Reply #193: When we stop fighting for our rights

[benevolent dictator]

then the Republicans are free to remove them.

This "sacrifice their rights for the greater good" is bullshit. The Dems endless quest to appear "more mainstream" and "more centrist" is futile, all it does is push the "middle" to the right until the Democrats are all Republicans and the Republicans are all Fascists. No one seems to realize how many Leftists the Dems are losing to apathy (both parties are the same, so why bother voting?) and to third parties like the Greens and the Socialists.

Maybe instead of giving up rights, we should try running someone who isn't "Republican-Lite" for a change. I bet that if we had focused a ton on Kucinich before the primaries that Kerry would have won regardless of the Gay Marriage issue. If they had seen what a REAL liberal wanted to do, they wouldn't have been able to paint Kerry and Edwards as "the most liberal people ever who are going to turn our country into a communist state and we'll all starve and die and gay people will get married in the streets and they'll make abortions mandatory!!" </over-dramatization> Maybe if Democrats stood up for their policies and their platforms once in a while, they'd win. I'm sick of this "we'll win if we just move more righ- I mean center!" bullshit.