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In reply to the discussion: Why doesn't the Democratic Party have a platform anymore? [View all]Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)get Democrats to buy into the notion that the only way we can win elections is to pursue some center-right philosophy. There is a reason why you'll hear many pundits declare Clinton as the "greatest Republican president". He and now Obama have co-opted GOP ideals. Yes, they still talk about the middle class, but speaking on poverty, the poor, is politically futile. I love Clinton and Obama, but the move by the Democratic Party to the right has given the Republicans the ammunition they need to fulfill their decades-old objective: destroy government from within, then point to it and say, "see, it doesn't work!".
The DLC has done great damage to the party brand. These days, Democrats act more like Republicans and Republicans? They get to run up deficits, start wars, and squander budget surpluses and they know that Americans will expect Democrats to clean it up.