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In reply to the discussion: Dear Bernie supporters. Please. Stop! [View all]Craig234
(335 posts)Your logic is, the majority of the party always is the "genuine base" of the party.
In other words, the majority is never wrong.
So when FDR put the Japanese American population in internment camps, there could be no argument he had violated the party's values. The majority had spoken.
When Bill Clinton appointed people like Robert Rubin, and supported centrist/conservative/third way policies, such as slashing the budget for welfare, greatly increasing sentences for especially black people, and re-regulating Wall Street - that was our values.
There was no argument to be made that anything he did might not be lined up with the party's values - the majority had spoken.
So, when Frank Rich writes in "Listen, Liberal" that the party has moved to the right and abandoned the working class, he's just wrong, because the majority has spoken.
And when it's argued that our elections get corrupted by big money, buying massive advertising and marketing, with members of Congress spending half their time on the phone fundraising, over half going to lobbying when they leave - it's all wrong.
There's no problem, all those things are the party's values, the majority spoke and that's the end of the discussion.
And that's wrong. "The majority" is not always right. It gets to set the policies, but there's a reason the minority can talk.
Even though you call arguing for better values the luxury of whining, instead of letting you have the power without any challenge.