CRAZY – AT 11:46 A.M. ET:  The Democrats have lost about a thousand legislative seats in the last eight years, and have lost control of the White House, the Senate, and the House.  But they still aren't getting the message.   Ignorance is indeed bliss.  From McClatchy: 

Liberal leaders have a warning for their lawmakers in Washington: Get in line, or else.

Frustrated by the party’s performance on Capitol Hill and emboldened by the mass protests against President Donald Trump, a coalition of progressive groups say they are open to supporting primary challengers next year against Democratic members of the House and Senate – even if many inside the party believe that intra-party races might ultimately only help the Republican Party gain more power.

The organizations, many run by former members of Bernie Sanders’ insurgent presidential campaign, say they haven’t drafted a list of targets just yet. But they vow to recruit, fund and support intra-party challengers if Democratic lawmakers don’t start doing more to oppose the new president and his congressional Republican allies.

“Every single Democratic incumbent considering aiding and abetting the Trump administration needs to consider their jobs at high risk,” said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America, a grassroots progressive advocacy group based in Vermont.

COMMENT:  If these people were in Japan in the early 1940s they'd be lining up to become kamikaze pilots. 

These amateurs don't realize that the Democratic Party can't afford to lose another election.  If it does, there will be an impetus for more thoughtful people to start a third party, a center-left party with broad appeal.  Or, the Republicans will just keep winning elections.   That's why some on our side our hoping for the Dems to go further and further left.  They seem to be obliging.

February 22, 2017