On liberal "purity".

[MadHound]

38. WHOOMP, there it is.

I must get real. That other smear that the "very serious people" in the party try to hang around the necks of the liberals, in order to be dismissive of us, to belittle us.

Well son, let's get real here. The liberals in this party have basically gone along to get along within the party for the past forty years, and just what has it gotten them? Very, very little. While all the other people in this big tent, DLC, Third Way, Big Business, all of these and more have been regularly fed and cared for, with choice pieces of legislation being dropped on their plate on a regular schedule. Yet if liberals dare to raise a voice in complaint, they are told to eat their peas. Hell, as a liberal I would absolutely love to have some peas on my plate to eat, but you know what, for the past forty years that plate has been pretty bare, with even the crumbs going away about twenty years ago.

You think that I, or other liberals in this coalition, don't want to work with others? WHERE IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK DLC, THIRD WAY AND CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS GET THE VOTES TO GET ELECTED AND THE SUPPORT TO PASS THEIR LEGISLATION? Oh, yeah, those pie in the sky, don't know how to compromise liberals who haul their sorry asses out every couple of years to do the grunt work and the heavy lifting, even though in many cases, if truth be told, they're working against their own best self interest.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT WE NEED TO MAKE COMMON CAUSE? How much more common cause do you want us liberals to make, give up our first born child to the party? You are apparently blind to the fact that it is the liberals in this party who've been bending over backwards to make common cause, time and again, just hoping for some sort of crumb, and getting nothing but scorn in return.

WAKE UP! Liberals aren't adverse to compromise or working together, we've been doing that for years and decades. The only difference now is that we're starting to wonder why we've been doing so much hard work for so long in return for so very little.