A Short Note On The Democratic Party And The Progressive Left....

[DirkGently]

225. The Democratic Party has moved right. It has moved left.

It can and will be moved, by the people in it, the facts at hand, and the effectiveness of the respective arguments and power struggles, on an ongoing basis.

The rest comes off as big pretentious straw man argument and a big dose of projection. Who is arguing by hyperbole? Who is telling moderates they don't count? On the contrary, there is plenty of rhetoric from the Third Way that the "professional left," etc. needs to butt out.

We're supposed to swallow that just the lefties are intolerant? "F*cking (intellectually challenged])?"

That's just specious. No one thinks that.

Of course moderates count. Centrists count. More liberal and progressive Democrats count.

Everyone gets to be in the party. Everyone gets to argue. Some days Democrats will claim Social Security is driving "the deficit" and must be drastically changed. On other days, Democrats will push back against another needless war, or a Wall Street elitist who'd like to run the Fed.

One thing, though. These swings are like a pendulum. And up until recently, the Democratic Party has been to its own extreme right.

When it hits the apex, the pendulum will return, sure as gravity.

Accepting THAT would be a lot more productive than trying to convince everyone lefties and progressives are too pushy and should simmer down.