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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)understand--all too clearly--his motivations.
He doesn't care about "We The People." Not one bit.
He cares about himself, and his behavior demonstrates that quite clearly.
You watch RMoney tack left in the debates. Watch. I've seen him do it before. You can see it too--just go to Youtube and watch his gubernatorial debates and his hilarious attempt to debate Ted Kennedy for Ted's Senate seat. He'll veer left and some well-fed nitwit will say "Oh he's just saying that to get elected." But it will happen.
Our party treats the people who are loyal to the party well. It doesn't have time for scolds, shamers, people who yell but don't vote, and people who don't contribute--in time or money. They're more interested in motivating the already-inclined. Seriously, if the Democrats have to spend all their time begging and pleading, then there's no time left for care and feeding of the REAL base--which is not the people who are complaining that the party is not sufficiently left.
The fact of the matter is, like it or not, that the real base are senior citizens, minority communities, women, people who give a shit about essential social justice, a safety net for all, a living wage, decent schools, jobs, people who understand that more Scalias on the court will be a disaster, and--hate to break it to you-- these people, many of them, are those awful "centrists" that some people just love to hate. THAT's "the base"--not all of the crabbers and gripers who plan on withholding their vote because their causes aren't placed first in the pecking order of important stuff the Dems need to do.