And this is how the Democratic party gets pulled ever further rightward.

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179. The force is not with Charlie Crist

He is a symptom not a cause.

What is this "democratic party" of which you speak? You speak of it in terms that gives it a separate sentient existence, you almost give it a soul, in that this disembodied entity can make decisions distinct from its members, and somehow cause its members to comply. Parties do not lead. They are the product of the people who join them. They have no mind or free will.

Bottom line in a two party system is when you make one party smaller, the other gets bigger. This happens usually at first by moving the dividing line between the two.

There is no alternative state. Social change does not arise from political parties. Social change arises from the people and the political parties simply change as a byproduct of the fact that the members who create them now hold different opinions and priorities. Society is not a product of political parties. Political parties and their positions are the product of movements in the culture.

I have met Charlie Crist, and he is not capable of this in any dimension or direction.