Reply #399: Nah...I think it's the other way around...

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...the 'party insiders' have excluded the base. I think it's absolutely absurd that some Democrats don't seem to know who is in their 'base'. It's as if the New Democrats are being intentionally obtuse about it to give themselves an out when they pander to the phantom swing voters.

I've been a Democrat for over thirty years and the BASE has always been the same...that is until our party started moving to the right in the 90s and suddenly the base became the 'middle class' and the working classes became invisible.

The Dem leadership should just come right and say that they don't want to be the 'party of the people'. That way we can find a party that wants to fill this role and we can all stop pretending.