There's something happening to the Democratic Party...

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38. Credit also goes to those who refused to be silent about the direction the party

was headed in despite being told constantly 'not now'. This gave courage to the real Progressive Dems within the Party also.

Deval Patrick said what most of us have been saying for a long time. And hopefully the Third Way contingency will be marginalized as they are the ones who have been dragging this party to the Right and forcing the capitulation of Dems to Right Wing bullying.

They lost in 2010 because a lot of Independents stayed home. And real Dems refused to be shut down when the wrong lesson was taken from that.

Dems could widen the gap between them and Republicans by being proud of Democratic policies, such as Social Security and never, ever again even consider the Republican/Third Way attempts to change it.

Everything good in this country came from Democratic ideas and it has been painful to watch this party be almost ashamed to shout that from every microphone they can get their hands on.