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In reply to the discussion: It's not the right who's running the hit job on Joe Biden. [View all]ancianita
(43,415 posts)If she's the one, she may not speak for liberals in the Democratic Party.
No, it's not complicated. The Democratic Party is 100% liberal. It's so liberal that we argued for at least a year whether a Social Democrat like Bernie should even be accepted in it. We even argued whether we Democrats want national social services he wants because of all the Leftist baggage that he drags along with that.
You posted this on the Democratic Undergound. 95% of liberals are in and sympathetic to the Democratic Party. 5% of liberals are actual Lefties. Lefties don't reflect the Democratic Party. Your post implies that we Democrats are caught up with Lefties who would divide this liberal party. We're not.
I don't care about your arguing that conservatives didn't push this. Citing Krystal Ball,The Hill and Bernie's "spokesperson" is telling enough. Fine. However. The fact that you buy into the Lefties' idea that liberals are divided just won't wash with Democrats. You can't slip out of that reality by claiming you never said the word Democrat.
I'm okay that we have this back-and-forth about what makes a liberal liberal. Maybe it's even helpful in laying out who the source and audience are, and that Lefties are not really liberal. But I won't believe the divisive implications of this post.
I'm a Democrat first. And a liberal. They go together. The rest here -- is slickly constructed, conflict driven, divisive rhetorical hype, no matter where it came from. I won't buy what you post here.
Neither do clear thinking Democrats.
We are not what we are called. We are what we answer to. Now is the time for solidarity. Democrats have solidarity. This doesn't help.