Why Flag-Burning Bodes Ill for OWS

[Dragonfli]

121. Conservatives of all stripes hate the movement, Democratic cons maybe even more so

It reminds them that the party was not always just another employee of the banks and military establishment, a past that frightens them because it is the old traditional values of the party that people are attracted to and they DO NOT want those values back in the party nor do they want a movement that speaks to those values competing with them. The Third way, DLC or whatever handle their focus groups have them calling themselves these days prefer the new Democratic party that is largely a re-branding of the Republican Ideals of 1985.

Any Democrats that still remember the old days, like me, were once referred to as "middle of the road" Democrats, now we are derided as fringe leftist with dangerous ideas that will help the GOP win (without changing a single political belief)

The pearl clutching is to be expected, one must never allow a POV that is further to the left of Evan Bayh to gain traction or the Conservatives in the party will feel threatened and go after the source.

Why is it that so many heroes of the movement that were onced loved here are tossed under the bus for having a more progressive view than Timmy Geithner? Soon all liberal publications will be swear words here just like FDL, it is inevitable since so many republicans came over to the party under the DLC guise.