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In reply to the discussion: Know your BFEE: Siegelman Judge is a big-time War Profiteer [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)a turn-coat Centrist that wants to appease the Republicans.
There is an interesting article in the Dec 24/31, issue of The Nation magazine entitled, "How to Save the Democratic Party." The article is good as are some of the responses published after the article. One of the things I took away is that the progressive progress made this year was not do to Democratic Party efforts. There are a number of progressive organizations working outside the Party to see that progressive candidates are nominated and elected as well as progressive issues promoted. I have done a lot of grassroots work, meetings, protests, email and phone call campaigns, GOTV calls and door to door canvasing, and never have they been initiated by the Democratic Party. But it is very important that these progressive organizations take back the Democratic Party from the Centrists or right-wing of the Party.