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In reply to the discussion: It Is TIME TO EMBRACE Criticisms Of The Democratic Party To ENSURE It LIVES UP To Its Tenets [View all]RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)34. Today's "leftists" used to go by another name: the center
The country hasn't shifted right. The carefully-managed discourse has.
Corporations make it extremely difficult for truly progressive views to get any airtime and impossible for anyone even slightly left of center to be elected president.
The fact that many people on this board consider MSNBC to be a bastion of the left just proves how pathetically far we've fallen.
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Segami
May 2014
OP
True words, I couldn't agree more and the rate of acceleration is increasing.
A Simple Game
May 2014
#60
And it's one sure way to reinforce the opinions of those who think both parties are alike.
calimary
May 2014
#43
"voting for a Democrat who will govern with the tolerant middle-class centric values"
Maedhros
May 2014
#24
Agreed, but how do we do that when even 90% of DUers are only concerned with the middle class?
Dragonfli
May 2014
#51
"What could be accomplished by an internal war between our far left and our middle?"
jtuck004
May 2014
#7
Wow, you see the Republicans as victims of the fictional 'Tea Party' which is just a bunch of
Bluenorthwest
May 2014
#9
Aw wouldnt it be swell if our we could tell the enemy from the letter behind politician's names.
rhett o rick
May 2014
#50
LOL, there is no "far left" in the Democratic party, and what you call the middle is actually
Dragonfli
May 2014
#52
Yet the 1930s-40s counterparts to today's progressive movement wanted very little to do with FDR.
wyldwolf
May 2014
#10
All I can say is the left of that day bellyached about FDR the way they do about Obama today (links)
wyldwolf
May 2014
#27
I've heard that repeated here many times. I don't find it relevant to the discussion we're having
wyldwolf
May 2014
#35
It was a comment on post #8 which essentially states FDR is the model we should aim for.
wyldwolf
May 2014
#36
This goes without saying but as many have said over and over and over again critism isn't
uponit7771
May 2014
#15
We're on the FAST TRACK to turning today's Democratic Party into yesterday's Republican Party.
Enthusiast
May 2014
#28
The main "tenet" of the party, nowadays, is to "embrace" whatever tenet that will give it a win.
Tierra_y_Libertad
May 2014
#37
Dinos are welcome in hopes of them attracting repuke votes for the Dem side. FFS
L0oniX
May 2014
#49
I don't know if they mentioned re the Corporatism that has taken hold of the Dem Party going backa
sabrina 1
May 2014
#47
Weakest? We were weakest in 2003. When we couldn't even stop the invasion of Iraq.
McCamy Taylor
May 2014
#59