Left bashing, hippie punching and red-baiting is ok it seems

[Warpy]

33. They never did, except among recovering Republicans and home grown Blue Dogs

and most of us who comprise "the left" are quite willing to return the punches, baiting and bashing.

One of my pet hates here is the way Blue Dogs so glibly toss out "the left" as the malcontents to blame for the defeat of conservative Democrats or the inability to get legislation past obstructionist Republicans.

The truth is that the blame belongs to conservatives. It's been long known that people will vote for a real Republican than a Democrat trying to sound like one. It's been long known that Republicans are balking at passing any legislation that would be over and done with in an hour when more sensible people from both parties were in Congress.

"The left" is not enough of a monolith to have accomplished much of anything in the last 35 years. It's a pity, we've been right about all of it.