candidates for the Democrat nomination were booed and heckled by protesters. The event could easily be remembered as a water-shed moment that confines the Democrat Party, at least in the near-term, to a weak national party that is only competitive in certain regions of the country.

NetRoots Nation is a conference of the Democrat Party’s most progressive and left-wing activists and bloggers. As part of its meeting, NetRoots hosted a “Presidential Town Hall” featuring socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% and progressive former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Few national political figures have embraced the full kaleidoscope of leftist policy proposals as eagerly as Sanders and O’Malley. The panel was even moderated by a celebrated leftist journalist who is also famously an illegal immigrant. Only a drum-circle and piped-in scents of patchouli were missing from what ought to have been a leftist dream-team of Presidential politics.

For the NetRoots activist crowd, though, it wasn’t enough. The event was loudly interrupted by a throng of activist from #BlackLivesMatter who challenged the panels’ commitment to progressive change. Both O’Malley and Sanders were flummoxed, with Sanders, at one point, asking the illegal immigrant moderator if he had “control” of the event.

O’Malley tried to address the activists by assuring them that, of course, “black lives matter.” He went on to make the equally true statement that “all lives matter.” For this “gaffe,” he had to make an awkward apology tour.
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The Black Lives Matter mantra borders on being black racist drivel and nonsense if they do not think other lives matter.  If it is something else then it is just a dumb slogan that makes no sense.

I think one of the things that holds some blacks back is the feeling that all of their struggles are because they are black.  But life is not always fair regardless of race or ethnicity.  Almost every one struggles with setbacks and it is not unique to any race.  But this kind of black paranoia can be self defeating.  It can turn a routine traffic stop into a confrontation

O'Malley's groveling to this nonsense is not going to be rewarded at the ballot box.  If this gang does not think all lives matter, then the likely response to their slogan will be to consider them nuts.