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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who We Are [View all]H2O Man
(73,534 posts)58. Right.
To a large extent, during my lifetime, authoritarian republicans kept their voters inline. The "leaders" told the republican voters what they thought, what they should say, and who they were voting for. It's worked for them. Even today, when a lot of them support this "rebel" Trump, rather than machine Jeb, it's primarily because Trump out-alpha-dogged Jeb.
Democrats aren't supposed to be like that. We're not supposed to resort to the name-calling techniques in the primaries.
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I think there is a third possible reason for their "right wing attack" characterization
tk2kewl
Feb 2016
#4
Most of the "free thinking" Democratic Party seems to actively avoid debate/discussion these days.
MadDAsHell
Feb 2016
#17
If you came recently you picked an especially bad time. I lurked for years and it's usually...
MadDAsHell
Feb 2016
#27
Now your DU handle is clear...thank you for your work for all of these years and for this post.
libdem4life
Feb 2016
#54