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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Something is wrong with the Democratic Party [View all]
It's the same thing wrong with all the progressive parties in liberal democracies that have abandoned their convictions and become RW light. I know a man who represents a leading party here. Even after the party lost a shocker he thought remaining in a particular position for 25 years was more important that taking responsibility for the loss. We talk about others' egos but our parties have the identical problem even if they are more subtle.
The first step is to get back to the party's core philosophical convictions and at the same time abandon all third way/ Blue dog folks.
I'd love to see how many of them voted for the Con. .
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The problem started when too many of our politicians started taking Wall Street and big corporate
Dustlawyer
Nov 2016
#27
Jesus, the way some people talk you would think there wasn't one working class person
boston bean
Nov 2016
#9
Interesting how some people talk like AA and Latinos and women are not the working class.
SunSeeker
Nov 2016
#28
I think the media is confusing overlapping constituencies of who were the "voters"
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2016
#21
Years of looking at a black president simmered in those groups and was fed by Trump.
ehrnst
Nov 2016
#20
It is also about celebrity worship. That's how Arnold became governor of California. nt
tblue37
Nov 2016
#45
Hmm. You mean abandon the coalitions that have made Democrats stray from the real reason we formed?
ehrnst
Nov 2016
#18
When "true progressive" comes at the expense of Reproductive health, and LGBTQ rights
ehrnst
Nov 2016
#56
When the Democrats gave up New Deal and Great Society principles to the DLC and Blue Dogs,
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#44
Koch brother fucking. Scott Walker. Wisconsin people like getting fucked by Republicans.
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#52
what does that have to do with Wisconsin slitting its own throat with Walker and Johnson?
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#77
WI had three opportunities to get ride of that fucker Walker and get rid of Johnson, who they don't
Feeling the Bern
Nov 2016
#76
No, it's bullshit, because lots of liberal and progressive candidates and issues have lost
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#81