Reply #44: You paint an unfair and erroneus picture of democrats.

[K-W]

You are just demonizing them. Democrats are not trolls who live under a bridge. To a man they all want to think they are helping people.

People who lose elections do not do well in politics. You are missing a very important point. If the democrats didnt win any more elections, they wouldnt have a party, they would have no resources and they would have no power. They exist solely to get people elected, it is why people give them money and why people give them power.

The fear thing is a little true. People who make decisions with big consequences tend to be fairly risk aversive. The more you have to lose the less risks you tend to take. So politicians are very cautious of change and are very risk aversive.

even if it seems that trending more liberal could result in more votes this year, there is still a strong urge to stick with what has worked at least a little bit in the past and stay centrists and stay business. So the party is only very reluctantly moving a little liberal until they have actual results that convince them that it isnt so risky to be liberal. They to see liberal election results for them to take the chance of destroying the party.