Why doesn't the Democratic Party have a platform anymore?

[Savannahmann]

73. We began to put party over principal.

We decided that electing Democrats was more important than what those Democrats stood for. We decided that gaining power, was the ends, not the means. We get the power, and then we do nothing with it except mimic the Rethug actions.

How often have you heard that if we had Nancy Pelosi as speaker again, we could get this legislation through, or that bill acted upon. Yet, when we had Nancy as speaker, we got nothing done, we had one minor victory, the Insurance Protection act, we called the ACA, and the Rethugs called Obamacare. We took no actions on Guns, none on Immigration, zero done on Gay Marriage. We didn't even come out against Don't Ask Don't Tell until Vice President Biden came out in one of his famous off the cuff blurted statements. Then two weeks later, after watching the rest of us shout and scream, the President decided he had evolved on the issue.

I have no idea what took so long, I guess they were checking statements and possible lines he could deliver with the polls and the focus groups.

We work to get those people elected who promise to fight for us, and once elected, they don't do squat. When we object, we get told that if we don't work just as hard to get them re-elected, then the Rethugs will win. OK, what's the difference if it's a Rethug administration or a Democratic Administration is illegally wiretapping everyone? We're still wiretapped illegally.