DU has always had divisions and it always will

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1. I think that it is a combination of those feeling left out as the "fringe left"...

... now being a big part of the group that is being accused of siding with the libertarians and the right, when many of the things that are being done in our name that largely are a lot that we don't agree with are showing themselves to fail, opening up the party to more attacks by the right (a lot of which ARE ludicrous).

It is hard to separate ourselves from the ridiculous attacks by the right led by the criminal Issa, and yet still have room to criticize some very big failures that are following in the footsteps of the very things we were up in arms about when Bush did the same things when he was in charge (intelligence agencies activities, etc., more prosecutions of whistleblowers by far than banksters, etc.). And its hard not to react personally when many of us are lumped in with the right and our criticisms of what we've been yelling about for decades that the corporate elements of both parties are doing is being ignored still. Yes, many of us ARE getting angry, and feel justified at feeling that way.

And part of me wants to hold back on that anger, as I think some of the issues facing us (fixing Citizen United damage, fixing the fourth amendment, getting corruption out of government with public financing and IRV, etc., etc.) will involve us appealing o many on both sides of the aisle which seems impossible at times now. This isn't about lining up with others against Obama... It is about being heard and having others take seriously the need for big changes, which mostly those that haven't been tried are what we've been advocating for decades now.