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In reply to the discussion: The Liberal Left is the Base of the Party [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)62. Links?
Links to you being a Liberal Leftist? I have none. Wished I could find one. Maybe you have one?
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I am member of the Democratic Party. Labels are useless as they are not easy to define and
lumpy
Mar 2014
#129
Because you are making it like a McCarthyite witch hunt. I've been here a long time
CJCRANE
Mar 2014
#72
You started the namecalling and you know it. This whole OP is just a big call out.
CJCRANE
Mar 2014
#83
funny thing, a lot of these "trolls" held the same views they did on 1/19/2009 as they do today..
frylock
Mar 2014
#86
Interesting. Did you know that many of those groups formed a coalition before the last election
sabrina 1
Mar 2014
#128
Haven't you already determined that you get to decide who the "liberal base" refers to?
JoePhilly
Mar 2014
#70
That only works when you self-appoint yourself as a liberal monitor and then call out others
CJCRANE
Mar 2014
#31
you don't have the credibility to categorize DUers in these little boxes you feel they belong it.
dionysus
Mar 2014
#49
you have no clue what people here think.there's so much 24/7 criticism coming from every conceivable
dionysus
Mar 2014
#120
I think the TOS are a mere suggestion rather than a mandate these days. But I don't own the joint.
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#135
Says who? This is the flip side of saying that the bible thumpers are the base
question everything
Mar 2014
#35
"Without an active Liberal left, the party would be all republican." QOTD
nationalize the fed
Mar 2014
#42
I don't know if they're the "base" of the party or not, if we're looking at sheer numbers.
Common Sense Party
Mar 2014
#53
Without moderate and conservative Democrats as well as a good number of Independent voters ...
spin
Mar 2014
#57
Take your poison money to the TeaPubliKlans, that sounds more up your alley
TheKentuckian
Mar 2014
#123
liberal leftist, in my compass chart with a splash of anarchism on my own, who knew?
juxtaposed
Mar 2014
#105
True. But the Greens and other far-left progressives aren't part of the base of the party,
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#110
Depends on what you mean by "base". Compare DU candidate support to the primaries
Recursion
Mar 2014
#119
Oh please, everyone knows it's Reagan Democrats who are the base of the party
Fumesucker
Mar 2014
#134