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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)dragged this party, NOT THE VOTERS to the right, is on its last legs as far the game of 'appeal to the Left for the elections' then go right back to BUSINESS when you fool them into keeping you in power. It is stale now, rotting on the vine, the tactics that fooled people for so long. Too bad, and I so regret my own participation in it, we didn't wake up a long time ago.
As for your claim that that this is not a 'progressive country', excuse me and no offense, that is BS. Seen the polls recently on SS? Now there's a 'right wing progressive' policy for you
Anyone who touches it is going to regret it on both sides, amazing isn't it, Republicans love their SS too. Medicare, another 'right wing conservative' program
seen any polling on that?
Public Schools, another 'conservative, right wing program' :eyes'
Seen the polls on Congress, both sides of the aisle lately, and WHY they are so disastrously low?
Because all polls on the issues show that a majority of the American people WANT progressive policies. But the political parties make sure they don't get them.
How about NJ, when we Progressives were screaming that Christie could be beaten, that his handling of Sandy had already begun to anger people, (we kept hearing 'he's unbeatable because of Sandy', what lies they tell.
So, not the voters, but the Dem Party in NJ, 61 Dems helped get Christie elected, the DNC did nothing for the Progressive Candidate, all this leaving Dems in a BLUE STATE to wonder if the Progressive COULD win. Because they were lied to, they were told 'she can't win'.
And look what the voters got. If only we had two parties, at least one of which represented the people who want Progressive policies.
So, now we have another election coming up. Voters are no longer going to fall for the pretense that because someone has a D after their name, they are progressive.