Reply #41: So this is a "big tent" board

[MadHound]

Until a person decides to criticize the Dems, even if the criticism is valid? Doesn't sound very progressive to me, in fact that sounds rather regressive. Look, the DNC as it currently is, and the DLC as it has been operating is what drove most of us life long Dems away. Now the purge is complete except for silencing the critics. And that will come soon.

Real big tent, real thick skin. People around here can baselessly slam the Greens, yet if we decide to constructively criticize the DLC we get slammed, banned and purged. No wonder the Dems are becoming more and more irrelevant, they can't take the medicine that will ultimately do them the most good. Who do you think most Greens are? They're Dems that the party in its quest ever rightward left behind. Why do you think most of us went Green. To ultimately help the party, to shake it up and wake it up. We agree on more things than not(including the damage that the DLC is doing). Why not listen to us instead of scream at us? More and more around here it looks like the answer is simply to have a scapegoat to kick around.

Real mature, real good way to bring people back into the party.