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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)but they have never precinct walked, collected signatures, done a voter registration drive, volunteered to smile and dial for a candidate, driven any little old ladies to the polls...nothing, nada, zip.
They just gripe.
Now that is my experience, YMMV.
People keep whining about the DLC, but here's a little fact--the DLC does NOT EXIST ANYMORE. Stop punching at ghosts. The DLC came into being for the purposes of beating the GOP at their own game and they did succeed at that, even if they did have to jink right here and there to do it--but dammit, they WON. Which is a helluva lot more than some whining vegan playing Joan Baez as a campaign song would have done. We were able to acquire power and we DID get some shit done. As for the DLC, they are dead. Done. Kaput. No more. They did what they did, and then they went away. Their paperwork is in boxes at the Clinton Foundation--they are a piece of HISTORY.
So, sorry, I can't take listening to the DLC bugaboo argument. Say what you want about those guys, they played hardball, they acquired power, and they did what a bunch of gripers never were able to accomplish. That said, they're in the past. They're dead and buried. So are the nineties. Time marches on. We all need to keep up. I am old, but even I get that.