Those taking a strict "no Dem must be primaried" position may have a point...

[Ken Burch]

143. There's a distinction between rank-and-file Dems like you or I on that,

Who obviously do care about working people,

And those at the top of our party who sometimes make a big show of being "pro-business" and "fiscally conservative".

We don't have to be socialist as a party(though we don't have to be paranoid about the concept-it's becoming increasingly popular), and we don't need to spend for the sake of spending.

But it IS time that we started treating business as simply ONE part of life, not above and beyond everyone and everything else.

For the record, I acknowledge the last presidential result was not SIMPLY about class. There were a lot of people who voted for the other candidate because he pandered(and still panders) to hatred. But a segment voted out of economic despair, and a much LARGER group of people didn't vote at all because they(not ME, but they) didn't see as anymore as a party who cared about the poor and about those near the poor on the ladder.

The problem with being "middle of the road" politically is that there really isn't such a thing as "middle of the road" policies. There are policies that are good for the many and those good for the few. Almost no policies that are good for the wealthy are good for anybody else.

We can't win by being a party of the comfortable and of those wary of change. People like that are always going to vote against us.

What is so frightening about trying win by trying to win the argument? It's not as though it's impossible for progressive ideas to be more popular than reactionary ones.