With friends like these….

Some words used by a well-known Democratic Party of Wisconsin official to describe fellow liberals/Democrats who question how the party has handled things here in Wisconsin since 2010:

  • “crank”
  • “gasbag”
  • “War profiteer”
  • “goldbricker”
  • “childlike”
  • “ridiculous”
  • “malcontent”

While I know as well as anyone how easy it is to “Monday morning quarterback” the decisions made by party insiders when it comes to electoral politics here in Wisconsin, I know that we liberals/Democrats/progressives aren’t going to win the fights we need to fight if we don’t learn how to communicate without essentially shouting at each other – and at the rest of our fellow Wisconsinites.

And for the record, I think it’s healthy for those of us on the left who aren’t party insiders to question the decisions made by our leadership, because some self-examination and discussion about what went wrong certainly seems to be in order.

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