Obama Liberals Aren’t Buying the Media’s False Equivalency to Bush

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53. The problem is that sweet spot in the middle

What we have now is a Democratic party that knows that we don't want to turn the country over to Republicans. So they settle and make us settle for "Not as bad as the other guys" which means basically the Democratic party of 2013 is the Republican party of 1992 on a lot of issues (primarily economics, healthcare, education, poverty, income inequality, etc).

So how do we not "hand the country over to Republicans" but also push the party leftward back to some sense of reasonable, progressive sanity. How do we get them to make the case for progressive values and policies, especially since when detailed poll after detailed poll shows that when asked the specific questions on policies (rather than simply a "are you liberal or conservative&quot that people support those policies.

Especially when so many people in the party continue to take a "SHHHHH!! Speak no ill of our leaders!!!!" approach. Look where that got Republicans. They kept living inside of a bubble and rather than making sure their party and leader (Bush) expressed popular opinions in an easily digestable way (not that they had any, but still), they took the approach of everyone covering their ears and going "LALALALALALALALI CAN"T HEAR YOU!!!!!" and simply shouting down any dissent.

That's what our party is doing now and it's going to ruin a golden opportunity of finally knocking out a horrible, out of touch, out of step, idiotic Republican party. But instead of doing what is needed and contrasting our great policies with theirs, we have a leader who is too concerned with bipartisanship above all else, including what is good policy.